Patna: Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal on Saturday urged the Election Commission to conduct the upcoming assembly polls in one or two phases and ensure that faces of women turning up at booths in burqas were tallied with voter cards. Jaiswal, who led a BJP delegation that met the visiting EC team headed by Chief…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday blamed the “poor state” of education during the RJD rule as a major reason for the large-scale migration from Bihar and lauded the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government for improving the situation and setting the state on a path to progress. Speaking at the inauguration of a host…
New Delhi: Jal Shakti Minister C R Paatil rejected West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s allegations of “unilateral and wilful” release of water by the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) to flood parts of the state during Durga Puja, saying the actual discharge was less than half of what was claimed. Paatil, citing information from the…
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday announced that it will deliver essential commodities under the Public Distribution System directly to the homes of senior citizen and differently-abled family cardholders on October 5 and 6 ahead of the Diwali festival which falls on October 20. This doorstep delivery would be done under the ‘Thayumanavar’ Scheme…
New Delhi: India welcomes US President Donald Trump’s leadership as peace efforts in Gaza make decisive progress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. Modi referred to the indications of the release of Israeli hostages by Hamas and said it marks a significant step forward in efforts to restore peace in the region. He said…
New Delhi: Cyclone Shakhti, the first cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea in the post-monsoon season, was moving towards Dwarka off the Gujarat coast on Friday and was expected to intensify further, the weather office said. The cyclonic storm over the northeast Arabian Sea moved west-northwestwards with a speed of eight kmph during the last…
Chandigarh: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the BJP government in Haryana has ended the “kharchi-parchi” system that prevailed in the state earlier, wherein people could not get jobs without corruption or favouritism. The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader also said the people of Haryana have given their mandate to the saffron…
New Delhi: At least a dozen Pakistani military aircraft, including F-16 jets, were destroyed or damaged in Indian strikes during Operation Sindoor, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal A P Singh said on Friday while describing Islamabad’s claim of India’s losses as “fanciful stories”. The Air Chief Marshal said that Indian action also damaged…
New Delhi: India on Friday said Pakistan must be held accountable for its “horrific” human rights violations against innocent protesters in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK). Several areas in PoK have witnessed widespread protests with people demanding basic rights, justice, and an end to what they described as systemic oppression. “We have seen reports on protests in…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday warned that tools available in cyberspace can be used to “hack” young minds and spread anarchy. While the armed Maoist insurgency has been almost finished off in Maharashtra, one person “sitting in a room” and planting propaganda against India’s constitutional system in people’s minds poses a big…
