Narayanpur: An encounter broke out between security personnel and Naxalites in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Monday evening, a senior police official said. The gunfight started at around 4 pm in the forests of Abhujmaad along the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra inter-state border, he said. A joint team of security forces was involved in the exchange of fire…
Bengaluru: BJP MP Lahar Singh Siroya on Monday slammed the ruling Congress in Karnataka for targeting Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot. In a statement, Siroya said when the cases are piling up before the Governor, the Congress leaders are casting aspersions on Gehlot. “It is the old trick of the Congress party to attack the Constitutional authorities…
New Delhi: AAP leader Atishi took charge as the eighth chief minister of Delhi on Monday and said she would work like Bharat did by keeping his elder brother Lord Ram’s ‘khadaun’ (wooden slippers) on Ayodhya’s throne. She did not sit on the chair used by Kejriwal and said that his chair would remain unoccupied…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday suggested that Parliament should seriously consider bringing an amendment to the POCSO Act for substituting the term “child pornography” with “child sexual exploitative and abuse material” with a view to reflect more accurately the reality of such offences. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice…
Chennai: Kiran Rao’s “Laapataa Ladies” has been picked as India’s official entry for Oscars 2025, the Film Federation of India announced here on Monday. The Hindi film, a light-hearted satire on patriarchy, was chosen from a list of 29 films, including Bollywood hit “Animal”, Malayalam National Award winner “Aattam” and Cannes winner “All We Imagine…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it will hear on October 1 a case it has initiated on its own following the rape and murder of a resident doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata amid the ongoing protests by doctors in West Bengal. At the outset of the…
Lucknow: Ahead of the assembly elections in Haryana, BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday urged Dalit leaders to sever ties with the Congress and other “casteist parties” and follow the path laid down by Dr BR Ambedkar. The comments come amid attempts by the alliance of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Indian National Lok…
Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh): The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Monday appealed to the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognisance of Tirupati laddu adulteration allegations and launch a probe to identify the culprits. The Kendriya Margdarshak Mandal of VHP met at Tirupati and took this decision. It was attended by VHP’s international secretary Bajrang Bagra…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Anura Kumara Dissanayake for his victory in the Sri Lankan presidential election and said he looks forward to working closely with him to further strengthen the Indo-Lanka multifaceted cooperation. Marxist leader Dissanayake was declared the winner of the Sri Lankan presidential election by the country’s Election…
Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake soon after he was sworn in on Monday. Popularly known as AKD, 56-year-old Marxist leader Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s ninth president by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. He defeated his closest rival Sajith Premadasa…
