New Delhi: AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday lashed out at Lt Governor VK Saxena over the murder of a minor girl in the Shahbad Dairy area, alleging that the people of Delhi have “lost faith” in the national capital’s law-and-order system. The 16-year-old girl was stabbed over 20 times and bludgeoned to death by a…
New Delhi: A new study has linked hypertension, brought about by high salt intake, with emotional and cognitive dysfunction. The study from Fujita Health University, Japan, found high salt intake to contribute to unwanted signalling between blood pressure regulation system and certain lipid molecules, thereby causing dysfunction in the brain. Cognitive impairment has been linked to…
Haridwar: The ongoing agitation by the wrestlers, who don Indian colors and won many medals, interestingly put their threat to throw their medals into the waters of Holy Ganga, however, chose to hold back after the intervention of farmers’ leaders. Their decision after a four-hour ‘drama’ on the banks of the Holy River, gives room for…
New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Rajiv Singh, currently working as an inspector general with the CRPF, has been sent to Manipur and likely to be appointed in a key post to handle the prevailing security situation in the state. According to an official order, Singh, a 1993-batch IPS officer of the Tripura cadre, has been…
Imphal: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, currently visiting Manipur, on Tuesday began consultations with stake-holders which started with a breakfast meeting with a group of women leaders, as part of his initiative to bring lasting peace in the violence-hit state. The home minister also held a meeting with delegations of civil society organisations as part of…
Mumbai: The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) on Tuesday claimed 22 MLAs and nine MPs from rival Shiv Sena were feeling suffocated due to “step-motherly treatment” by the BJP and could quit the group led by Maharashtra Chief minister Eknath Shinde. Latching on to Shiv Sena MP Gajanan Kirtikar’s remark that his party was getting step-motherly…
New Delhi: A day after its lone MLA in West Bengal joined the TMC, the Congress on Tuesday lashed out at the Mamata Banerjee-led party, saying such “poaching” is not designed to strengthen Opposition unity and only serves the BJP’s objectives. The Congress lost its lone MLA in the state assembly, Bayron Biswas, as he crossed…
Hyderabad: Delimitation of Lok Sabha seats after 2026 will be a “gross injustice” to southern states if it is taken up on the basis of population, BRS leader and Telangana Minister K T Rama Rao said on Tuesday. The minister’s view comes amid reports that the BJP-led government at the Centre would take up the…
Mumbai: On the back of sound macroeconomic policies and softer commodity prices, India’s growth momentum is likely to be sustained in 2023-24 in an atmosphere of easing inflationary pressures, said the Reserve Bank’s annual report released on Tuesday. It, however, added that slowing global growth, protracted geopolitical tensions and a possible upsurge in financial market volatility…
Jammu: Ten Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrims, most of them from Bihar, were killed and 57 others were injured on Tuesday as their double-decker bus fell into a gorge after skidding off the road and ramming into the railing of a bridge in Jammu district, officials said Tuesday. The death toll may go up as Government Medical…
