New Delhi: An espionage network with direct links to Pakistan has been unearthed, revealing how handlers across the border were remotely monitoring real-time movement of Indian Army personnel through a covert grid of solar-powered CCTV cameras installed at strategically sensitive locations across northern India, an official said on Friday. The surveillance network spanned key cities…
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah released the Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto, or Sankalp Patra, ahead of the assembly polls. Shah said the saffron party’s government in West Bengal would implement a ‘detect. delete and deport’ policy against infiltrators across the state. Shah also announced that the BJP government would implement the Uniform Civil…
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday took oath as a member of Rajya Sabha, marking the end of his two-decade rule in the eastern state and paving the way for a new chief minister. The oath was administered by Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan in his chamber at a brief ceremony….
Madurai (Tamil Nadu): An election flying squad on Friday intercepted and inspected the vehicle of TVK chief Vijay near the Madurai-Sivaganga border. The check occurred while the political leader was travelling from Madurai to Sivaganga by road for his scheduled election campaign ahead of the April 23 assembly polls. According to official sources, the flying…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh’s electorate grew by over 84 lakh to 13.39 crore after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), according to the final voter list published on Friday. Addressing a press conference at the Lok Bhawan Media Centre here, Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said the SIR exercise was conducted from…
Thiruvananthapuram: BJP state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday said the 2026 Assembly election would be the last contest between three political fronts in Kerala. Speaking to reporters here, Chandrasekhar, who is contesting from the Nemom constituency, said that after the Assembly polls there would be only two political fronts in the state. “On one side,…
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said that the police were doing their job by trailing Congress leader Pawan Khera in connection with a case filed by the CM’s wife over the allegations against her of possessing multiple passports and foreign properties. Sarma also took a swipe at state Congress president Gaurav…
Thiruvananthapuram/Guwahati: Assam registered a record voter turnout of over 85.64 per cent while Kerala witnessed an impressive polling with more than 78 per cent in the assembly elections on Thursday, according to the latest Election Commission figures, as the ruling dispensations in the two states eye a third consecutive term in power. Puducherry, a small…
Kolkata: Ratna Debnath, mother of the raped-murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday. She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders. Speaking to reporters after filing her nomination, she said her sole aim is to oust…
Asansol (WB): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asserted that a regime change in West Bengal is inevitable as the TMC’s “repository of sins” has become full. Beginning his speech at this coal and industrial belt by invoking local deities Goddesses Kalyaneshwari and Ghagar Buri Chandi, Modi highlighted the state’s “economic decadence”, saying, “Bengal’s contribution…
