The police have recovered three magnetic IEDs dropped by a drone in the border area of Jammu district in a fresh attempt to smuggle explosives through the aerial route, officials said on Tuesday.The IEDs, with their timers set and packed inside tiffin boxes, were recovered from the Kantowala-Dayaran area of Kanachak in Akhnoor sector, Additional […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Bhojpuri star Dinesh Lal Yadav, popularly known as ‘Nirahua’, for the Lok Sabha bypoll from the Azamgarh constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The seat fell vacant after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav resigned as a Lok Sabha member following his decision to retain the assembly seat he won in […]
Telangana Police on Saturday arrested the second accused, who is a juvenile and one of the main culprits, in connection with the alleged gang rape of a teenage girl in Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills last week. So far, two accused have been apprehended in the Hyderabad rape case. One accused, identified as Saduddin Malik, was arrested […]
Swami Avimukteshwaranand on Saturday was stopped from leaving Sri Vidya Matt in Varanasi by police as he was about to set out for the Gyanvapi complex, which is at the centre of controversy now. He had announced earlier that he and his followers would offer prayers at the ‘Shivling’ claimed to be found at the […]
Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh faced a political setback on Thursday night as his younger brother was defeated in Ontario’s provincial elections from a seat in the family’s political base of Brampton in the Greater Toronto Area. The elder brother had been present at the launch of the re-election campaign of Gurratan […]
Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday registered a big victory in the crucial by-polls held for the Champawat constituency seat. This was a must-win election for Dhami to keep his CM’s seat. He managed a huge margin of over 55,000 votes as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader defeated Congress’s Nirmala Gahtori. Speaking […]
External affairs minister S Jaishankar said India’s foreign policy is not sitting on the fence, just because its policy may not be agreeable to some other countries. “I am not sitting on the fence just because I don’t agree with you. It means I am sitting on my ground,” the foreign minister said taking part […]
The Delhi high court on Friday ordered strict action, including de-boarding of passengers violating Covid norms such as the mandatory wearing of masks and maintaining hygiene at airports as well as on aircraft as the pandemic has not abated. A bench of acting chief justice Vipin Sanghi and justice Sachin Datta said the violators should […]
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on June 13 in the National Herald money-laundering case linked to a 2012 private complaint filed by BJP’s Subramanian Swamy in a Delhi court.Sonia Gandhi summoned for June 8 in the same case may be called later since she tested Covid-positive on Thursday and seven-day isolation […]