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Security forces to get training modules on Taliban
New Delhi: Border forces and armed police units deployed in the counter-terrorism grid have been directed by the central security establishment to prepare and administer a new training module on the Taliban and its modus operandi to the troops in view of the “emerging” scenario following the Islamic militia...
Sidhu asks CM to cancel FIRs against farmers
Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday wrote to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, seeking action on farmers’ demands including cancellation of “unfair” FIRs registered against growers during their agitation. Asserting that the Congress stood by farmers’ agitation against the farm laws at every stage, Sidhu, however, asked the...
Judge steps out of courtroom to give relief to accident victim
Korba: A district court judge in Chhattisgarh’s Korba stepped out of the four walls of a courtroom to award Rs 20 lakh compensation to a 42-year-old man, who had suffered paralysis after sustaining multiple injuries in a road accident in 2018. The accident victim, Dwarika Prasad Kanwar, was unable...
Bhupendra Patel picked as Rupani’s successor
Ghatlodia MLA Bhupendra Patel will be Gujarat’s new chief minister after Vijay Rupani’s resignation from the top post a year before the state goes to polls, the party decided after its legislature party meeting. Bhupendra was earlier the chairman of the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA). Bhupendra has never...
AAP to contest all seats in UP Assembly polls
Asserting that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would contest all 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, senior party leader Sanjay Singh has said it would be a mistake to consider AAP a minnow as it had emerged “stronger” than the Congress in the recent panchayat polls. The Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP...
Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani resigns
New Delhi: Vijay Rupani on Saturday became the fourth BJP leader to step down as Chief Minister of a party-ruled state in six months, after he quit the top post in Gujarat. Mr Rupani steps down a year ahead of elections in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state –...
Newslaundry ‘survey’: IT sleuths deny legal assistance
New Delhi: A day after Income Tax officers spent over 12 hours at the offices of news websites NewsClick and Newslaundry – calling it a “survey” linked to tax evasion allegations – Newslaundry co-founder Abhinandan Sekhri tweeted to say “… was told I cannot speak to my lawyer… the...
Air Force to acquire 6 ‘Eye In The Sky’ planes for Rs 11,000 cr
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force is set to acquire six state-of-the-art airborne warning and control aircraft in a deal worth close to Rs.11,000 crore with the Cabinet Committee on Security giving a green light on Wednesday. The aircraft themselves are likely to be hand-me-down A-321 jetliners from Air...
CBI launches Covid pension fraud by EPF Organisation
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a corruption and cheating case against three officials of Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation or EPFO for allegedly siphoning off around 2.71 crore between March 2020-June 2021 when the pension fund organization had relaxed the norms for withdrawals amid job...
BJP hits out at Gandhis for JK problems
The BJP on Friday hit back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for accusing it and the RSS of ”trying to break the composite culture of Jammu and Kashmir”, alleging all vexing issues of the region are the ”legacy of the Gandhi family”. BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra, in a...
Biden, Xi discuss Covid origin probe
Washington: US President Joe Biden discussed the investigation into the origins of COVID-19 during a call on Thursday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, according to the White House. “They did discuss a range of trans-national issues including COVID-19, and understanding its origins is of course a primary concern...
Tax department holds ‘surveys’ at news website offices
Income Tax officers visited the offices of news sites Newsclick and Newslaundry today, calling them “surveys” and not “raids”. The Income Tax department confirmed that officers had gone to the offices of these news portals in south Delhi “to conduct surveys”. According to Press Trust of India, the officials...
Rahul Gandhi says in Jammu he is Kashmiri Pandit
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, whose party has long assailed the ruling BJP for entwining politics and religion, was on Friday seen exhorting people to chant ‘Jai Mata Di‘ from a stage in Jammu and invoking his Kashmiri Pandit lineage. “Jai Mata Di,” he was heard saying, somewhat...
Modi chairs meeting to review Covid situation
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today chaired a high-level meeting to review the COVID-19 related situation in the country and the vaccination drive to battle the pandemic, government sources have said. The session comes amid talk of a potential third wave sweeping the country in September and October....
Farm laws to dominate Punjab poll agenda
In a clear indication of muscle-flexing ahead of the Punjab assembly polls, representatives of over two dozen farmer unions convened a meeting with all political parties, minus the BJP, making it abundantly clear that farm laws will form the core agenda for the forthcoming elections. The leaders from Samyukt...
Tejashwi ‘caught’ distributing money to villagers
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav is courting controversy for purportedly distributing money among villagers ahead of the panchayat polls. A 21-second video was uploaded on social networking sites by JDU MLC Neeraj Kumar on Friday morning alleging that such an act is a deliberate attempt on Tejashwi’s part...
BJP’s Priyanka Tibrewal to challenge Mamata in Bhabanipur?
The suspense over who will take on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from the Bhabanipur seat in the upcoming bypoll may end on Thursday as the BJP is likely to announce the name of advocate Priyanka Tibrewal for the high-voltage contest. Tibrewal, who was the legal adviser of Babul Supriyo,...
Australia threaten to scrap Afghan cricket Test
Cricket Australia said Thursday it would have “no alternative” but to cancel hosting a historic Test match against Afghanistan unless the Taliban backtracks on a reported ban on women playing sport. The governing body said the first ever men’s Test between the two nations was under serious threat...
