- India
Noida: School teacher cuts hair of students to discipline them; gets terminated
Noida: A teacher of a private school here has been dismissed over protest by parents of about a dozen students after she “symbolically” cut the hair of their wards in a disciplinary…
- Mumbai
Ajit Pawar faction appoints Narendra Rane as Mumbai NCP president
Mumbai: The Ajit Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday appointed Narendra Rane as the president of the party’s Mumbai unit. This is one of first appointments made by…
- India
Defamation case: Gujarat HC to deliver verdict on Rahul Gandhi’s plea on Friday
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court will on Friday deliver its verdict on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s plea seeking a stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his Modi surname…
- India
Govt calls all-party meet on July 19 ahead of Parliament’s Monsoon session
New Delhi: The government has called the customary all-party meeting on July 19 ahead of Parliament’s Monsoon session, official sources said on Thursday. The session, which begins from July 20, is set…
- World
SL rejects proposal for new shipping route at MEPC to save blue whales
London: Sri Lanka on Thursday squarely rejected a proposal for the creation of a new Traffic Separation Scheme, south of the island nation, to reduce ship strikes on the endangered blue whale…
- India
President Droupadi Murmu accorded civic reception in Mumbai
Mumbai: President Droupadi Murmu was on Thursday accorded a civic reception at Raj Bhavan here on her first visit to Maharashtra after occupying the country’s highest post. A Raj Bhavan spokesperson, in…
- India
Certain bills not signed as queries not addressed by state govt: Kerala Governor
Kozhikode: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Thursday defended his decision to keep certain bills, including the ones on appointments in universities and appointing eminent academicians as Chancellors of varsities, saying his…
- India
MNS leader travels with Raut, sparks buzz about tie-up between Thackeray cousins
Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Abhijit Panse on Thursday met Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, leading to speculation about a possible alliance between the estranged Thackeray cousins Raj and Uddhav…
- India
Congress, CPI(M) accuse each other of having no clear stand on Uniform Civil Code
Thiruvananthapuram: The verbal duel between the ruling CPI(M) in Kerala and the opposition Congress over the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) got heated on Thursday with each accusing the other of not having…
- India
Workers must get their due in govt: Rahul to CM Gehlot at Cong strategy meeting
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi told Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot during a poll strategy meeting that party workers must get their due in government and called for a “dynamic role”…
- India
TMC will not support anything that will harm the essence of democracy: Abhishek on UCC
Kolkata: Amid the raging debate over the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday said the TMC will not support anything that will harm…
- Pakistan
India slams Pakistan for politically-motivated remarks in UNSC
United Nations: India has slammed Pakistan for its “politically-motivated” and “venomous” remarks that referred to Jammu and Kashmir during a Security Council debate on children and armed conflict, saying those who are…
- Pakistan
Record rainfall in Pakistan’s Punjab province claims 11 lives
Lahore: Heavy spells of torrential rain that broke a 30-year-old record here in the provincial capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province have claimed at least 11 lives, according to local media reports. Lahore…
- India
MP: `Unauthorised’ property of accused in Dalit assault case demolished, NSA invoked
Shivpuri: The administration in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district on Thursday demolished `illegal structures’ of some persons accused of beating up two Dalit men at Varkhadi village last week, an official said. Action…
- Photos
Sharad Pawar meets with NCP leaders in Delhi
New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar during a meeting with the party’s state Presidents and General Secretaries at his residence, in New Delhi, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (PTI Photo)…
