Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday thanked the five-member party delegation that visited the border districts of Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir, which were recently affected by shelling from Pakistan. She said the visit reaffirmed the commitment of public representatives to stand with people during…
New Delhi: The southwest monsoon hit Kerala on Saturday, marking its earliest arrival over the Indian mainland since 2009 when it reached the southern state on May 23, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Normally, the southwest monsoon makes its onset over Kerala by June 1 and covers the entire country by July 8. It…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said if the Union government and states work together like Team India, no goal is impossible. Modi is chairing the 10th Governing Council meeting of Niti Aayog. There is a need to increase the speed of development, he said. “We have to increase the speed of development….
Latehar (Jharkhand) Two Maoists, including JJMP supremo Pappu Lohra, who was carrying a bounty of Rs 10 lakh on his head, were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Saturday morning, police said. Lohra, the chief of the Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), a Maoist splinter group, and his associate…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said Operation Sindoor had revealed Pakistan’s role as a terror sponsor, exposing its direct involvement in attacks on Indian civilians and military sites after the Pahalgam attack. Shah, while speaking as part of the Rustamji Memorial Lecture organised by the Border Security Force (BSF) on the occasion…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has named Telangana CM Revanth Reddy, Karnataka Dy CM DK Shivakumar, and several other senior Congress leaders in the National Herald case, saying heavy donations were made to the Young Indian and AJL on these leaders’ directions. According to the chargesheet of the ED, a donation of Rs 80 lakh…
Gadag (Karnataka): Union Minister Pralhad Joshi has claimed that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara were the result of factionalism within the Congress’s Karnataka unit. Joshi said a faction of the ruling Congress in Karnataka had provided all the information to the ED, which led to raids on institutions linked…
Chennai: The flight carrying an Indian MP delegation to Moscow, led by DMK leader Kanimozhi, had to circle in the sky for some time due to a drone attack, but the aircraft later landed safely. Kanimozhi was leading the delegation of MPs deputed by the Centre as part of an international outreach post Operation Sindoor,…
New Delhi: Aviation watchdog DGCA on Friday said the crew of an IndiGo flight from the national capital to Srinagar on Wednesday had sought permission to enter the Pakistan airspace to avoid turbulence, but the request was rejected. In a detailed statement about the incident, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said there was…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Northeastern region is witnessing unprecedented progress and the government is determined to accelerate its growth story. Addressing the ‘Rising North East Investors Summit’ here, he also said that the diversity of the Northeast is its biggest strength and that the region is emerging as the…
