[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday upped the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, accusing him of rarely attending proceedings and prioritising foreign trips over urgent domestic concerns.In a social media post on X, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said the Prime Minister “owes it to the country”…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The man, who saved the 15-year-old girl from Odisha’s Puri district after she was set ablaze by unidentified men, recounted the harrowing 90 minutes after she knocked on his door, screaming for help, “save me, save me.“ A 15-year-old girl, allegedly set on fire by three masked men in Odisha’s Puri district,…
[ad_1] Kottayam: Is there a connection between jackfruit and detection of alcohol in one’s breath? A breathalyser test at a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation depot in Pathanamthitta apparently found one.A bus driver who consumed jackfruit before joining duty failed a breathalyzer test at the Pandalam KSRTC depot on Friday. An official, who did not…
[ad_1] Justice Yashwant Varma and Kiren Rijiju (right) NEW DELHI: Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said over 100 MPs have signed a notice to bring a removal motion against Justice Yashwant Varma, crossing the threshold to bring the motion in Lok Sabha.“The signature (exercise) is underway and it has crossed 100 already,” Rijiju…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: While the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral roll in Bihar is well on track with merely 32 lakh electors left to be covered, what has caught attention is the mention of 11,000 “not traceable” electors in the latest update put out by Election Commission on Saturday. Sources told TOI that electors…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Centre on Sunday expressed its readiness to discuss all “important issues” in the monsoon session of Parliament raised by opposition parties, including Operation Sindoor and repeated claims by US President Donald Trump that he had facilitated the ceasefire between India and Pakistan.At the customary floor leaders’ meeting ahead of the session…
[ad_1] CHANDIGARH: Declaring ‘honour killings’ an attack on the very foundations of civilised society, a district court in Haryana’s Kaithal on Saturday sentenced two brothers to life imprisonment for the murder of their sister’s husband over a love marriage in 2017.“The crime committed was brutal, premeditated, and driven by misplaced notions of honour, for which…
[ad_1] Mumbai: Film director Chandra Barot, best known for the blockbuster classic, Don (1978), which prompted multiple remakes in southern languages and spawned a series of sequels decades later, passed away due to medical complications at Guru Nanak Hospital in Bandra (east) on Sunday. He was 86.“My husband was suffering from pulmonary fibrosis for the…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Union aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Sunday urged western media to avoid speculation and appreciated AAIB for decoding black box data in India.“AAIB has made an appeal to all, especially western media houses, which may have a vested interest in the kind of articles they are trying to publish. I believe in…
[ad_1] Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah (PTI photo) SRINAGAR: Lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha hailed J&K police Sunday for “establishing an era of peace”, the fulsome praise coming hours after opposition BJP accused CM Omar Abdullah of “confronting” cops and “provoking separatism” last week when they tried to stop him from heading to a graveyard of…