Balramplur (UP): Two women were killed in separate wildlife attacks in the Sohailwa forest area along the India-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur district, prompting the administration to order heightened surveillance and awareness measures, officials said on Saturday. According to forest department sources, a 20-year-old Nepalese woman, identified as Urmila, a resident of Amoli village…
Kolkata: TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday said that the Election Commission must come out with the number of illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas out of the 58.20 lakh names deleted after the publication of draft electoral rolls in West Bengal under the ongoing SIR. Alleging that Bengal was being targeted selectively by the Centre since…
Valsad (Gujarat): Women have proved that whenever they get equal opportunities, they perform as well as or even better than men, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. After inaugurating the Shrimad Rajchandra Sarvamangal Centre of Excellence for Women at Dharampur in Gujarat’s Valsad district, Singh said the legacy left behind by Jain spiritual leader…
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh has sparked a fresh political controversy after publicly praising the organisational strength of the BJP and its ideological mentor, the RSS, remarks that come just a week after he flagged the need for internal reforms within the Congress to Rahul Gandhi. On Saturday morning,…
Hyderabad: The BJP state unit president, N. Ramachander Rao, has appointed Neelakantam Alekya Pratap as the District Secretary of the Secunderabad Mahankali District. According to a press release, Alekya Pratap received congratulatory messages from Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy and Dr. K. Laxman, MP and President of the BJP’s National OBC Morcha. Expressing gratitude for…
Karachi: Pakistani security forces have killed at least 13 terrorists belonging to outlawed insurgent groups in different intelligence-based operations in the troubled Balochistan province, the ISPR said Saturday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing, these terrorists were killed in two operations conducted on December 24 and 25 in the Kohlu…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, paying tribute to Guru Gobind Singh on his birth anniversary on Saturday, said the tenth Sikh guru’s struggle against injustice and unrighteousness inspires people to remain steadfast on the path of truth and fearlessness. In an X post in Hindi, Adityanath said, “On the sacred Prakash Purab (birth…
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has restored the ‘honour’ of a 72-year-old former CISF officer, who was forced to retire 20 years ago over allegations of sexually harassing a woman colleague, saying the complaint appeared to be motivated. The high court said the charge levelled against the petitioner was not proved, and even if…
Chennai: BJP’s attempt to incite communal hatred through the Thirupparankundram lamp lighting issue failed and it appears that Lord Murugan was not on their side, Tamil Nadu HR & CE Minister P K Sekar Babu claimed on Saturday. All such attempts to divide the people on communal lines will not yield success under Chief Minister…
Dhaka: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday visited Dhaka University and offered prayers at the grave of slain student leader Sharif Osman Hadi amid heavy security. The 60-year-old BNP leader also offered prayers at the grave of Bangladesh’s national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, located beside the Dhaka University Central Mosque, The…
