JAMMU: The recent killing of three civilians in Billawar tehsil of Kathua district reverberated in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Monday, with chief minister Omar Abdullah condemning the incident and calling for a thorough probe. Omar and PDP’s Iltija Mufti also raised questions as to how only BJP politicians were allowed to meet the […]
NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav rebuked a BJP MLA‘s appeal to Muslims to “stay indoors” on Holi and said that Bihar was a state where “designs of RSS-BJP and Sangh Parivar have often been foiled.” Demanding an FIR against Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul, Yadav said, “It is not his father’s rule (baap ka […]
NEW DELHI: A fashion show held in Gulmarg during the holy month of Ramzan has triggered a massive row in Jammu and Kashmir.The BJP levelled accusations against Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, alleging that his family members own the hotel where the event took place. Omar clarified that it was a private function […]
NEW DELHI: Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat on Monday directed the cancellation of the Vanuatu passport issued to fugitive businessman Lalit Modi after recent international media reports.“I have instructed the citizenship commission to immediately begin proceedings to cancel Lalit Modi’s Vanuatu passport,” Napat said. “While all standard background checks, including Interpol screenings, conducted during his […]
Despite the National Medical Commission (NMC) deciding in September last year that not only doctors, but patients too can appeal to the Ethics and Medical Registration Board (EMRB) against decisions of state medical councils, on February 21 the EMRB rejected the appeal of a patient from Punjab.Incidentally, the EMRB is totally vacant since the tenure […]
KOLLAM: CPM’s state conference on Sunday unanimously re-elected M V Govindan as the party’s secretary of the Kerala unit. Unlike a decade ago, there was no factional dissent in the conference, with all members in the official panels getting elected unopposed.Only those in the good books of CM Pinarayi Vijayan, the de-facto leader of both […]
PUNE: A 25-year-old man urinated and flashed on a public road in Pune’s Yerawada early Saturday, sparking public outrage after a video of his act went viral and forcing him to surrender to police in Satara that same night.A Pune court on Sunday remanded Gaurav Ahuja in police custody until Monday, along with his friend […]
NEW DELHI: The rescue team on Sunday recovered one body from the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel which collapsed on February 22, trapping eight workers. The body was found stuck in a machine with only hand visible, the officials said.“We found one dead body stuck in the machine, with only the hand visible. The […]
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar was admitted to AIIMS Delhi early Sunday after experiencing uneasiness and chest pain, sources said. The 73-year-old was taken to the hospital around 2am and admitted to the Critical Care Unit (CCU) under the supervision of Dr Rajiv Narang, Head of Cardiology at […]
MUMBAI: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan secured a significant victory as the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) ruled in his favour, quashing reassessment proceedings and order initiated by the tax authorities for the 2011-12 financial year.Against an income of Rs 83.42 crore declared by the actor in his income-tax (I-T) return, the tax officer denied his […]
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