Shahjahanpur: An octogenarian woman, who was locked inside her home in Shahjahanpur allegedly by her son, is suspected to have died of hunger, police said Monday. The body of the 80-year-old woman was found on Sunday after neighbours complained to police about foul smell coming out of the residence in Railway Colony. Salil Chowdhury, her […]
Ayodhya: Seers in the temple town of Ayodhya will offer prayers and seek divine intervention for early construction of a Ram temple on Thursday, the 26th anniversary of Babri mosque demolition. The mosque was demolished on December 6, 1992 by ‘karsevaks’ who had converged as part of a movement by the BJP and Hindu outfits […]
Lucknow : A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has been stabbed to death here in the Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday. Pratyishmani Tripathi, 34, was in Badshahnagar late on Monday, when some men attacked him with sharp-edged weapons. Tripathi was discovered bleeding on the roadside by passersby. The assailants remained unidentified as they had […]
Raipur : Eight Maoists were killed and one was injured on Monday in a gun fight with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, police said. A joint team of the paramilitary forces and the police went inside the core area of the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) — an armed wing of the banned Communist […]
Wardha (Maha): At least six people were killed and 10 others injured in an explosion near an ordnance depot in Maharashtra’s Wardha district on Tuesday morning, officials said. The explosion took place around 7 am while ammunition was being unloaded for disposal, a Defence official said. Around 10 to 15 contract labourers were at the […]
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has admitted to “theft” in the Rafale deal before the Supreme Court and to changes in the contract without asking the Indian Air Force. On Monday, the Centre submitted a 14-page document titled “Details of the steps in the decision making process […]
Uttar Pradesh deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma has said that the Ram temple in Ayodhya will be built “when Lord Ram wants it”. Sharma was here on Sunday to attend a programme at the residence of UP co-operative minister Mukut Bihari Verma. “The BJP has explained its stand on Ram temple in its Sankalp patra. […]
Demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax are the two major headwinds that held back India’s economic growth last year, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said, asserting that the current seven per cent growth rate is not enough to meet the country’s needs. Addressing an audience at the University of California in Berkley, Rajan […]
Charama (C’garh): Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of waiving loans worth Rs 3.5 lakh crore of 15 select industrialists and hit out at Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh over the issue of corruption. On the second day of his campaigning in the state, where the first phase of polling would […]
He looks like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, dresses and speaks like him and begins his speech with ‘Mitron’, but their similarities end there — He is Abhinandan Pathak, a Congress campaigner in the Naxal-affected Bastar region of Chhattisgarh who says “achche din nahin ayenge”. A new entrant to the grand old party, Pathak was with […]