‘Old’ explosive kills civilian in Baramulla SRINAGAR: A civilian was killed Saturday after coming into contact with an “old explosive object” that went off in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.The deceased was identified as Zubair Ahmad Bajjad, a resident of Chandoosa area near the Line of Control (LoC) where instances of old mines going off are…
NEW DELHI: Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee‘s loyalist Dola Sen on Saturday lodged two police complaints against the rebel TMC MLAs, alleging “forgery of the party symbol and impersonation of the name All India Trinamool Congress.”This comes as the Ritabrata Banerjee-led breakaway TMC faction met Kolkata’s former councillors for the second time in…
NEW DELHI: A day after the government released the names of six soldiers killed in action during Operation Sindoor, the Centre on Saturday rejected the opposition’s accusation that defence minister Rajnath Singh had told Parliament in July last year that security forces had suffered no casualties.In a statement, the defence ministry said that Rajnath’s address…
File photo: Uddhav Thackeray, Amit Shah, Devendra Fadnavis (PTI) NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday alleged that the BJP‘s so-called “Operation Tiger”—the defection of six Lok Sabha MPs from his faction to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena earlier this week—was aimed at keeping Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, a BJP member,…
Kishan Reddy also accused Congress, AIMIM of linking revision to religion NEW DELHI: Union coal minister G Kishan Reddy on Saturday accused Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy of attempting to provoke Muslims, disturb law and order and derail the Election Commission‘s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.Addressing reporters in…
Shashi Tharoor (File photo) NEW DELHI: After Congress MP Rahul Gandhi completed two years as leader of the opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, senior party MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday wished him “strength and courage” in his “fight for the future of India.”“All the best to Shri @RahulGandhi ji as he completes two years…
NEW DELHI: Union minister of state for agriculture Bhagirath Choudhary on Saturday refuted charges of taking a subsidy of nearly Rs 1 crore from his own ministry and said that he had “hidden nothing” and had applied for the subsidy years before becoming a minister.Speaking to news agency ANI, Choudhary claimed that he has been…
Rahul Gandhi writes to Congress functionaries NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday wrote to party functionaries, urging them to turn the student campaign launched by the party’s youth and student wings – Indian Youth Congress and NSUI – into a “countrywide movement.”The letter was addressed to Congress general secretaries, state in-charges, and heads…
Arvind Kejriwal (File photo) NEW DELHI: Following the postponement of an entrance examination due to suspected paper leak in BJP-led Maharashtra, AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday accused the saffron party of “sparing neither the exams nor the temples.“The former Delhi chief minister appeared to allude to the recent NEET-UG paper leak controversy and…
Uddhav Thackeray revives ’50 khokha’ jibe at Eknath Shinde after 2022 split NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday revived his “50 khokha” jibe at Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, questioning what the “rate” of MPs would be after claiming MLAs were allegedly bought for Rs 50 crore during the 2022…