New Delhi: Negotiations on the seat-sharing formula and evolving a broad outlay of campaign strategy ahead of the Lok Sabha elections will be high on the agenda of the first meeting of the opposition INDIA bloc’s Coordination Committee on Wednesday. The meeting of the 14-member all-important panel of the opposition will take place at the residence…
Vijayawada: After a local court in Vijayawada on Tuesday rejected a house custody petition filed by TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, his legal team moved two pleas in the High Court — one seeking quashing of the case and another a bail petition. They are likely to come up for hearing on Wednesday. The former chief…
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday fixed September 18 for further hearing on a petition challenging the maintainability of a suit seeking “restoration” of a temple where the Gyanvapi mosque stands in Varanasi, after neither the petitioner nor the defendant appeared in the case. The court of Chief Justice Pritinker Diwakar had allowed a virtual…
Singapore: Indian-origin Singapore-born economist Tharman Shanmugaratnam will be sworn in as the ninth president of the city-state on Thursday, days after he was overwhelmingly elected as the ninth head of state of the country. The 66-year-old president-elect won 70.4 per cent of the (1,746,427 votes) of the 2.48 million ballots cast by local voters on September…
Rajouri/Jammu: One suspected Pakistani terrorist and an Army soldier were killed in a gunfight during an ongoing search operation in a remote village in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. Three security personnel were injured in the exchange of fire, they said. Additional Director General of Police, Jammu Zone, Mukesh Singh said…
New Delhi: Two deaths reported from Kerala’s Kozhikode district were caused by Nipah virus, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday. He said a central team of experts has been sent to Kerala to take stock of the situation and assist the state government in the management of the Nipah virus infection. Two “unnatural deaths”…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday said India’s law on the protection of plant varieties and farmers’ rights can be emulated for the entire world, as it gains importance amid the challenges of climate change. Addressing the first-ever global symposium on farmers’ rights at the Pusa complex in the national capital, the President said India…
(D Nagarjuna) When a political leader is arrested on proven charges, why should there be a hue and cry.? People seem to have normalised corruption saying that it is not such a serious issue as to push their leader into jail. Just imagine all those unsung people who have spent or currently languishing in jails…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted protection from any coercive action to a retired colonel against whom an FIR was lodged by the Manipur Police allegedly on the basis of the contents of his book published in January 2022. The top court also protected a professor against possible coercive action in connection with another…
Chennai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out searches at 30 places across Tamil Nadu in a case related to money laundering in sand mining, officials said. The searches were on at the premises of individuals in Chennai, Pudukottai and Dindigul, they said. The searches were being conducted against the sand mafia and contractors under…
