UK, 26/7: British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Tuesday extended her bookmaker odds as the favourite to win the Conservative Party leadership race, with former Chancellor Rishi Sunak also trailing in a poll among Tory voters. While the outcome of their first head-on BBC television debate clash on Monday night was less than…
Amarnath,26/7: Heavy rains in the Amarnath shrine area triggered flash floods on Tuesday and security forces evacuated 4,000 Yatris to safety, officials said. Police sources said heavy rains occurred in Amarnath shrine area in the afternoon. “Alert security forces deployed in the area swung into action immediately and evacuated 4,000 Yatris to safety,” a…
New Delhi, 26/7: Nineteen opposition MPs, including seven from the TMC and six from the DMK, were suspended on Tuesday from attending the sitting of the Rajya Sabha for the entire week for disrupting the House proceedings. The opposition MPs, who have been stalling the proceedings since the start of the Monsoon session on July…
Allahbad, 26/7: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected the bail petition of Lakhimpur violence accused Ashish Mishra. A bench of Justice Krishna Pahal had reserved its order on July 15 after completing the hearing. The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court had granted bail to Ashish on February 10, 2022. But,…
New Delhi, 26/7: Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders led MPs’ march to Rashtrapati Bhavan to protest the misuse of central agencies as Sonia Gandhi was questioned by ED on Tuesday for a second time. Congress workers and leaders had earlier gathered at the party headquarters on Tuesday to show solidarity as Sonia…
Mumbai, 26/7: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday compared rebel party leaders to “rotten leaves” of a tree and said let there be elections to make it clear whether people support him on the rebel faction. In his first interview to Sena mouthpiece Saamana after stepping down as the chief minister last month, Thackeray…
New Delhi, 26/7: India has built 2,000 kilometres of all-weather roads along its disputed boundary with China over the past five years as growing belligerence of the neighbouring country prompted it to renew focus on construction of infrastructure that would help it mobilise troops in case of a conflict. Ever since the Indian…
Kolkata,25/7: If anyone is found guilty of wrongdoing, he must be punished, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday, days after her cabinet colleague Partha Chatterjee was arrested in the SCC scam by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Addressing an award function of the state government here, Banerjee slammed the opposition for a “malicious…
Mumbai, 25/7: Actors Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal received life threats from an unidentified man through social media, prompting the Mumbai Police to launch investigations. A case has been registered against an unidentified man in Santacruz Police Station in Mumbai and investigations were in progress. No arrests or detention has been made so far.
New Delhi, 25/7: The CBI has unearthed a racket of at least five men, including one presently staying in Karnataka’s Belgaum, allegedly involved in cheating people by offering Rajya Sabha seats for Rs 100 crore. The agency has claimed that the racket was attempting to cheat people by “falsely assuring” them Rajya Sabha seats, Governorship,…
