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Bihar election results: Tejashwi Yadav faces tough contest in Raghopur; can he hold on to family bastion? | India News

File photo of Tejashwi Yadav NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, the Mahagathbandhan’s chief ministerial face, is locked in a close contest in his family bastion, Raghopur. Early trends from the Election Commission of India show a narrow fight, with Tejashwi polling 23,531 votes, slightly ahead of BJP’s Satish Kumar Yadav, who has secured 23,312 […]

Beyond headlines: How India foiled terror attacks | India News

Dismantled Many Networks Over Past 6 MonthsNew Delhi: While terror strikes understandably dominate news headlines and public discourse for days, the sustained and tireless efforts and operations by the security agencies to foil terror plots and nip attack conspiracies in the bud, may pass off without due notice.For instance, the six months preceding the Delhi […]

Delhi car blast: 35-year-old on ventilator dies; toll rises to 13 | India News

Doctors at Delhi govt’s Lok Nayak Hospital (LNJP) confirmed the death of Bilal (35), who, according to police, lived near Jama Masjid. However, some sources said that he was a resident of Kangan in Ganderbal, Jammu & Kashmir.Among the most severely injured victims brought to the hospital after the explosion, Bilal suffered an abdominal-penetrating injury […]

Chaos at Shreya Ghoshal’s Cuttack concert: One injured as crowd surges toward stage | India News

NEW DLEHI: A brief commotion broke out during Bollywood playback singer Shreya Ghoshal’s concert at the Bali Jatra ground in Cuttack, Odisha, on Thursday evening, after an overwhelming crowd surge left one person injured, officials said, PTI reported.The situation turned chaotic when a large crowd surged towards the stage as Ghoshal appeared, prompting organisers to […]

Pune road accident: Truck rams multiple vehicles; six dead, several injured | India News

NEW DELHI: Six people were killed and at least eight others were injured in a road accident near Navale Bridge on the Pune–Bengaluru Highway on Thursday evening. According to officials, a container truck lost control and rammed into multiple vehicles. Two to three heavy vehicles caught fire following the collision.Videos from the scene showed a […]

30,000 troops, 25 ships, fighter jets: India showcases tri-service might in Exercise Trishul – watch | India News

NEW DELHI: India has concluded Exercise Trishul, a major tri-service drill involving 30,000 Army personnel, multiple fighter aircraft and 25 naval ships and submarines.In a display of joint operational strength, top commanders from the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth, Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan and Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, boarded aircraft […]

Bihar elections: ‘Tiger abhi zinda hai’ poster featuring Nitish surfaces; results to be out tomorrow | India News

NEW DELHI: Posters featuring Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar — with the caption “Tiger abhi zinda hai” — appeared outside the party office on Thursday, a day before the assembly election results.Former Bihar minister and JD(U) leader Ranjit Sinha put out a poster that read, “Protector of Dalits, Mahadalits, backward classes, upper castes, and minorities […]

Delhi car blast: Doc module planned multiple bombings | India News

NEW DELHI: Umar Un Nabi, confirmed by a DNA test as the bomber in Old Delhi, and his module had planned to carry out a “spectacular terror attack” with multiple vehicle-borne IEDs followed by firing with assault rifles. They had procured three vehicles – an i20, a red Ford Ecosport and a Brezza – for […]

Time to show transparency, says SC on courts reserving verdicts | India News

NEW DELHI: A bureaucrat would have faced harsh music for not complying with SC’s order, but HCs of Allahabad, Punjab and Haryana, Kerala, Patna, Telangana, Gauhati and J&K and Ladakh got away lightly on Wednesday for not complying with the apex court’s May 5 order seeking details of time-lapses between reserving verdicts and pronouncement of […]

NTPC scouting for nuclear plant land in 16 states | India News

NEW DELHI: State-run NTPC is scouting for land in 16 states for setting up nuclear power plants as the country’s largest thermal power producer prepares for life without coal and contribute towards the national net-zero goal, reports Sanjay Dutta.The move comes ahead of a govt plan to amend the Atomic Energy Act and Civil Liability […]