School van driver held for Pakistan contacts on phoneJAMMU: Security forces seized a suspected IED-type box containing two grenades in Sunderbani belt of J&K’s Rajouri district Friday, prompting troops to cordon off the area. The recovery came a day after a school van driver was detained in Jammu over three Pakistani contacts on his cellphone.“Locals…
NEW DELHI: Several coal-based power plants with a combined capacity of 10 gigawatts (GW) have deferred their scheduled maintenance by three months to meet the country’s electricity demand, while an additional load of up to 27 GW is expected at the distribution level due to the shift towards induction-based cooking amid a squeeze on LPG…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday accused the BJP of using the Election Commission during bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, saying that the party uses institutions when it begins to lose on real issues.“Election commissions are working at the behest of the BJP. Of all the bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, the Election Commission…
Union home minister Amit Shah (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday strongly trashed the rumours spreading like wildfire over a purported video of controversial ex-TMC leader Humayun Kabir allegedly claiming a “Rs 1,000 crore deal” with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to dislodge Mamata Banerjee‘s ruling Trinamool in West Bengal…
Some in India are chafing at Pakistan’s mediator role inIran war. They should think a bit more. It’s a ceasefire where combatant parties aren’t ceasing to fire – andit may get worse. Hormuz is more shut than open. Whether the US-Iran meet in Islamabad will happen is still not absolutely certain.And if it happens, whether…
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday participated in a signature campaign at Delhi University’s (DU) Faculty of Arts in support of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam (Women’s Reservation Act), where she highlighted the need to enhance women’s participation in governance and policymaking.Speaking on the act, Gupta said, “I often wonder why we all need…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday claimed that the Narendra Modi-led government’s proposed move to amend the women’s reservation law and expand the number of parliamentary seats could violate the Model Code of Conduct and have “grave consequences”. He also asserted that the opposition will move unitedly on this.Addressing a meeting of the…
‘Nirmam Sarkar’ vs ‘Snake’: TMC-BJP war of words intensifies as West Bengal heads for assembly polls NEW DELHI: The war of words between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP intensified on Friday as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee likened the saffron party to a snake, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi dubbed the…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee broke into a traditional dance at an election rally in Tentulia, drawing cheers and claps from the crowd gathered at Tentulia High School in North 24 Parganas. ‘Even snake can be trusted, but not BJP’ Addressing the gathering the Trinamool Congress chief warned voters: “Even a snake…
Union home minister Amit Shah (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday declared that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would implement the RSS and his party’s ambitious Uniform Civil Code (UCC) once they are voted to power in high-stakes West Bengal elections.Shah, who has pulled out all the stops ahead of…
