Chennai, 28/12: Vijayakanth, who displayed extraordinary guts by taking the plunge into politics when M Karunanidhi and J Jayalalithaa dominated the political landscape in Tamil Nadu like a colossus after a successful and enriching two-and-a-half-decade stint in the politics passes away. The founder of Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) was 71 and is survived by…
Mumbai, 27/12: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will embark on Bharat Nyay Yatra (Justice for India) from Manipur to Mumbai between January 14 and March 20. The yatra will cover 6,200 km and span 14 states and 85 districts. The hybrid yatra will cover Manipur, Nagaland , Meghalaya, Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, UP, MP,…
New Delhi, 26/12: Commonwealth and Asian Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which she has announced that she is returning the state honours—Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award—which she had received. Earlier, wrestler Sakshi Malik had announced that she is giving up the sport while Bajrang Punia…
Pilibhit, 26/12: Unfazed by the presence of people gathered on nearby rooftops to watch the spectacle, a tiger sat on top of a wall yawning and basking in the winter sun on Tuesday, before being rescued by forest officials in a village outside the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve.Unlike usual man-animal encounters, this tiger – not older…
New Delhi, 26/12: Rattled by the attacks on two merchant vessels, India on Tuesday sent out a strong message, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asserting that the perpetrators of the incidents would be hunted down from the depths of the sea. Singh said that the Centre has taken cognisance of the incidents involving the drone…
New Delhi, 26/12: With six more cases of Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1, the number of infections of the new variant reported in the country have risen to 69, official sources said on Tuesday. Most of these patients are currently in home isolation and there was no increase in hospitalisation rates, they said.
Gaja, 26/12: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep fighting in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed, defying global calls for a ceasefire amid concerns the conflict could spread with U.S. and Iran-aligned forces again attacking each other. Netanyahu, who visited Israeli troops in northern Gaza on Monday, told lawmakers from his Likud Party…
Kolkata 26/12: Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda arrived here in the early hours of Tuesday, a party leader said The two senior BJP leaders will assess the organisational preparedness in West Bengal ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls next year, he said. Shah and Nadda reached Kolkata airport…
Sonitpur, 26/12: An Adivasi woman on Sunday was attacked with sharp weapons and burnt to death for allegedly practicing witchcraft in Assam’s Sonitpur. The victim was a mother of three and police have arrested five people over the matter. They are all residents of the same village.
Bengaluru, 25/12: Karnataka has reported three Covid deaths and 34 cases attributed to JN.1, a new subvariant of the novel coronavirus, the health department announced on Monday. These are the first confirmed cases and deaths caused by the new virus strain that’s spreading fast and has been described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as…
