Tangdhar (J-K): The Chinar Corps of the Indian Army has destroyed military infrastructure at Leepa Valley in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), officials said. Indian Army officials estimate that it will take Pakistan 8-12 months to rebuild the infrastructure. During a visit by PTI to the Line of Control (LoC) in Tangdhar, a forward village in Jammu…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday expanded his five-month-old cabinet, with the induction of NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal as a minister. Bhujbal, 77, was sworn in by Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan at Raj Bhavan. Bhujbal, who has had a distinguished and eventful political career spanning several decades, was not included when Fadnavis…
New Delhi: The BJP-led Delhi government has reduced the annual MLA Local Area Development (LAD) Fund from Rs 15 crore to Rs 5 crore, officials have said. In October last year, the previous AAP government in Delhi enhanced the MLA LAD Fund from Rs 10 crore to Rs 15 crore, months ahead of the assembly…
Hardoi (UP): An attempt to derail two trains, including a Rajdhani Express, in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district was thwarted due to the alertness of loco pilots, police claimed on Tuesday. On Monday evening, unidentified miscreants tied wooden blocks using earthing wire to the track between Dalelnagar and Umartali stations at kilometre marker 1129/14, they said….
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told a parliamentary committee on Monday that the conflict between India and Pakistan was always in the conventional domain, and there was no nuclear signalling by the neighbouring country, sources said. The sources said Misri reiterated the government’s stand that the decision to stop military actions was taken at…
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Police constituted a three-member SIT late on Monday night to probe state minister Vijay Shah’s remarks against Col Sofiya Qureshi in compliance with a Supreme Court order, an official said. The Special Investigation Team comprises Inspector General of Police Pramod Verma, Deputy Inspector General Kalyan Chakravarty and Superintendent of Police Vahini Singh….
New Delhi: Parliament’s Standing Committee on External Affairs on Monday unanimously condemned the trolling of Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and praised him for his professional conduct. Misri was briefing the parliamentary panel, chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, on the India-Pakistan military conflict in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack. Tharoor told reporters after…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up Madhya Pradesh minister Vijay Shah for his remarks on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and constituted a three-member special investigation team to probe the FIR lodged against him. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh told the minister that it had seen his videos where…
Kolkata: Reaffirming her party’s support for the Union government on matters of external affairs, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday said her party was not boycotting the Centre’s multi-party diplomatic mission aimed at countering Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and would send its representatives once a formal request is received from the Centre. She stressed that the Centre…
Bengaluru: Heavy overnight rains severely affected parts of the city on Monday, leading to waterlogged roads, inundated residential areas, and traffic pile-up, as the city braces for more spells in the coming days. Bengaluru received 103 mm of rain in the last 24 hours, according to an IMD bulletin. The social media was flooded with…
