NEW DELHI: A local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader was shot and injured late Thursday night in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district, triggering a political row between the ruling party and the BJP.Raju Dey, the ‘karmadhyaksha’ of the Cooch Behar Block 2 Panchayat Samity, sustained a bullet injury to his right shoulder after unidentified men opened…
In the Pune rape case, the convict has been taken into custody by the police on charges of impersonating as a courier delivery guy and raping a techie. Meanwhile, in Allahabad, the HC dismissed a plea that called Shahi Eidgah a disputed structure. Lajpat Nagar’s gruesome murder of a mother and a son by her…
NEW DELHI: Sub Lieutenant Aastha Poonia became the first woman to be streamed into the fighter stream of Naval Aviation, marking a first for the Indian Navy in assigning combat roles to women.Poonia, along with Lieutenant Atul Kumar Dhull on Thursday was awarded the prestigious ‘Wings of Gold’ by Rear Admiral Janak Bevli, Assistant Chief…
NEW DELHI: Operation Sindoor, launched by India in the aftermath of the deadly Pahalgam terror attack, was used by China as a pretext to turn Pakistan into a testing ground for it s weapons, deputy chief of army staff (Capability Development and Sustenance), Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh said on Friday. He added that India…
NEW DELHI: The Allahabad high court has dismissed a plea by the Committee of Management of the Shahi Jama Masjid, which sought to declare the Shahi Idgah mosque in Sambhal a disputed structure, news agency ANI reported. The petition had challenged an earlier order by a civil court in Sambhal that had allowed a survey…
NEW DELHI: Deputy chief of army staff (capability development and sustenance), lieutenant general Rahul R Singh on Friday said that China was providing live inputs to Pakistan during India’s ‘Operation Sindoor‘.Speaking at the ‘New Age Military Technologies’ event organised by FICCI, Lt Gen Singh said, “When the DGMO level talks were going on, Pakistan was…
Bihar ki beti (Image: PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Indian roots Trinidad and Tobago counterpart Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Friday (Thursday in T&T) and called her “Bihar ki Beti” (daughter of Bihar), spotlighting her ancestral roots in Bihar’s Buxar district.While addressing a community event during PM Modi’s visit, Bissessar praised PM Modi and recited…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday launched a targeted attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the condition of roads in PM’s parliamentary constituency, Varanasi. “People are sharing photos of Varanasi roads on social media. Varanasi is the Lok Sabha constituency of the prime minister. However, he is unable to maintain…
Maharashtra chief minister, Devendra Fadnavis (Image: ANI) MUMBAI: An investigation by the Maharashtra government has found out that a total of 2,289 women government employees were beneficiaries of the Mukhyamantri Ladki Bahin scheme, state development minister Aditi Tatkare said in a written reply to the Maharashtra assembly. Upon identification, the benefits of the scheme were…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami recalled various achievements of his government as it completed four years in the state on Friday. CM Dhami highlighted the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), the promise it made to the people.“UCC was the resolution of our election. We implemented the UCC within the state. Under…
