Chennai: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Saturday said most of the political parties in Tamil Nadu have urged the EC to conduct the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in single phase in the state. At the end of his two-day visit to Tamil Nadu to review poll-preparedness, Kumar said the Election Commission (EC) would come…
Amaravati: Rebel MP of YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), K. Raghu Ramakrishna Raju, on Saturday resigned from the primary membership of the party. He sent his resignation letter to YSRCP president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. The Lok Sabha member from Narsapuram constituency wrote that the “chief minister’s multiple efforts to get…
New Delhi: TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his associates, accused of land grab and sexual assault under coercion in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, would forcibly take MNREGA wages from poor tribal families and torture them for voting against the party, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has learned. Complainants told a three-member National Commission for…
Lucknow: Twently two people, including women and children, were killed after a tractor-trolley in which they were travelling overturned and fell into a pond in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj district on Saturday morning, police said. They said 15-20 people were injured in the accident that took place on the Patiyali-Dariyavganj road under the Patiyali police station…
New Delhi: The newly enacted laws — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Act — to completely overhaul the criminal justice system in the country will come into effect from July 1. However, the provision related to cases of hit and run by vehicle drivers will not be implemented immediately. The…
Madurai (TN): Symbols of the Pandya dynasty, aspects of the famous Meenakshi temple and a sculpture of a bull representing the Jallikattu sport will part of the redeveloped Madurai railway station, the Southern Railway has said. Construction work of the station will be completed by November 2025 and will promote the city’s culture and heritage,…
Raipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday attacked the Congress saying the grand old party cannot think beyond ‘parivarvaad’ (nepotism), corruption and appeasement and the country’s development has never been on its agenda. After independence, the Congress ruled the country for a long time but its focus was only on forming the government and not…
Guwahati: The Assam Cabinet has given the nod to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1935 in a bid to end child marriage, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. “This Act contained provisions allowing marriage registration even if the bride and groom had not reached the legal ages of 18 and 21…
Mumbai: The country’s first bullet train project would have seen much progress by now had the then Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra expedited permissions, said Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday, asserting that the high-speed line will usher in economic growth. Speaking to media persons while inspecting the work on the project here, Vaishnaw announced…
Ranchi: India unearthed a fresh pace talent in debutant Akash Deep but veteran Joe Root single-handedly kept England afloat with a tenacious hundred that shunned ‘Bazball’ for a more conservative approach as the visitors hobbled to 302 for 7 on the opening day of the fourth Test here on Friday. At stumps, the 33-year-old Root…
