Hathras/Aligarh: The grieving families of the ‘satsang’ stampede victims who met Rahul Gandhi in Hathras and Aligarh on Friday said the Congress leader has assured them he will make efforts to get their compensation enhanced. The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha also assured that he would raise the stampede issue in Parliament in a…
London: Keir Starmer is set to become Britain’s next prime minister after his Labour Party hurled towards a landslide majority on Friday in the parliamentary elections and dealt a bruising defeat for incumbent premier Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party. As Labour crossed the halfway mark of 650 constituencies to clinch the minimum 326 required for a…
Hyderabad: Six BRS MLCs joined Congress late last night in the presence of Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, dealing a significant blow to the K. Chandrasekhar Rao-led party. The Bharat Rashtra Samithi continues to suffer from desertions, with several leaders, including six MLAs, leaving the party after its defeat in the assembly polls last…
London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak may be on course for a bruising defeat with his Labour Party rival Keir Starmer set for a landslide win, according to the definitive election night exit poll released on Thursday as polling stations across the country closed in the landmark UK general election. According to the exit poll,…
Mumbai: Mumbai Police remained on their toes all through Thursday evening and faced some anxious moments as there was a stampede-like situation at several places along the route of the victory parade of the T-20 World Cup-winning Indian cricket team through South Mumbai. About a dozen children went missing in the crowd but they were…
Ranchi: From taking charge of Jharkhand as its youngest chief minister at 38 to establishing himself as a “fighter” for tribal rights, Hemant Soren, who returned at the helm for a third term days after his release from jail on bail, has had a chequered career. Not the first choice of his father Jharkhand Mukti…
Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ticked higher to close at fresh all-time high levels on Thursday, following buying in market heavyweights ICICI Bank, Infosys and TCS amid a largely positive trend in global equities. The 30-share BSE Sensex scaled an intraday record high of 80,392.64 in early trade. The index pared most of…
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday rejected BJP’s demand for a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in allotment of sites to land losers, including his wife Parvathi, by Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), as he stoutly denied any wrongdoing. Terming the allegations against him by the opposition party as “political”, he questioned whether his…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a visit to Russia from July 8 to 9 to hold the 22nd India-Russia annual summit that will review the entire range of multifaceted ties between the two countries, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Thursday. After concluding the trip to Russia, Modi will travel…
Moscow: Foreign Ministers of India and China have concurred that extending the volatile situation in border areas is not beneficial for either side. “I met with CPC Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Astana this morning. We discussed the early resolution of remaining issues in border areas. We agreed to redouble efforts through…
