Kolkata: CPI(M) young turk Dipsita Dhar is disheartened at the RG Kar hospital rape-murder victim’s mother wanting to fight the West Bengal assembly elections on a BJP ticket, but says her emotional connect to the polls continues to centre around the cause of justice for the tortured medical intern. The 32-year-old Left candidate from the…
New Delhi: Hours before Chief Minister Rekha Gupta’s scheduled budget presentation, the Delhi Legislative Assembly received a bomb threat on Tuesday morning, police said. Police said nothing suspicious has been found so far after the assembly premises were checked, while adding that searches are still underway. The threat was received via an email to the…
Imphal: Security forces arrested 10 cadres of the banned Prepak (RA) near the India-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district, a police statement said on Tuesday. There are five minors among the arrested militants, it said. They were apprehended from an area between the border pillars 77 and 82 under the Moreh Police Station limits, the…
Mumbai: Maharashtra’s Forest Minister Ganesh Naik has said the state government had asked Reliance Foundation to accommodate leopards at its Vantara facility in Gujarat’s Jamnagar, and 25 big cats have already been relocated there. The population of leopards has risen four times in 10 years. The state, which had 101 tigers seven to eight years…
Prayagraj: At least four labourers were killed and 14 were injured after a portion of a cold storage collapsed in Chandapur village here on Monday afternoon, officials said, as rescuers sifted through the debris to search for survivors. The collapse also triggered an ammonia gas leak from the facility, and efforts were being made to…
Kolkata: The Election Commission on Monday approved the transfer and posting of returning officers for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, including for Bhabanipur, the constituency represented by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, an official said. In a letter to the chief electoral officer, the commission agreed to the state’s proposal for the reshuffle, according to…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India is moving forward with a renewed confidence and instead of postponing challenges, the country confronts them head-on. Addressing the TV9 Network Summit, Modi said that at a time when the world is fragmented into numerous camps, India has managed to build extraordinary bridges — from…
New Delhi: The government is “willing” to bring two bills in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament to ensure that the women’s reservation law is implemented before the completion of the delimitation exercise for Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies, sources said on Monday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah held separate meetings with NDA and non-Congress…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday to discuss the West Asia conflict’s impact on the global economy, with a particular focus on energy security. The Jaishankar-Rubio phone conversation came hours after US President Donald Trump extended Washington’s deadline by five days for Iran to…
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not condemning the continued US-Israeli air assaults on Iran as it slammed his statement in the Lok Sabha on the West Asia crisis, calling it “a master class in self-boasts, cowardice and partisan dialogue-baazi”. Expressing concern over the prime minister’s “invocation of Covid”…
