Days after tendering his resignation from the BJP, former Rajya Sabha MP Chandan Mitra Saturday joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC). He was seen on the dais with TMC leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the party’s annual Martyr’s Day rally at Esplande in Kolkata. Along with Mitra, four other Congress MLAs are among several others […]
Villagers in the northwestern state of Rajasthan beat a Muslim man to death after accusing him of smuggling cows destined for slaughter, police said Saturday. Senior officer Anil Beniwal said the mob ambushed the 28-year-old and another man who were transporting cows through a forested area in the Alwar district and then began beating them […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took a dig at the “unwanted hug” he received from Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in Parliament, and said the coming together of many parties against the BJP will only help the ‘lotus’ bloom. Modi’s reference was to the coming together of several opposition parties in support of the no-confidence motion […]
New Delhi : The Supreme Court today reserved its order on a plea by Muslim groups of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute seeking reconsideration by a larger bench the observations made by it in a 1994 verdict that a mosque was not integral to Islam. M Siddiq, one of the original litigants of the Ayodhya […]
Several senior Jammu and Kashmir government officials are under the scanner of the Rajasthan Police’s Anti Terror Squad, which is probing 4.29 lakh arms licences being issued in the last one decade from various districts of the militancy-hit state, officials said. A majority of these licences were given to non-residents on the basis of forged […]
Senior Congress leader and parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor’s office in his constituency Thiruvananthapuram was vandalised on Monday by the youth wing activists of the BJP, police said, according to PTI. Tharoor said that the BJP and “Sanghi goondas” orchestrated the attack on his office. He said the BJP Yuva Morcha vandals drove innocent people waiting with their petitions out […]
Two of the five people accused of burning a woman alive after raping her in Rajpura area of UP’s Sambhal district have been arrested, the police said today. The woman was allegedly burnt alive inside a temple premises after she was raped by the five people in her house on Saturday. Superintendent of Police R […]
Midnapore (WB): A makeshift tent collapsed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in West Bengal’s Midnapore district today, injuring at least 22 people, a police official said. The tent, officials said, was erected next to the main entrance of the rally venue to shelter people from the rain. Many enthusiastic BJP supporters were seen crowding […]
Bhubaneshwar : India on Monday successfully test fired supersonic cruise missile BrahMos off the Odisha coast, proving it one of the best all-weather weapon systems. The missile was fired at 10.18 a.m. from a test range at Chandipur in Balasore district. The life extension test achieved all parameters, said the Defence Research and Development Organisation […]
A 26-year-old woman committed suicide by consuming poison after a Border Security Force jawan allegedly raped her on the pretext of marriage in Muzaffarnagar, police said today. The woman consumed the poison on July 6 and died at a hospital yesterday, Station House Officer (SHO), Kotwali, Anil Kaperwan, said. Her father, in his complaint, said […]