NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday intensified his confrontation with the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of shielding “vote chors” and blocking investigations into alleged large-scale voter deletions. At a press conference in the capital, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha presented what he described as…
NEW DELHI: A woman Naxalite, wanted in nine cases of violence and carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh, was killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Thursday. The gun battle took place in the morning on a forested hill between Gufdi and Permapara villages under Gadiras police station limits….
KS Alagiri (L), Kangana Ranuat (File photos) Congress leader KS Alagiri on Thursday triggered controversy after saying that actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut “should be slapped” if she visited Tamil Nadu.“A few months ago, when she went to an airport, a lady police officer slapped her. The police officer gave a reason that wherever…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party MP Anurag Thakur questioned whether Congress won Aland assembly seat in 2023 by “vote chori” after leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged mass voter deletions in Karnataka constituency. “According to the records, it was the Congress candidate from the Aland assembly constituency who had won….
PM Modi and Nepal interim PM Sushila Karki NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reaffirmed India’s support to Nepal’s new interim leadership, saying he had a “warm conversation” with Interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki.In a post on X, PM Modi said, “Had a warm conversation with Mrs. Sushila Karki, Prime Minister of the…
India urges UN to stop terror Pakistan-based threats in Afghanistan India on Wednesday urged the international community to ensure that UN-designated terrorist groups, including Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, along with their facilitators, do not exploit Afghan territory for terrorist activities.Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador…
NAGPUR: Day after Maoist call for truce, five C-60 commando teams and a CRPF battalion cordoned off a guerrilla hideout in the dense Modaske forests in Gadchiroli’s Etapalli tehsil and shot dead two dreaded women commanders, who carried a cumulative bounty of Rs 14 lakh, reports Soumitra Bose.The high-stakes jungle encounter slashed Maoist ranks in…
NEW DELHI: The prospects of early resumption of talks between the Centre and the Apex Body, Leh (ABL) on the latter’s demand for safeguards for Ladakh, have brightened with ABL agreeing to drop political parties’ representatives from its negotiating team and veteran leader Thupstan Chhewang consenting to lead the dialogue once again.Chhewang and Congress leader…
US President Donald Trump (ANI) US President Donald Trump has identified China, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and 19 other nations as major drug transit or major illicit drug producing countries, warning that their activities threaten the safety of the United States.In a Presidential Determination submitted to Congress on Monday, Trump listed these countries as sources or…
RUDRAPUR: The body of a 14-year-old girl with a broken hand and bearing multiple stab wounds was found lying in a sugarcane field, 150m from her home in a village in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district Tuesday. The accused, a 20-year-old from the same village, was arrested Wednesday. According to police, the Class 8 student…
