Patna, 25/9: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Sunday evening to discuss the contours of Opposition unity ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The meeting came hours after a section of senior Opposition leaders attended a rally organised by INLD to celebrate late…
Uttarakhand, 25/9: People’s anger over the murder of Ankita Bhandari, who worked as a receptionist at a resort in Uttarakhand’s Pauri district and was reportedly being forced to provide “special services” to guests, continued with the National Highway (NH) 58 being blocked in protest, even as her last rites were finally conducted on Sunday evening….
New Delhi, 25/9: With a contest for the Congress president’s post almost certain, history beckons the party as it would be the fourth time since Independence that polling would decide who would lead it. Also, with Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra deciding not to be in the running for the…
Patna, 25/9: RJD leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday said the JD(U), SAD and the Shiv Sena left the BJP-led NDA to save the Constitution and democracy. Addressing an INLD rally to mark former deputy prime minister Devi Lal’s birth anniversary here, he also accused the BJP of making false claims…
Uttarakhand, 25/9: The family of a 19-year-old woman receptionist who was killed in Uttarakhand allegedly by her employer refused on Sunday to conduct her last rites until they get the final postmortem details, even as a preliminary report said she died due to drowning. The draft report released by the All India Institute of Medical…
London, 25/9: The dismissal of Charlie Dean hasn’t gone down well with the England women’s cricket team with their skipper Amy Jones saying she was “not a fan” of the way India’s bowler Deepti Sharma ran out her player at the non-striker’s end during her delivery stride on Saturday.Freya Davies and Charlie Dean had put…
Korea, 25/9: North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast on Sunday, ahead of planned military drills by South Korean and US forces involving an aircraft carrier and a visit to the region by US Vice President Kamala Harris. South Korea’s military said it was a single, short-range ballistic missile…
New Delhi, 24/9: The CBI on Saturday carried out searches at 59 locations across 21 states and a Union Territory in an internationally coordinated law-enforcement crackdown on online circulation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), with officials here saying more than 50 suspects in the country are under the scanner. The raids, part of Operation…
New Delhi, 24/9: Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday batted for the ‘one nation, one voter list’, saying that there is a need for paramount and path-breaking reforms in the electoral process of the country. The former minority affairs minister was addressing a conference at an event organised here to celebrate the birth…
New Delhi, 24/9: The nomination process for the Congress president election started on Saturday with senior MP Shashi Tharoor becoming the first to collect the papers from the AICC headquarters. Sources said Tharoor is likely to file nomination papers on September 30, the last date, as he plans to collect endorsements from party delegates from…
