NEW DELHI: Janata Dal (United) MP Giridhari Yadav on Wednesday strongly criticised the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being conducted in Bihar, calling it a rushed and impractical move by the Election Commission. “This (SIR) has been imposed on us forcefully,” Yadav told ANI. “Election Commission has no practical knowledge. It neither knows…
A 31-year-old Class-2 Maharashtra government officer has filed a police complaint accusing her husband of secretly filming her private moments by installing spy cameras in their bedroom and bathroom, news agency PTI reported. The woman, who works in a state department, also alleged she was physically and mentally harassed over a dowry demand.According to the…
Imran Masood, MP from Saharanpur, received a letter on Wednesday from a group of children asking the Congress leader to clean a local playground.The letter was posted by Qazi Hamza Masood, nephew of Imran Masood, on social media, who described the request as the “cutest application.”The group of children belonged to Masoodabad Colony, a locality…
American President Donald Trump on Tuesday night once again claimed credit for helping stop the recent India-Pakistan conflict and said that it was probably going to end up in a “nuclear war”.“We stopped wars between India and Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda,” Trump said at a reception in the White House.“They…
NEW DELHI: Four Kanwar pilgrims were killed and several others injured after being hit by a car late Tuesday night on the Sheetla Mata highway in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district.Gwalior’s chief superintendent of police Hina Khan said, “We got information that an incident has happened on the Sheetla Mata highway in which some Kanwar pilgrims…
NEW DELHI: As Rajya Sabha met Tuesday morning – the second day of Parliament’s monsoon session – the effect of Jagdeep Dhankhar’s departure weighed heavily in the Upper House. The VP is also the Rajya Sabha chairman.Dhankhar, usually, would not miss chairing RS proceedings at the beginning of the day, but on Tuesday, all eyes…
NEW DELHI: “Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar ji has had many opportunities to serve our country in various capacities, including as Vice-President of India. Wishing him good health,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X, shortly after President Droupadi Murmu accepted Dhankhar’s resignation.Going by sendoff messages for politicians, the post was starkly terse and conveyed the tension…
Mumbai: A day after the Bombay high court judgment acquitted him from the charge of conspiracy in the 11/7 train blasts, Mohammed Ali Shaikh’s Govandi residence was filled with relatives and neighbours who greeted him with sweets, while phones buzzed with congratulatory calls. “The happiness of reuniting with my family cannot be described. After 19…
NAVI MUMBAI: This is no flight of fancy. A Greater flamingo found injured in Nerul’s NRI wetland, whose left leg had to be amputated, could soon take to the skies again.Makarand Saraf, a lecturer from Mumbai’s All India Institute of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and his team have successfully fitted a prosthesis on the adolescent…
jagdeep Dhankhar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Before he surprised political circles by announcing his resignation, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar alarmed Rashtrapati Bhavan officials by turning up to meet President Droupadi Murmu without an appointment.The protocol-driven President’s secretariat has not had to deal with such unexpected developments in a long time. Not surprisingly, the unscheduled arrival of…