Aligarh (UP): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said the “double-engine” government of the BJP has “put an Aligarh lock” on riots in the state. Campaigning for the ongoing urban local body polls in Aligarh, which is famous for its locks, Adityanath hit out at opposition parties for promoting “tamancha culture” (country-made pistol) in…
New Delhi: A batch of pleas has been filed in the Supreme Court on the Manipur situation including one by a ruling BJP MLA challenging the high court order on the issue of Scheduled Tribe status to the Meitei community and a PIL by a tribal outfit for a probe by an SIT into the violence…
Rampur (UP): Police here have arrested a close aide of senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for allegedly forcibly evicting a person from his house, officials said. The accused, Aley Hasan Khan, a former circle officer, was arrested from his residence in Delhi, the police officials said. Chaudhary was arrested following the issuance of non-bailable warrants…
Rajouri/Jammu, May 7 (PTI) No fresh contact was established with holed up terrorists in the forested Kandi area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, where a massive search operation to track ultras entered the third day on Sunday, officials said. Five Army personnel and a terrorist, who is said to be part of the group…
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the voters of Manipur are feeling “grossly betrayed” just a year after putting the BJP in power and called for the imposition of President’s rule in the state that has witnessed violent clashes. Violent clashes had broken out in Manipur last week between tribals and members…
New Delhi: Money was “illegally” collected from “every bottle” of liquor sold in Chhattisgarh and evidence of “unprecedented” corruption and laundering of Rs 2,000 crore generated by an alcohol syndicate led by Anwar Dhebar, the elder brother of Raipur Mayor Aijaz Dhebar, has been collected, the ED said on Sunday. Anwar Debhar was arrested by the…
Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, a day before the final day of campaigning for May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka, held a massive road show in the city, waving at a large number of enthusiastic crowd lined up on both sides of the route, despite overcast sky. The 8-km roadshow from Kempegowda statue at…
Mangaluru: Raising the pitch for the BJP’s election campaign in south Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday held massive roadshows at Puttur and Bantwal in Dakshina Kannada district and Karkala in Udupi. Adityanath, who first arrived in Puttur, where party candidate Asha Thimmappa Gowda is pitted against Ashok Kumar Rai of Congress…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi’s allegation of a two-finger test on minor girls in Chidambaram is false and the health department, upon verification, found no such test was done, State Health Minister Ma Subramanian said on Saturday. Accusing the Governor of being vindictive towards the State government, Subramanian claimed Ravi attempted to portray something…
New Delhi: A cyclonic circulation formed in the southeast Bay of Bengal on Saturday, which is seen by weather scientists as the first step of the development of a possible severe cyclonic storm in the region next week. “A cyclonic circulation lies over southeast Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood in lower and middle tropospheric levels. Under…
