Bengaluru: Liquor bottles were allegedly distributed to people who attended a thanksgiving programme organised to celebrate the victory of BJP’s K Sudhakar from Chikkaballapura Lok Sabha segment, according to sources. Videos of people being handed liquor bottles with police personnel and “bouncers” around managing the crowd amid barricades, have gone viral on social media. According…
Ssilchar: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that he stands with the people of Assam and is their ”soldier in Parliament”. He urged the Centre to extend all possible help and support to the state immediately. ”I stand with the people of Assam, I am their soldier in Parliament, and…
Puri (Odisha): Highlighting the recent spate of terrible heatwaves in India and frequent extreme weather events around the globe, President Droupadi Murmu asked people on Monday to take smaller and local steps to protect the environment for a better tomorrow. In a note on the social media platform ‘X’ after visiting the seashore in this…
New Delhi: The Delhi police on Sunday registered an FIR against TMC MP Mahua Moitra over an alleged “derogatory” social media post targeting National Commission for Women chief Rekha Sharma. The Krishnanagar MP has been booked under Section 79 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), which pertains to actions intended to outrage the modesty of…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday alleged that the Modi government had accentuated India’s “unemployment crisis” with the decimation of job-creating MSMEs through the “Tughlakian demonetisation, a hastily rushed GST, and rising imports from China”. In a statement, Congress general secretary, in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh cited a new report by Citigroup, a global…
Srinagar: Six militants and two soldiers have been killed in two ongoing encounters between militants and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district. Director General of Police (DGP) RR Swain reported that six militants have been killed in these twin encounters. “Based on confirmed identifications, six militants have been killed in the twin gunfights…
New Delhi: Excellent work of Indians across various fields and enthusiasm to make India a developed nation is the country’s biggest strength, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said. In a written message to the Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO) on the seventh foundation day of its incubation innovation fund, Modi said that the kind of…
Noida: Devprakash Madhukar, the main accused in Hathras stampede, was arrested from Delhi by Uttar Pradesh Police which claimed he was the main organiser-fundraiser for the July 2 ‘satsang’ and suspected that self-styled godman Bhole Baba’s events were “funded” by a political party. Claiming that some political parties had recently contacted Madhukar, the police said…
Thiruvananthapuram: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar on Saturday lashed out at Congress leader P Chidambaram over his comment that the three new criminal laws were “drafted by part-timers”, terming it as “inexcusable” and urging him to withdraw his “derogatory, defamatory and insulting” observation. Dhankar said he was “shocked beyond words” when in the morning he read…
Lucknow: A Labour Party candidate’s landslide victory in the UK general elections sparked celebrations thousands of kilometres away in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur and Gorakhpur. Navendu Mishra, elected to the House of Commons for a second consecutive term from the Stockport constituency, was born in Kanpur in 1989. His mother’s paternal home is in Gorakhpur. Mishra’s…
