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BJP Govt will never change Constitution nor end reservation, says Rajnath Singh

     NEW DELHI,    The BJP Government will never change the Constitution or end reservation, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, accusing Congress of creating “fear psychosis” and resorting to spre..

Priyanka Gandhi to lead Congress charge in Rae Bareli and Amethi

    NEW DELHI,   Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will spearhead the Lok Sabha poll campaign in Rae Bareli and Amethi, and camp in these parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh from Monday to ensure the party&..

Manipur Governor launches ‘School on Wheels’ for children staying in relief camps

    IMPHAL,   MANIPUR Governor Anusuiya Uikey on Sunday launched a “School on Wheels” initiative to reach out to students staying in relief camps in the ethnic violence-hit State, a Raj Bhawan statement said...

Don’t have children of my own, working for future of your kids: Modi

     ETAWAH (UP),      PRIME Minister lashed out at the “dynastic politics” of the Samajwadi Party and the Congress on Sunday, saying while the Opposition alliance partners work only to benefit..

MCC violation: Cong files plaint with EC against BJP chief Nadda, others

    BENGALURU,    THE Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Sunday sought the Election Commission to initiate action against BJP’s National President J P Nadda and other senior leaders for allegedly v..

PM Modi heading towards 400 seat mark after phase 3: Shah

    DHARMAVARAM,    UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday exuded confidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be heading towards the 400-seat mark after the third phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. He also..

MI’S BIG FALL

      A LOSING team is an incredibly hard place to be in for the captain. It is a place surrounded with anxiety, tensions, pressures and also self-doubts. This edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is watching such a tea..

“India will get it faster if country hasPM to whom no one can say no to”

EXTERNAL Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday reiterated that India will get a permanent member seat at the United Nations Security Council and this would happen faster if the country has a Prime Minister to whom no one can say ‘no’. “This is a very difficult period. And more important, who do you trust? Who do you want to see in charge of this country? Who do you think will take this country through this challenge? And you asked about Security Council...

PM Modi to file nomination papersfrom Varanasi LS seat on May 14

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will be filing his nomination papers from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat on May 14, BJP’s city president Vidyasagar Rai said on Sunday. On May 13, Modi will hold a roadshow in the constituency, and preparations for it are underway, he added “The route for the roadshow has been finalised...

IAF convoy attack: Several quizzed,search on for terrorists in J&K

SEVERAL people were detained for questioning on Sunday as a massive search operation for terrorists behind the Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district entered the second day, officials said. Additional Director General of Police, Jammu, Anand Jain and senior officers of the Army and intelligence agencies visited the ambush spot in the Surankote area. The Army also conducted aerial surveillance using a helicopter, they said. Five IAF personnel were injured in the ..

India sees incorporation of1.85 lakh companies in 2023-24

MORE than 1.85 lakh companies were registered in the country last fiscal, higher than the count recorded in the year-ago period, and nearly 16,600 companies were set up in March this year, according to official data. As per the data, 1,59,524 companies were registered with a collective paid up capital of Rs 18,132.16 crore in 2022-23. At the end of March 2024, the country had a total number of 26,63,016 companies and out of them, 16,91,495 companies or 64 per cent were active...

Corrupt will face legal action in next 5 yrs: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the NDA Government has “unmasked” corrupt forces, and all those who indulged in corruption would face action under law in the next five years. Hitting out at jailed former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren without taking his name, Modi said leaders of the Congress and the opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc take out rallies in support of the corrupt. “The former Jharkhand CM is behind bars for corruption; Modi is committed to wipe out the menace. In the next ..

Cong gnawing at itself like ‘termite’, facing ideological bankruptcy: Scindia

THE CONGRESS is heading towards its end and is like a “termite” gnawing at itself, Union Minister and BJP Guna Lok Sabha seat candidate Jyotiraditya Scindia has said. The Congress has become ideologically bankrupt and nobody wants to stay with it. While the party has not fielded candidates on many seats, some of its nominees have withdrawn from the poll race, Scindia told PTI in an interview. The scion of the erstwhile royal family of Gwalior severed his 18-year-long ties with the Congress in 2020 ..

Denied party funding, Congress Puri LS candidate Sucharita Mohanty returns ticket

CONGRESS candidate for the Puri Lok Sabha constituency Sucharita Mohanty has declined to contest the elections and returned the party ticket alleging lack of funding from the party. Mohanty, daughter of former Congress MP Brajamohan Mohanty in a mail to AICC general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal on Friday claimed that her campaign in the Puri Lok Sabha constituency has been hit hard because the party has denied funding. She alleged that AICC Odisha in-charge Ajoy Kumar “categorically” asked ..

Deve Gowda’s son Revanna taken into custody in abduction case

KARNATAKA JD(S) MLA H D Revanna was taken into custody on Saturday by sleuths of the Special Investigation Team, minutes after a court here rejected his anticipatory bail plea in a kidnapping case, officials said. The former Minister was picked up from the Padmanabhanagar residence of his father, JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda here, and brought to the SIT office. The case was registered against Revanna, a former Minister and his confidant Sathish Babanna in Mysuru on Thursday ..

WATER CRISIS Reeling under acute shortage, women, kids of village in Jalna go on daily water hunt

WOMEN and children of a village in Jalna district in the drought-prone Marathwada region of Maharashtra spend most of their days scouring nearby areas for drinking water. Tucked away in the interiors of Badnapur tehsil, Tapovan village, located near the Jalna-Bhorkardan road, does not have natural water sources and is dependent on water tankers every day. According to villagers, the groundwater sources in the village have dried up in the last three months, forcing the women and children to walk at ..

Online radicalisation continues to pose significant challenge to global security: India

UNDERLINING that there can be no distinction between “good terrorism and bad terrorism”, India has said online radicalisation continues to pose a significant challenge to global security. Heading the Indian delegation at the recently-concluded 19th Interpol Conference of Heads of National Central Bureaux at France’s Lyon, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Praveen Sood highlighted the challenges posed by the nexus between organised crime, terrorism and extremist ideologies. Sood said online ..

Terror attack on iaf convoy 1 soldier killed, 4 injured in Poonch

ONE soldier was killed and four were injured as terrorists ambushed an Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Saturday, three weeks ahead of polling in Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency. Poonch is part of Anantnag-Rajouri parliamentary constituency which goes to polls in the sixth phase on May 25. Officials said five security personnel were injured, two of them critically, when four terrorists opened fire on IAF vehicles moving towards Sanai Top in Poonch’s Surankot ..

Juvenile justice shaped by intricate interplay of various legislative acts: CJI Chandrachud

Juvenile justice shaped by intricate interplay of various legislative acts: CJI Chandrachud..

Uttarakhand CM Dhami holds review meeting to combat forest fires

Uttarakhand CM Dhami holds review meeting to combat forest fires..

Congress, JMM, and RJD want to rob reservation of tribals, backward classes: PM Modi

Congress, JMM, and RJD want to rob reservation of tribals, backward classes: PM Modi..

'Amazon of Aligarh': Google Doodle pays tribute to India's first woman wrestler Hamida Banu

'Amazon of Aligarh': Google Doodle pays tribute to India's first woman wrestler Hamida Banu..

India’s reservoirs report water shortage Southern belt worst hit as levels dip to 16 pc: CWC

    NEW DELHI,     THE Central Water Commission has underscored a notable deficit in reservoir storage nationwide, which has dipped to 28 per cent from 35 per cent of the capacity during the corresponding period las..

ED ‘no’ to interim bail to Naresh Goyal

     MUMBAI,    THE Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday opposed the interim medical bail sought by Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal in a money laundering case and said his stay at a private hospital could be..

Villages ignored after Independence; we are trying to change their face: Gadkari

     CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR,   RURAL areas did not get enough attention in the years after Independence as then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru focussed on big industries, and the Narendra Modi Government is seek..

Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah flay Rahul for not contesting from Amethi

     ROHTAK,    MOCKING Rahul Gandhi as someone who runs away from the battlefield, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday targeted him for shifting his Lok Sabha constituency to Rae Bareli and said he could ..

Excise scam: SC to consider bail plea of Kejriwal

     NEW DELHI,    IN A ray of hope to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after 43 days of his arrest in the Excise Policy-linked money laundering case, the Supreme Court on Friday told the Enforcement Directorate ..

Rape case filed against Prajwal Revanna

     BAGALKOTE,    KARNATAKA Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said a rape case has been booked against JD(S) leader and NDA’s Hassan candidate Prajwal Revanna. He said he has directed police to ident..

All 25 crew of seized vessel MSC Aries released: Iran

     NEW DELHI,   IRAN has said, it released all the crew members of Portuguese-flagged cargo vessel MSC Aries that had 17 Indians among its 25 crews. Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian mentioned the release ..

Sensex tumbles over 700 points

    MUMBAI,    EQUITY benchmark Sensex plummeted over 700 points to sink below the 74,000 level and Nifty retreated from a record high on Friday as investors pared exposure to telecom, capital goods and tech stocks...

C’garh liquor scam: ED attaches assets worth Rs 205 crore

     NEW DELHI,    THE ED on Friday said it has attached assets worth over Rs 205 crore of retired IAS officer Anil Tuteja, the Raipur Mayor’s brother and a former Excise Department Special Secretary, bes..

Finally Suspense ends: Rahul from Rae Bareli

     RAE BARELI/NEW DELHI,   CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi filed his papers from Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli constituency, barely an hour before nominations closed for the Lok Sabha seat on Friday. Earlier, in t..

RAE BARELI !

     THE last-minute decision of Congress leader Mr. Rahul Gandhi to file nomination for the Lok Sabha election from the Rae Bareli Constituency came as no surprise to anybody. Credible buzz was already doing the rounds around the..

Rahul contesting Rae Bareli seat out of fear of defeat from Wayanad: MP CM Yadav

Rahul contesting Rae Bareli seat out of fear of defeat from Wayanad: MP CM Yadav..

Fadnavis calls Rahul Gandhi a political tourist as Cong nominates him from Rae Bareli

Fadnavis calls Rahul Gandhi a political tourist as Cong nominates him from Rae Bareli..

Shrikant will break previous records; win by margin of 5 lakh votes: Eknath Shinde

    MUMBAI,   MAHARASHTRA Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief leader Eknath Shinde on Thursday said that his son and the party nominee from Kalyan-Dombivli constituency, Dr Shrikant Shinde will break previous records in t..

Politics is a new challenge, confident of victory: Nikam

    MUMBAI,   RENOWNED lawyer and the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Mumbai North Central seat Ujjwal Nikam on Thursday said, politics is a new challenge and asserted that he accepted all kinds of challenges while ..

Sisodia moves HC for bail in CBI, ED cases

    NEW DELHI,    FORMER Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia approached the High Court on Thursday seeking bail in the corruption and money-laundering cases lodged by the CBI and the ED respectively in relati..

Rahul will be forced to take out ‘Cong Dhoondho Yatra’ after June 4: Shah

     BAREILLY/BUDAUN/SITAPUR (UP),   Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday attacked Rahul Gandhi, suggesting that his party will get such a drubbing in election that he will have to take out a ‘Congress Dh..

Intense heat wave sweeps east, south India

     NEW DELHI,     INTENSE heat swept through east India and parts of the southern peninsular region on Thursday, testing power grids and prompting the Kerala Government to order closure of educational institu..

Pakistan eager to make Congress ‘shehzada’ next PM of India: Modi

     ANAND (Gujarat),   PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday dubbed the Congress party a “disciple” of Pakistan, and targeted Rahul Gandhi saying the neighbouring country was eager to make the ‘..

DEEP VIGIL

     THE importance of the decision of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to set up as many as 125 security posts deep inside Naxal-affected areas across the country, needs to be judged not by the number but by the resolutene..

Delhi bomb scare Senders’ intention was to create mass panic: FIR

THE intention of the bomb hoax emails received by nearly 200 Delhi schools was to “create mass panic and disturb public order,” the Delhi Police says in an FIR registered by its Special Cell. According to an official source, who has access to the FIR, at least 125 bomb threat calls were received from different schools from 5.47 am to 2.13 pm on Wednesday. The person said that after receiving the calls, PCR vehicles were rushed to schools, and district police, BDS, MAC, Special Cell and Crime Control ..

Lookout notice issued against Revanna in sex scandal case

KARNATAKA Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara on Thursday said a lookout circular has been issued to arrest Hassan JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna who is facing allegations of sexually abusing women. On Prajwal seeking seven more days to appear before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case as he is abroad, he said there is no provision to grant more than 24 hours...

Air India’s Airbus A350 marks International debut

AIR India has launched flights on the Delhi-Dubai route with its new Airbus A350-900 aircraft according to a statement by Air India. The launch of flight on this route marks the international debut of Air India’s recently acquired aircrafts, making it the sole carrier to operate the A350 between India and Dubai. The commencement of flights was celebrated with pre-departure ceremonies at both Delhi and Dubai airports, where guests were presented with A350 memorabilia...

Stop registering voters for proposed beneficiary schemes: EC to parties

THE Election Commission on Thursday asked political parties to immediately stop and “desist” from any activity that involves registering people for post-election beneficiary-oriented schemes through advertisements, surveys or mobile applications. The election watchdog said it has taken a “serious view” of political parties and candidates seeking details of voters under the guise of various surveys for their proposed beneficiary schemes and cautioned that it amounts to a corrupt practice under the ..

"Congress is taking out frustration of losing by insulting Sanatan": Yogi on Kharge's Ram-Shiv remark

"Congress is taking out frustration of losing by insulting Sanatan": Yogi on Kharge's Ram-Shiv remark..

Cong is 'disciple' of Pakistan; neighbouring country eager to make 'shehzada' next PM of India: Modi

Cong is 'disciple' of Pakistan; neighbouring country eager to make 'shehzada' next PM of India: Modi..

Manipur cops drove 2 Kuki women to mob that paraded them naked: CBI

     NEW DELHI,      THE Manipur Police personnel allegedly drove the two women from the Kuki-Zomi community, who had sought refuge in their official gypsy, to a mob of around 1,000 Meiti rioters in Kangpo..

‘Joining NDA was neithercompulsion nor compromise’

     Pune,    Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday said that his decision to join the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was not a compulsion or a compromise, adding that his idea of develo..