Bijapur, 7/6: Five Naxalites were killed in two encounters with security forces in an ongoing operation in the Indravati National Park area of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Saturday With the latest casualties, seven Naxalites, including top leaders Sudhakar and Bhaskar, were neutralised in the operation in the last three days, they said.
Bengaluru, 7/6: A Shankar and E S Jairam have resigned from their respective posts as secretary and treasurer of the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), taking moral responsibility for the stampede that led to the death of 11 people during RCB’s IPL trophy celebration. In a joint statement, Shankar and Jairam said they had submitted…
New Delhi, 7/6: A 25-year-old man was apprehended on Saturday for allegedly giving a death threat to Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, police said Though he has been identified as Shlok Tripathi, a police source said the accused is a fraudster and frequently changes his identity. He was arrested by the Delhi Police and is…
New Delhi, 7/6: One month into ‘Operation Sindoor’, the Opposition remains divided over cornering the Modi government on security and intelligence lapses that led to the Pahalgam attack, the failure to arrest terrorists involved, questions over US President Donald Trump’s repeated claims on enforcing a ceasefire and the losses India suffered. The Opposition circles are…
New Delhi, 6/6: PM Modi on Friday said he had received a call from Canadian PM Mark Carney over telephone who invited him to the G7 Summit later this month. Congress had earlier criticised the Centre that India not being invited at the G7 meeting in Canada is “yet another big diplomatic bungle” after the…
UP, 6/6: In a sad piece of news,Piyush Chawla, the former India leg spinner, has called time on a professional career that spanned over two decades. Chawla, 36, played three Tests, 25 ODIs and seven T20Is, with his last appearance for India coming back in 2012 at the T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka. …
Srinagar, 6/6: Calling India’s precision airstrikes on May 6 a “nightmare for Pakistani terrorists,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that Jammu and Kashmir had finally been freed from the grip of terrorism. He was addressing a public rally in Katra during his first visit to the Union Territory since the April 22 terror…
Bengaluru, 6/6: Defending the suspension of Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda and other police officials for the stampede outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium that killed 11 people, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said, prima facie those who have not fulfilled their responsibility properly have been suspended. While speaking to reporters, he accused BJP and JD(S) of…
Katra, 6/6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the world’s highest railway bridge over the Chenab river, which was completed at a cost of Rs 1,486 crore in more than eight years. After the Chenab bridge, Modi also inaugurated India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge over the river Anji. The prime minister then walked on…
Lucknow, 6/6: A man, accused of raping a two and a half year old girl, died of gunshot injuries following an encounter with police here on Friday, officials said. The 26-year-old man, Deepak Verma, was carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh, they said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Zone) Ashish Srivastava told reporters that…
