New Delhi: The Indian Air Force has carried out an activation of an Emergency Landing Facility airstrip on a national highway in Andhra Pradesh’s Bapatla district, showcasing high level of “synergy and liaison” between the IAF and civil agencies. The activation was conducted on March 18, a senior IAF official said on Tuesday. The 4.1…
Palakkad (Kerala): Asserting the importance that the BJP-led NDA has given to Kerala in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a massive roadshow here on Tuesday to boost support for its candidates from the state, where the saffron party has historically had no significant electoral victories. The PM’s cavalcade with Modi…
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed that about three-five lakh people will apply for Indian citizenship under the CAA in the state, asserting that the applicants will comprise only those who were excluded from the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC). He also said that seven lakh Muslims and five lakh Hindu-Bengalis,…
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a roadshow here on Monday, amid non-stop chants of ‘Modi, Modi’ by BJP workers and he paid floral tributes to the portraits of 58 people killed here in the 1998 serial bomb blast. The roadshow, amid tight police security, comes days after the Madras High Court green-flagged…
Kolkata: At least seven people, including two women, were killed and 15 others were injured after an under-construction five-storeyed building, alleged to be an illegal structure, collapsed in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata in the wee hours of Monday. A search operation is in progress to locate additional survivors possibly trapped beneath the debris….
New Delhi: Stepping up its attack on the Centre over the electoral bondds issue, the Congress on Monday accused the Modi government of “hafta vasuli” (extortion) and claimed that a total of 21 firms that have faced investigations from the CBI, ED, or IT, have donated through electoral bonds. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said…
Thiruvanthapuram: As the campaign for the Lok Sabha polls intensified, Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, V D Satheesan, on Monday accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of attempting to create “a space” for the BJP in the southern state. Speaking to reporters in Attingal near here, Satheesan also asserted that…
New Delhi: Seeking to ensure level-playing field in Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission on Monday ordered the removal of home secretaries of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, sources said. It also ordered the removal of the West Bengal director general of police, they added. Also, the secretary of the general…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the regular bail plea of AAP leader Satyendar Jain in a money laundering case. A bench of justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal asked Jain, who is out on interim bail, to surrender forthwith. The top court rejected an oral request by Jain’s counsel to allow…
New Delhi: In projection of India’s growing maritime power, the Indian Navy executed a dramatic mid-sea operation ending a three-month hijacking of a bulk carrier with deployment of its warship INS Kolkata, long-endurance Sea Guardian drones, P-8I surveillance aircraft and airdropping of elite MARCOS commandos from a C-17 plane. The Navy seized the former Maltese-flagged…
