- India
Telugu Dalit IPS officer suicide: 48-hour ultimatum given to remove Haryana DGP
Chandigarh: A 31-member committee, formed to ensure acceptance of demands of the family of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly committed suicide, has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the Chandigarh…
- News
Pakistan athletics federation bans Arshad Nadeem’s coach
Lahore: Salman Iqbal, the long serving coach of Pakistan’s top athlete Arshad Nadeem, was on Sunday banned for life by the country’s Athletics Federation for violating the constitution of the Punjab Athletics…
- India
Opposition seat-sharing, joint manifesto in Bihar likely this week
New Delhi: The opposition ‘Mahagathbandhan’ alliance in Bihar is likely to finalise its seat-sharing in the next few days and may announce its candidates along with a joint manifesto this week. Top…
- India
14-month-old raped, killed in Tripura, accused arrested
Agartala: A 14-month-old child was allegedly raped and killed in North Tripura’s Panisagar area, police said on Sunday. The accused, a daily wager, has been arrested from Nilambazar in Assam, they said.…
- India
Bihar elections: JD(U), BJP to contest 101 constituencies each, Chirag’s party gets 29
Patna: The ruling NDA in Bihar on Sunday finalised its seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming polls to the 243-member assembly, in which Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and the BJP will contest…
- India
Assamese-Hindus now only about 40 pc of state’s population, claims CM Biswa
Guwahati: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday claimed that Assamese Hindus now make up only around 40 percent of the state’s population, about the same as that of Muslims. Speaking to…
- India
Bihar polls: Sambhal MP criticises EC decision to check burqa-clad women during voting
Sambhal: Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal, Zia Ur Rehman Barq, on Sunday criticised the Election Commission of India over its recent decision to check women wearing burqas during voting in Bihar assembly…
- Technology
COAI defends call for mobile tariff hike, cites rising network costs, OTT traffic
New Delhi: Telecom industry body COAI has defended service providers’ call to increase mobile tariff, citing the continuous widening of the gap between their expenses on network deployment and the revenue earned…
- Telangana
Bhatti to visit Telugu Dalit IPS officer’s kin who died by ‘suicide’
Hyderabad: Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka will leave for Chandigarh on Sunday evening to meet and offer condolences to the family of Haryana’s senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who…
- India
Chidambaram calls Operation Blue Star ‘a mistake’, Congress unhappy
Shimla: Congress leader P Chidambaram said Operation Blue Star was not the right way to capture militants holed up in the Golden Temple in 1984, due to which the then prime minister,…
- India
Priyank Kharge urges Karnataka CM to ban RSS activities
Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge has urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to impose a ban on all RSS activities in government institutions and public premises across the state, stating that such actions are…
- India
Minister Suresh Gopi offers to step down, wants Sadanandan Master to replace him
Kannur: Union Minister Suresh Gopi on Sunday expressed his desire to step down from his ministerial post and recommended BJP’s newly elected Rajya Sabha member C Sadanandan Master as his replacement in…
- India
Bihar elections: Jan Suraaj Party will scrap ban on sale of liquor if voted to power
Patna: Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party on Sunday reiterated that if voted to power, it will scrap the ban on sale and consumption of liquor in Bihar imposed by the Nitish Kumar…
- India
Mamata to visit natural disaster-hit north Bengal again to oversee relief ops
Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Sunday again visit natural calamity-hit north Bengal to oversee the ongoing relief and rehabilitation work, officials said. She will also hold a series of administrative…
- Photos
UPPSC PCS prelims exam begins amid tight security
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) Provincial Civil Service (PCS) preliminary examination is underway across the state amid stringent security arrangements. To ensure transparency and fairness, centre administrators, assistant administrators,…
