New Delhi: Cyclone Biparjoy, packing maximum sustained winds with speeds of up to 145 kmph, is swirling towards the Gujarat coast and is made landfall near Jakhau port in Kutch district. With the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a warning about the “extensive damaging potential” of the cyclone, authorities have already evacuated around 74,000 people…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday stepped up the attack against the BJP over the arrest of his cabinet colleague V Senthil Balaji, while the state human rights commission said it will look into Balaji’s allegations of alleged ill-treatment at the hands of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) during his arrest. Earlier, a…
Pune: The Bharatiya Janata Party will win more than 350 seats in next year’s Lok Sabha elections and it is people’s wish that Narendra Modi take oath as the prime minister for the third time, said Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday. Speaking to PTI on the sidelines of a press conference…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday decided to repeal the anti-conversion law brought in by the previous BJP government. The government will introduce a bill in this regard in the upcoming legislature session, which starts on July 3. “The Cabinet discussed the anti-conversion bill. We have approved the bill to repeal the changes that were brought…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday expressed concern over the fire incident at a coaching institute in northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar in which some students sustained minor injuries. Students of the coaching institute escaped though windows, and used ropes and ladders to climb down from the top floor. Kejriwal said there was…
Imphal: At least two houses were set on fire by a mob here on Thursday afternoon a day after an attack in the Khamenlok area left nine people dead and injured ten others, officials said. Security forces which tried to quell the mob were forced to use force and fired tear gas shells at the…
Gwalior: Two conservancy workers died reportedly of asphyxiation on Thursday after entering a manhole in Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, an official said. The incident took place while two contract workers were engaged in cleaning a sewage line in Resham Mill area, Gwalior Municipal Corporation commissioner Harsh Singh said. “The person who entered the manhole first…
New Delhi: The Delhi University is planning to develop the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute (VPCI) into a multispeciality hospital, Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh said Thursday. Started in the 1950s, the Patel Chest Institute has sent a proposal to the Government of India to make it a full-fledged medical college. “We have Patel Chest Institute. We wish…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation of a developed India by creating world-class infrastructure in nine years of his government. Shah also said that from completing languishing projects to implementing new ones with unprecedented speed, India emerged as the global supply chain leader in…
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Thursday filed a final report before a court here seeking cancellation of a sexual harassment case filed by a minor wrestler against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh. The police report claimed that no corroborative evidence was found in the allegations levelled by the minor. The court has put up the matter…
