New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of attacking democratic institutions to undermine people’s trust in the electoral process, claiming he was doing so to pre-empt his party’s defeat in the upcoming elections, as he cannot garner public support. This came after Gandhi launched a fresh attack on the ruling BJP,…
Jaipur: Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma announced on Friday that the Rajasthan government will send 50,000 senior citizens on pilgrimage by AC trains this year. Sharma was speaking at the launch of the ‘Senior Citizen Pilgrimage Scheme 2025-26’ here. He also flagged off the first AC ‘Rajasthan Vahini Bharat Gaurav Tourist Train’ under the scheme from…
Chandigarh: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said the government of the day is handicapped, as it can’t register an FIR because there is a judicial order. Dhankhar made the remarks in connection with the Justice Yashwant Varma episode. A fire broke out at Varma’s residence in the national capital in March when he was a…
Bengaluru: Four officials of RCB and event management firm DNA Entertainment Private Limited were arrested on Friday in connection with the stampede outside Chinnaswamy stadium that killed 11 people, police sources said. They were remanded to 14-day judicial custody. Meanwhile, a complaint was filed by social activist H M Venkatesh against Cricketer Virat Kohli, holding…
Bengaluru: Karnataka government on Friday relieved MLC K Govindaraj as political secretary to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and transferred Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Intelligence, Hemant Nimbalkar, following the stampede outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium that killed 11 people, official sources said. These decisions came a day after Siddaramaiah suspended Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda and…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he will be attending the G7 Summit later this month in Canada and that he looked forward to meeting his newly elected Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney. PM Modi thanked Carney for an invite to the Summit, scheduled between June 15-17 in Kananaskis, in a telephone call…
Katra: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused Pakistan of attacking ‘insaniyat’ and Kashmiriyat by targeting tourists in Pahalgam, saying the intent was to trigger communal clashes in India and rob Kashmiri people dependent on tourism of their livelihoods. The prime minister was speaking after flagging off the first train service to the Kashmir Valley,…
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday took a swipe at the Modi government over fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s reported remarks that he had informed then finance minister Arun Jaitley before leaving the country in 2016 and said “Narender’s whole system has turned out to be a surrender”. In another jibe, the opposition party also…
Katra (JK): Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday raked up the issue of restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir at the flagging off of the maiden train to Kashmir by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this pilgrim town. “There are four persons on this stage who were present at the inauguration of the Katra…
Katra: (Jun 6) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the world’s highest railway bridge over the Chenab river, which was completed for Rs 1,486 crore in more than eight years. The prime minister then walked on the bridge holding the tricolour. After the Chenab bridge, Modi inaugurated India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge over the…
