New Delhi: BJP’s Raja Iqbal Singh is elected Delhi’s new mayor on Friday (April 25) as the saffron party returned to power in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) after two years. Iqbal defeated Congress candidate Mandeep Singh to grab the top civic body post. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) boycotted the mayoral election. As…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday refused to issue notice to Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and others in the National Herald money laundering case for now. Special judge Vishal Gogne was acting on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which claimed cognisance of the complaint (ED’s equivalent to a chargesheet)…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday called up the chief ministers of all the states and asked them to ensure that no Pakistani stays in India beyond the deadline set for leaving the country, sources said. India on Thursday announced revoking all visas issued to Pakistani nationals from April 27 and advised…
Bhubaneshwar: Odisha Police arrested three persons, including two serving Navy personnel in Khurda district, on the charge of extorting money from Agniveer aspirants during a recruitment drive in November 2024, an officer said on Friday. The arrested persons were identified as Satyam Chahar, currently working at INS Kesari, Andaman and Nicobar, Vinay Kumar Ray, presently…
Mumbai: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said terrorists killed people in Pahalgam after asking about their religion, and Hindus would never do such a thing. “We hope for a strong response,” he said at a public event here on Thursday, three days after 26 people, most of them tourists, died in the terrorist attack in…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will attend the state funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican City this week, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. Murmu will pay a two-day visit to Vatican City beginning Friday. “President Droupadi Murmu will be visiting Vatican City on April 25 to 26 to attend the state…
New Delhi: India on Thursday informed Pakistan of its decision to keep the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance with immediate effect, saying Pakistan has breached the conditions of the treaty. Sustained cross-border terrorism by Pakistan targeting Jammu and Kashmir impedes India’s rights under the Indus Waters Treaty, India’s Secretary of Water Resources, Debashree Mukherjee, said…
New Delhi: Leaders across party lines on Thursday called for decisive action against terrorism and terror camps, and assured the government of their full support, even as some opposition parties flagged security lapses in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, where 26 people were gunned down by terrorists. During an all-party meeting to discuss the April 22…
Madhubani: In a stern message, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India will identify, track, and punish every terrorist and their backers who were responsible for the attack in Pahalgam “beyond their imagination”. “Today, from the soil of Bihar, I say to the whole world that India will identify, track, and punish every terrorist…
Kyiv: A large-scale Russian missile and drone attack hit Kyiv overnight, killing nine people and injuring another 63, including six children, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday. The Kyiv City Military Administration said on its Telegram channel that Russia struck Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles. Fires were reported in several residential buildings, said Tymur Tkachenko, the…
