NEW DELHI: CPI(Maoist) central committee member Modem Balakrishna, killed in a counter-Naxal operation in Gariaband district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday, was arrested thrice – at Bhadrachalam in 1984, in Mahabubnagar in 1987 and in Kurnool district in 1993.Balakrishna is the sixth central committee member to be neutralised this year. The others eliminated are Chalapathi (in…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will address the international conference on India’s manuscript heritage on Friday and also launch the ‘Gyan Bharatam’ portal, a dedicated digital platform to accelerate manuscript digitisation, preservation and public access.The PMO highlighted the three-day conference, which began on Thursday under the theme ‘Reclaiming India’s Knowledge Legacy through Manuscript Heritage’, will…
LUCKNOW: Amid the ongoing unrest in Nepal, a batch of pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh faced tense moments when miscreants attacked their bus near Kathmandu Thursday morning, looted their belongings and left several of them injured.According to police, the pilgrims were returning from a visit to Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu when their bus, bearing a UP…
JAMMU/SRINAGAR: J&K continues to be on the edge over the detention of AAP legislator from Doda, Mehraj Malik, under the Public Safety Act (PSA). While a low-intensity blast on Thursday morning triggered panic in Jammu’s Doda town, which already remains tense, high drama unfolded in Srinagar when police locked the circuit house gates to prevent…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday held talks with Polish Deputy Prime Minister and counterpart Radosław Sikorski on recent security concerns in Poland.Jaishankar reiterated that India supports an early end to hostilities and a durable solution to the Ukraine conflict.Sharing a post on X, Jaishankar said, “Spoke to Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski…
PM Modi and his mother Heeraben Modi (File photo) NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday slammed the Congress over an AI-generated video featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother Heeraben, accusing the party of taking a vow to “repeatedly insult” her. The clip was posted by the Bihar unit of the Congress.“The Congress…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Thursday accused the government and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) of politicising security concerns surrounding leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, after the force wrote to him and party chief Mallikarjun Kharge highlighting repeated violations of security protocols during his foreign trips.On CRPF writing to Rahul Gandhi for allegedly violating…
Vidyant Hindu PG College, Lucknow, marked the anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s historic address at the World Parliament of Religions and Mahatma Gandhi’s launch of the Satyagraha Movement in Africa with a special lecture series titled “Development of Human Civilization in the 21st Century.” The event was organised by the Department of Hindi at the Vivekananda…
NEW DELHI: Security forces on Thursday neutralised 10 Naxals, including a senior CPI (Maoist) member, in a major anti-Naxal operation in Chhattisgarh’s Gariyaband, police said. “10 Naxals, including CPI (Maoist) central committee member Manoj alias Modem Balkrishna, neutralised by security forces,” news agency ANI quoted Gariaband SP Nikhil Rakhecha as saying. Poll Do you believe…
CP Radhakrishnan demits office; Gujarat governor Acharya Devvrat gets additional charge of Maharashtra NEW DELHI: Gujarat governor Acharya Devvrat has been appointed to discharge the functions of the governor of Maharashtra following C P Radhakrishnan’s election as India’s next Vice-President. In a statement on Thursday, Rashtrapati Bhavan said, “Consequent upon demitting the office of Governor…
