Category: National

New Delhi: Tri-service Exercise Trishul has commenced with mission-focused validations to strengthen integrated readiness across multiple domains, the defence ministry said on Saturday. The exercise covers electronic warfare, cyber, drone and counter-drone operations, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as well as air defence control and reporting, it said in a statement. The exercise reaffirms the tri-services’…

New Delhi:  Several opposition parties slammed the BJP-led Union government on Saturday over the 2016 demonetisation exercise, terming it a “disastrous Tughlakian decision” and the “biggest fraud on Indians” that devastated the livelihoods of crores of people and crippled trade. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation on November 8, 2016, stopping the currency notes of…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday advocated for simplifying the language of law so that it is easily understood by the local populace and said ease of justice must be ensured for every citizen, irrespective of their social or financial background. Addressing the inaugural function of a national conference on strengthening legal aid…

Purnea (Bihar): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav were “hell-bent” on making Bihar’s Seemanchal region a “den” of infiltrators, and asserted that the Centre will detect and identify every illegal immigrant, delete their names from electoral rolls and deport them. Addressing back-to-back election rallies…

Panaji: The country’s first Vande Bharat train sleeper coach maintenance facility will be ready by mid-2026 at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, according to a senior North Western Railway official. North Western Railway’s Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer, Major Amit Swamy, said the state-of-the-art facility at Bhagat Ki Kothi Railway station is being constructed at Rs 360 crore….

Patna: The final turnout in the first phase of the Bihar assembly polls is 65.08 per cent, the highest in the state’s history, the Election Commission said. A total of 3.75 crore people were eligible to cast their votes at 45,341 polling stations, including 36,733 in rural areas, on November 6 to decide the electoral…

Sitarmrahi (Bihar): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday claimed that people were not voting for the RJD-helmed opposition in Bihar as they fear that if the INDIA bloc was voted to power, the regime would put a ‘katta’ (country-made firearm) at their heads. In contrast, the PM told a rally in Sitamarhi district of the…

Srinagar: Two unidentified terrorists were killed as the Army foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday. The Army’s Srinagar-based Chinar Corps said an operation was launched on Friday based on specific intelligence inputs from agencies about an infiltration attempt in Keran…

Varanasi (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday flagged off four new Vande Bharat Express trains here from the Banaras railway station. The new Vande Bharat Express trains will operate on the Banaras-Khajuraho, Lucknow-Saharanpur, Firozpur-Delhi and Ernakulam-Bengaluru routes. The semi-high-speed trains will significantly reduce travel time between major stations, enhance regional mobility, promote tourism and…

New Delhi:  The Congress hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday after he attacked the party over the dropping of stanzas from “Vande Mataram” in 1937, saying Rabindranath Tagore himself had suggested that the first two stanzas of the song be adopted, and it was “shameful” of the prime minister to accuse the…