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‘Made a mistake of giving financial benefit to all women’: Ajit Pawar on Ladki Bahin scheme; Uddhav Sena cries voter bribe | India News

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Monday admitted that the state government made a “mistake” in extending financial benefits to all applicants of the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana without sufficient scrutiny, attributing the lapse to time constraints ahead of last year’s assembly elections.“We made a mistake of giving the financial benefit […]

India lost jets but changed tactics to hit Pakistan hard: CDS | India News

File photo: CDS Anil Chauhan (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: India did lose some fighter jets during the strikes on nine terror hubs in Pakistan and POK and the consequent retaliation on May 7, but then changed tactics to inflict major damage on airbases deep across the border before the ceasefire three days later, Chief […]

‘Dear mom and dad … ‘: Tej Pratap Yadav pleads for love, blames ‘greedy people’ for rift with Lalu, family | India News

NEW DELHI: A week after being expelled from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and disowned by his father Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tej Pratap Yadav on Sunday shared an emotional message on social media, addressing his parents Lalu and Rabri Devi. In the heartfelt note, he pleaded for their love and blamed political conspiracies for his […]

Instagram influencer Sharmishtha Panoli sent to 13-day judicial custody; BJP accuses TMC of ‘appeasement politics’ | India News

Sharmishtha Panoli (File photo) NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old Instagram influencer, Sharmishtha Panoli, on Saturday was remanded to 13-day judicial custody after she was arrested by Kolkata Police for allegedly making communal remarks in a social media video. The law student, originally from Kolkata’s Anandapur area and currently enrolled at a Pune-based university, was apprehended in […]

’11th time in 21 days, when will PM Modi speak?’: Congress ups ante after Donald Trump again takes credit for India-Pakistan truce | India News

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh stepped up his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding answers on US President Donald Trump‘s continuous claims that he used trade as a war deterrent between India and Pakistan.“This is 11th time in 21 days that PM @narendramodi’s great friend and American President Donald Trump has made claims […]

Omar Abdullah renews call for J&K statehood | India News

SRINAGAR: CM Omar Abdullah renewed Wednesday demand for restoring statehood to J&K, saying political discourse around reversing Union territory status remains active and ongoing.“Conversation around statehood hasn’t died down,” Omar said after chairing a meeting of administrative secretaries in Gulmarg. “A recent Niti Aayog document, also shared with the PM and members of Aayog, categorically […]

Made in India 5th-gen fighter jet: Government clears indigenous stealth fighter jet project as China arms Pakistan | India News

NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday green-lighted the ‘Made in India’ fighter jet programme to produce a fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, the advanced medium combat aircraft (AMCA).India has been working on the ambitious AMCA project to develop a medium-weight, deep-penetration fighter jet with advanced stealth capabilities to bolster its air power.The AMCA, along […]

Gateway jetty is good, SC says, refuses to intervene | India News

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea challenging an order of the Bombay high court which had declined to stay the construction work for a passenger jetty and terminal facilities project near the Gateway of India.A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih noted that […]

‘Turned into criminal’: HC raps Maharashtra government for arresting 19-year-old over Operation Sindoor post | India News

NEW DELHI: Bombay high court on Tuesday rapped the Maharashtra government for arresting a 19-year-old college student over a post on Operation Sindoor. Calling the state government’s reaction “radical”, it questioned why the student was treated as a “criminal” when she had already apologised for the post.A vacation bench of Justices Gauri Godse and Somasekhar […]

Bombay high court to hear today plea of student arrested for post on Op Sindoor | India News

MUMBAI: The vacation bench of Bombay high court on Monday postponed to Tuesday a petition seeking interim bail filed by a second-year engineering college student from Pune arrested for her social media post on Indo-Pak hostilities amid Operation Sindoor. The student has also challenged her rustication from college as being “arbitrary and unlawful”. She is […]