Mumbai: Amid growing demand to demolish Aurangzeb’s tomb, opposition Shiv Sena(UBT) on Wednesday attacked the BJP, claiming that the ruling party considers the Mughal emperor more important than Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. It also said the Centre should remove the protected monument tag of Aurangzeb’s tomb, located in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, to prevent riots and cool down…
Mehsana: Residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Willaims’ ancestral village in Gujarat’s Mehsana district burst into celebrations on Wednesday morning as a SpaceX capsule carrying her and her colleague Butch Wilmore splashed down off the Florida coast. All eyes were on Willaims’s safe return as those in Jhulasan gathered at a village temple to view the…
Bengaluru: BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal was booked for his alleged derogatory remarks about Kannada actress Ranya Rao, who was recently arrested in a gold smuggling case, police said. Based on a complaint from Akula Anuradha, the case was registered at the High Grounds police station here under Section 79 (Word, gesture, or act intended…
Nagpur: Relatives of individuals from violence-hit areas in Nagpur are struggling to understand how their family members ended up in hospitals and are now battling for their lives. Imran Ansari, a resident of Bade Nawaz Nagar, is in shock over the critical condition of his elder brother, Irfan Ansari. Irfan, a welder by profession, left…
New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday conceded that he was left with “an egg on his face” in opposing India’s stance when the Russia-Ukraine war broke out and said due to the policy that was adopted, the country is now in a position where it can make a difference to lasting peace. Tharoor…
Patna: Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi on Tuesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate, which has also summoned her husband and RJD president Lalu Prasad and their son Tej Pratap Yadav for questioning in the land-for-jobs money laundering case, official sources said. Devi reached the ED office on Bank Road here along with her MP…
Nagpur: At least 45 persons have been arrested in connection with the violence in Nagpur during which 34 police personnel and five other persons suffered injuries, district guardian minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Tuesday. Two of the injured persons were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in a hospital here, Bawankule told reporters at…
New Delhi: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday accused the BJP-led Centre of systematically undermining of the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA, and demanded raising of minimum wage under it to Rs 400 per day and the number of guaranteed workdays to 150 a year. Raising the issue through a Zero Hour mention in the…
New Delhi: Describing the recently-concluded Mahakumbh at Prayagraj as an important milestone, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha that the event is a befitting response to those who questioned India’s capability to organise such a large congregation. Making a statement in the Lok Sabha, Modi said the entire world witnessed the…
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday gave a call to develop the Delhi Vidhan Sabha as a “model” Assembly, and urged the newly-elected MLAs to upskill themselves with modern technology tools such as Artificial Intelligence. Inaugurating a two-day orientation program for Delhi MLAs at the Vidhan Sabha, Birla said people have high…
