- India
HC dismisses plea challenging BJP MP Pragya Thakur’s election from Bhopal in 2019
Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a petition challenging the election of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP Pragya Singh Thakur from Bhopal on grounds of giving “communal speeches”…
- India
Lok Sabha nod to bill to deal with maritime piracy
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to make special provisions for the repression of piracy on high seas after adopting a series of amendments including one that added…
- India
LS passes bill to give tribal status to Betta-Karuba community in Karnataka
New Delhi: Lok Sabha on Friday passed a bill to include ‘Betta-Kuruba’ along with ‘Kadu Kuruba’ in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Karnataka. Piloting the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Fourth Amendment)…
- World
China: Two more deaths reported in Beijing as millions hit by new Omicron variants
Beijing: Beijing, gripped by the fastest spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus, reported two more COVID-19 deaths on Monday as the virus struck the majority of the city’s 21.54 million people, including…
- Hyderabad
AICC steps in to smoothen ruffled feathers in Telangana Congress unit
Hyderabad: AICC secretary Nadeem Javed began efforts on Monday to address the infighting in Telangana Congress with more than 10 PCC leaders resigning from their posts in response to the remarks of…
- India
Smriti Irani comes to Amethi only to show ‘latkas, jhatkas’: Cong leader Ajay Rai
Sonbhadra: UP Congress leader Ajay Rai on Monday took a jibe at Union minister Smriti Irani here, saying that she only comes to her constituency Amethi to show “latkas” and “jhatkas”, an…
- India
Man indulges in ‘obscene acts’ before ‘Shivling’ in Indore temple; held under NSA
Indore: A 30-year-old man has been arrested under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) by the police for allegedly indulging in obscene acts in front of a “Shivling” in the premises of…
- India
BJD MPs meet Piyush, seek release of over Rs 14,000 cr pending food subsidy to Odisha
Bhubaneswar: A delegation of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MPs on Monday called on Union minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi and sought the release of Rs 14,292.15 crore pending food subsidy to…
- India
Murmu says Google CEO Sundar Pichai symbol of Indian talent
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Monday described the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai as a symbol of Indian talent and wisdom, and asked him to work…
- World
PM Rishi Sunak reaffirms UK defensive support to Ukraine for new year
London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak used a European summit in the Latvian capital of Riga to reaffirm the UK’s support for Ukraine in its ongoing conflict with Russia and announced a…
- India
Govt ‘talks like a lion outside, acts like a mouse within’: Congress chief Kharge on border face-off
Alwar/New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday alleged that the BJP government “talks like a lion outside the country, but is acting like a mouse within” as it is unable to take…
- India
RSS’ farmer body holds rally in Delhi, warns govt of trouble if demands not met
New Delhi: Thousands of farmers held a rally here on Monday under the banner of RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) to press for a rollback of GST on agricultural goods and other…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: BJP’s Hinduism is drama, says Congress’s Shivakumar
Belagavi: Calling ‘BJP’s Hinduism a drama,’ Karnataka Congress unit president D K Shivakumar on Monday asserted that the Hinduism practised by him and others in the party was better than that practised by…
- Entertainment
Delhi court to hear Nora’s defamation complaint against Jacqueline on Jan 21
New Delhi: A Delhi court is likely to hear on January 21 a criminal complaint filed by actor Nora Fatehi against Jacqueline Fernandez for allegedly defaming her by “unfairly dragging” her name into…
- India
1971 India-Pakistan war: Hero of Longewala passes away in Jodhpur
Jodhpur/New Delhi: Bhairon Singh Rathore, a BSF veteran of the 1971 India-Pakistan war whose bravery at Rajasthan’s Longewala post was portrayed by actor Suniel Shetty in the Bollywood movie ‘Border’, died in Jodhpur…
