Udhampur/Jammu: Patience is running thin for the residents of over 50 villages in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district who have been waiting for the last two years for a new bridge over a rivulet and say the administration needs to be “shaken out of its slumber”. The 70-year-old Birwan bridge in the Army cantonment, one…
Dibrugarh (Assam): India is the world’s most vibrant democracy and its image cannot be allowed to be tainted or tarnished by anyone, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Wednesday. Some people are trying to tarnish India’s democratic image outside the country by spreading a false narrative that people do not enjoy their rights, Dhankhar said while…
Bhopal: The promise to ban the Bajrang Dal by the Congress in its manifesto for the Karnataka Assembly polls has triggered a war of words in Madhya Pradesh. While Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and MP home minister questioned Congress state chief Kamal Nath’s devotion to Hanuman, Nath said those spreading hatred must face action. In…
Srinagar: Two terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. The encounter took place near Pichnad Machil area of Kupwara district in north Kashmir, a police official said. “Two terrorists have been killed. The search operation is still going on,” the official said.
New Delhi: The BJP said on Wednesday that the Aam Aadmi Party is getting “exposed” by the day as it asked the party to come clean on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s alleged involvement in the corruption case involving the city’s excise policy. At a press conference, BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi cited reports to question if…
Mulki (K’taka): In a frontal attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the entire politics of the party is based on “divide and rule” policy, and charged it with going across the world defaming the country, when India’s democracy and development is being appreciated and respected globally. Calling Congress the “enemy…
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday slammed the BJP over its “double engine” pitch in the Karnataka polls, saying the May 10 election is to propel the Karnataka engine which got “derailed” by the BJP in the last four years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP have been batting for the continuation of BJP…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday refused to grant interim relief to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on his plea for stay of conviction in a criminal defamation case over his “Modi surname” remark, saying it will pass its final order post-summer vacation. Counsel for Gandhi (52), Abhishek Manu Singhvi, cited “extreme urgency” to request…
Mumbai: Springing a surprise, Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said he is stepping down as the chief of NCP, the political outfit he founded and helmed since 1999. Pawar made the announcement at the launch of his revised version of the autobiography which was met with protests by party workers and leaders who…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of “using” a part of the Rs 100 crore kickbacks allegedly received from the ‘south group’ liquor lobby to meet its expenditure for the Goa Assembly poll campaign in 2022. The accusation has been made in the agency’s supplementary charge sheet filed in the…
