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Basavaraj Bommai as CM, proposed by Yediyruappa
Basavaraj Bommai, home minister in BS Yediyurappa’s cabinet, was picked to succeed him as the Chief Minister of Karnataka at a meeting of party MLAs this evening. The oath ceremony will be held at 11 am tomorrow, sources said. Basavaraj Bommai, a leader of the politically powerful Lingayat...
Extensive agenda for talks with US Secretary of State
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will arrive in India on a two-day visit on Tuesday with an extensive agenda featuring the rapidly evolving security situation in Afghanistan, boosting Indo-Pacific engagement and ways to enhance COVID-19 response efforts among others. It will be Blinken’s first visit to India after...
Pitched battle between Assam, Mizoram police forces
Guwahati: Gunshots ringing out on the highway, puffs of smoke, a road littered with stones and tear gas canisters and upturned vehicles of the roadside — the six-hour violence at the Assam-Mizoram border at Kolasib left the area looking like a battlefield and six men of the Assam...
Bengal sets up probe into Pegasus scandal
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee has set up a panel – consisting of retired judges Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya and Justice MB Lokur – to probe the Pegasus phone-hacking scandal. This comes days after her nephew and Trinamool MP, Abhishek Banerjee, appeared on a list of potential surveillance targets. This is...
Chhattisgarh MLA accuses minister of murder bid
Raipur: Tussle within the Chhattisgarh Congress has spilled onto the street following a road rage incident involving a tribal MLA and a relative of state Health Minister TS Singh Deo. On Saturday evening, the convoy of Congress MLA from Balrampur, Brihaspati Singh, was passing through Ambikapur. Apparently angry at...
Yediyurappa says he faced challenges from day 1
Bengaluru: As he stares at his possible exit, B S Yediyurappa on Saturday said he had to face several challenges from the day he took charge as the Chief Minister, but is satisfied that he has made honest efforts to better the lives of the people. The Chief Minister...
Kejriwal says LG insulting people of Delhi
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal’s decision to reject a panel of lawyers picked by the city government for cases against the farmers protesting against the centre’s three new farm laws was “an insult to the people of Delhi”. “Overturning...
J&K district magistrates in CBI net for arms scam
Srinagar: Several district magistrates in Jammu and Kashmir in collusion with arms dealers had issued illegal gun licences going back as far as 2012, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Saturday as part of their probe into an arms licence racket. Over 2.78 lakh illegal gun licences...
Key Congress meeting today to resolve Rajasthan infighting
After Punjab, Congress To Resolve Rajasthan Infighting, Key Meet TodayRajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra has called a meeting of MLAs this morning, just days after the party settled the political tension and tussle among its two big leaders – Amarinder Singh and Navjot Sidhu – in Punjab. There...
Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu wins India’s first medal at Tokyo Olympics
Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won India’s first medal at Tokyo Olympics with a silver.© AFP Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu bagged the country’s first medal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics with a silver in women’s 49kg category. China’s Zhihui Hou took the gold medal with a total lift of 210kg,...
76 dead as rain, landslides hit Maharashtra
Mumbai: At least 76 people have died in rain-related incidents, including multiple landslides, in Maharashtra. The deaths include 36 people who died in a landslide in the coastal Raigad district, about 70 km from state capital Mumbai. However, it is feared that the death count could be over 100 as...
Shilpa Shetty says ‘erotica’ is not ‘porn’
Mumbai: Actor Shilpa Shetty has said she was unaware of the exact nature of content on ‘Hotshots’ – the mobile app via which her husband, Raj Kundra, is accused of streaming pornographic content – Mumbai Police sources have told news agency ANI. Police sources said Ms Shetty said it...
Amarinder, Sidhu to end war with tea
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Navjot Sidhu will meet today for tea in a first effort for peace ahead of the cricketer-turned-politician’s inauguration as the Punjab Congress chief. The overture came from Mr Sidhu, who invited the Chief Minister for the programme at the party office. Mr Singh...
Amarinder slams Meenakshi Lekhi for “hooligans” remark on farmers
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday demanded resignation of Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi for allegedly calling protesting farmers “hooligans”. Ms Lekhi, when asked about incidents of violence during the farmers’ protests against the three central agricultural laws, had on Thursday called the protesters “mawali” or hooligans. After...
Parliament uproar over Pegasus continues
Both houses of parliament continued to witness uproar over the Pegasus snooping incident. The trouble forced adjournment of both houses. The opposition benches were demanding to know whether India has bought the Israeli spying tool. The opposition gave a notice for adjournment to discuss the issue in Lok Sabha,...
Ravi Shankar Prasad defends Pegasus use
Amid the tumult over reports of snooping in multiple nations through Israeli spyware Pegasus, former Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has questioned why only India is being “targeted” for the use of the spyware when 45 nations are using it. Mr Prasad, who handled the IT ministry...
SC stops short of striking down easing of Kerala curbs
Kerala’s move to “give in to pressure groups” and announce a three-day relaxation of Covid curbs for Bakrid (Eid-ul-Azha) has alarmed the Supreme Court which today said this was “wholly uncalled for”. However, it did not cancel the government notification that eased the lockdown in the state. “Alarming state...
Assam ‘Population Army’ for Muslim-majority areas
Guwahati: Assam will have a ‘population Army’ to distribute contraceptives and create awareness about population control in Muslim-dominated areas of the state, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the Assembly on Monday. A 1,000-strong force will be sent to areas in Lower Assam, he said. The Chief Minister, whose...
