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…
Banka/Bhagalpur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that BJP leaders, who had exercised their franchise in Delhi, also cast votes in the first phase of the Bihar assembly polls. Gandhi, addressing election rallies in Banka and Bhagalpur, also asserted that the Congress produced evidence of “vote chori” (vote theft) in the Haryana polls, and…
Mumbai: Operation Sindoor has been a very big inflection point as far as India’s policy is concerned, former Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane (Retd) said on Friday. Speaking at the CNBC-TV18 Global Leadership Summit 2025 in Mumbai, Gen Naravane also said India made it clear that it will not differentiate between terrorists and those…
New Delhi: The government on Friday said that clandestine and illegal nuclear activities were “in keeping with Pakistan’s history”, responding to US President Donald Trump’s recent comments that Islamabad was among countries secretly testing nuclear weapons. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “Clandestine and illegal nuclear activities are in keeping with Pakistan’s…
Aurangabad (Bihar): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the record turnout in first phase of Bihar assembly polls was proof that people have reposed their trust in the “track record of Narendra and Nitish”. Modi made the prediction of the victory of the NDA, led in Bihar by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the…
