- India
Heavy rain lashes Haridwar, cars swept away in flooded Sukhi river
Haridwar: Heavy rain lashed Haridwar on Saturday afternoon and several cars washed away after flooding in the Sukhi river here. Rainwater gushed into homes and left major roads in the pilgrimage town…
- Kashmir
Exchange of fire reported along LoC in J-K’s Poonch
Mendhar/Jammu: A brief exchange of fire was reported along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, official sources said on Saturday. The firing from across the border was…
- India
Minister writes to UP CM over rejection of OBC, SC/ST candidates for govt posts
Lucknow: Union minister and Apna Dal (Sonelal) president Anupriya Patel has written a letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the rejection of OBC and SC/ST candidates for state government…
- India
Modi continues as if nothing changed: Sonia Gandhi on PM
New Delhi: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said the Lok Sabha poll verdict has signalled a “personal, political and moral defeat” for Prime Minister Narendra Modi but “he is continuing…
- Mumbai
Doctors circumcise boy with leg injury in Maharashtra; parents aghast
Thane: The parents of a nine-year-old boy from Shahapur in Maharashtra’s Thane district have complained to the police that doctors at a government-run hospital wrongly performed surgery on his private part instead…
- Delhi
Delhi court reserves order on CBI plea seeking Kejriwal’s judicial custody
New Delhi: A court here reserved its order on Saturday on the CBI’s plea seeking 14-day judicial custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in an excise policy-linked corruption case. Kejriwal was produced…
- India
BJP will be wiped out from Jharkhand after assembly elections: Hemant Soren
Ranchi: Former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Saturday slammed the BJP for allegedly hatching a conspiracy against him and claimed that the saffron party will be wiped out from the state…
- India
Tamil Nadu: Four workers killed in explosion at fireworks unit
Virudhunagar: Four workers were killed and another person was injured on Saturday following an explosion at a firecracker manufacturing unit near here, police said. The workers were killed on the spot and…
- India
Rajasthan: Protestors march with blood samples against minister’s ‘DNA test’ remark
Jaipur: Banswara MP Rajkumar Roat and his supporters on Saturday protested against Rajasthan Education Minister Madan Dilawar’s suggestion of a DNA test to verify if the tribal leader is the “son of…
- India
Kerala: ED attaches land, bank deposits of CPI(M) in money laundering case
Kochi: The Enforcement Directorate has attached a land parcel in Kerala and bank deposits worth Rs 73 lakh allegedly belonging to the CPI(M) as part of an ongoing money laundering probe linked…
- World
Pakistan seeks small arms from US for ‘Operation Azm-i-Istehkam’
Washington: Pakistan’s ambassador to the US has urged the US to provide small arms and modern equipment to his country to ensure the success of Operation Azm-i-Istehkam, Islamabad’s newly approved counter-terrorism initiative.…
- India
CJI underlines ‘Constitutional Morality’ as means to preserve India’s diversity
Kolkata: Espousing the importance of implementing ‘Constitutional Morality’ in Indian jurisprudence, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday insisted on the commitment of courts to ensure diversity, inclusion and tolerance.…
- India
Birla’s comments on Emergency not apt, don’t suit stature of LS Speaker: Pawar
Kolhapur: NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Saturday said the reference to Emergency made by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in his speech was not apt and did not suit the stature…