India

Ghosi Bypoll: “BJP will win elections with majority”: Dara Singh

05 Sep 2023 13:36 PM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dara Singh Chouhan, a candidate for the Ghosi by-elections in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday said that his party will get the majority in the poll when the results are out on September 8. Talking to ANI, Singh said that he could see people’s trust in

Priyank Kharge, BL Santosh engage in Twitter war over Sanatan Dharma remark

05 Sep 2023 12:56 PM IST

Priyank Kharge, a cabinet minister in the Karnataka government, commented on the Sanatana Dharma remark controversy on Tuesday. He claimed that numerous infections that discriminate against people and rob them of their human dignity have existed for thousands of years and are still common today. This comes after BJP National

Sanatana Dharma remark row : BJP compares Udhayanidhi Stalin with Hitler

05 Sep 2023 11:21 AM IST

After DMK minister Udhayanidhi Stalin made comments about Sanatana Dharma, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) compared the DMK leader to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The BJP claimed that the leader’s comment was “unadulterated hate speech” and claimed that it was a call for the “genocide” of the 80 percent of

JMM candidate from Dumri casts her vote in Assembly bypolls

05 Sep 2023 10:35 AM IST

Bebi Devi, a Jharkhand minister and candidate for the Dumri by-election, voted on Tuesday morning and radiated confidence in the support of the electorate. After leaving the voting booth, Bebi Devi told, “I have the support of the people here in full. I’ve already voted. After the results are announced

Heavy rainfall warnings issued for several districts of Odisha

05 Sep 2023 10:29 AM IST

A low-pressure area is expected to form over Odisha in the next 24 hours, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) Bhubaneswar on Monday. In the next 24 hours, a low-pressure area is likely to form over Odisha, according to IMD Bhubaneswar director H R Biswas. Warnings of significant rainfall,

Shinde forms committee to address Maratha quota issue

05 Sep 2023 09:41 AM IST

Amid ongoing protests demanding Maratha quota rights, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced the formation of a committee that will deliver its recommendations within a month regarding the issuance of Kunbi caste certificates to Marathas from the Marathwada region. The Kunbi community, traditionally associated with agriculture, falls under the Other

Vistara expresses regret on an incident involving blind woman passenger

05 Sep 2023 09:14 AM IST

Vistara has expressed regret about the incident involving a blind woman passenger who allegedly had to wait for a long time to deboard from a flight at Kolkata airport last week. The woman passenger’s son took to social media to narrate the incident that happened on the Delhi-Kolkata flight after

Drought-like situation, power crisis in MP: CM Chouhan

05 Sep 2023 09:13 AM IST

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday said a drought-like situation and power crisis have emerged in Madhya Pradesh due to no rains last month, and he appealed to people to pray for good showers in the state. The state government is making efforts to purchase power from other states,

Won’t participate in ‘Jan Ashirward Yatra’ if invited now, says BJP’s Uma Bharti

05 Sep 2023 09:12 AM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union minister Uma Bharti on Monday expressed displeasure over not being invited for the party’s ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ launched in Madhya Pradesh, where the assembly polls are due this year-end. In a series of posts on her social media account X, former MP chief

BJP dares Mamata to denounce Stalin Jr’s comment on Sanatana dharma

05 Sep 2023 09:11 AM IST

West Bengal’s Leader of the Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari today lashed out at DMK leader Udayanidhi Stalin for his comments on Sanatana Dharma, calling them irresponsible and derogatory. He also challenged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to criticise Udayanidhi Stalin, son of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

Punjab smuggler confesses; sent ISI information about Himachal’s Yol army area

05 Sep 2023 09:08 AM IST

In May 2022, the Patiala police station Ghagga recovered 8 kg and 207 grams of heroin from the fields near Rajwahe Ki Patdi near village Dedhana. A month later, in June 2022, state police arrested drug smuggler Amrik Singh, a resident of Patiala. An investigation into Amrik Singh helped establish

Anti-drug campaign: Punjab police arrest 19000 smugglers in 14 months

05 Sep 2023 09:07 AM IST

Punjab’s decisive war against drugs and to root out the menace of drugs has completed 14 months and state Police have arrested as many as 19,093 drug smugglers including 2,778 big fish since July last year. The Police have registered a total of 14,179 first information reports (FIRs) of which