London: Voters across large parts of England are voting in local elections on Thursday to elect hundreds of councillors and some local mayors in the first election where a form of voter identification (ID) is compulsory. Elections are being held in 230 of England’s 317 councils, within district, borough, county borough and unitary authority councils, and…
Washington: A Sikh couple was killed in a car accident in the US when a distracted driver hit the duo in a head-on collision, orphaning their two minor children. The accident occurred last Friday when Parminder Singh Bajwa and his wife Harpreet Kaur Bajwa were on their way to pick their children up from a school…
Karachi: A Pakistani police officer has been booked for allegedly killing a Hindu boy in an encounter in the country’s Sindh province earlier this week, a media report said on Thursday. The charges against accused Farman Shah were registered after the father of the deceased submitted a complaint with the authorities that his son Kamal Kishan…
Chandigarh: Punjab Police on Thursday said they have busted an international gang involved in the cross-border smuggling of arms and narcotics with the arrest of 13 people and recovery of heroin worth over Rs 34 lakh. “In a major breakthrough Gurdaspur police busted an international gang of cross border arms and narcotic smugglers while making…
Bengaluru: The BJP on Thursday dropped plans to have an eight-hour road-show by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Saturday following concerns expressed by Bengalureans over difficulties that they will face with such a day-long programme.. Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje said the Prime Minister would now hold a road-show on two days — 10 am…
New Delhi: Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrashekar Rao inaugurated a new office of his party in the national capital on Thursday. The four-storeyed building in Vasant Vihar in southwest Delhi will be the centre of the party’s expansion activities across the country. Rao changed his party’s name from Telangana Rashtra Samithi…
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Thursday denied allegations that its personnel were drunk or used force against protesting wrestlers during a late-night ruckus at Jantar Mantar between police and some grapplers. The deputy commissioner of police (DCP), New Delhi, said five police personnel were injured in the Wednesday night ruckus. The wrestlers, on the other hand,…
Bengaluru: Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal activists staged protests in several parts of the state on Thursday against the Congress election manifesto which proposed banning of the latter in the event of the party coming to power in Karnataka. At some places, “Hanuman Chalisa” were also chanted. The protestors are slated to chant…
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) founder Bhim Singh’s son has been removed from a blacklist and issued an emergency visa to attend his mother’s funeral after he apologised to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for participating in an anti-government protest in London last year. Ankit Love (39), who is based in London, was…
New Delhi: Union Minister and BJP leader Meenakashi Lekhi on Thursday said the credibility of the wrestlers’ protest at Jantar Mantar eroded after “discredited” politicians joined it. Wrestlers, have levelled sexual harassment charges against Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Saran Singh and sat on a protest at Jantar Mantar in…
