AMBERNATH: In a fresh twist to the political drama in the Ambernath municipal council, a day after 12 suspended Congress councillors joined BJP, all four councillors from the Ajit Pawar-led NCP withdrew their support to the BJP-led front and extended it to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena. With this, Sena, which had emerged the single-largest […]
NEW DELHI: Nasik-Rural, Pune-Rural, Patna, Ahmednagar, Purba Medinipur, Solapur-Rural, Muzaffarpur, Belagavi, Kanpur and Bulandshahr are among the top in 100 districts in the country that have recorded a high number of road deaths, as per a presentation made at the recent state transporters meet in Delhi. The list has been prepared based on road deaths […]
MEERUT: After razing at least 17 mosques and other structures in Sambhal, the district administration has escalated its crackdown on “illegal” encroachments by imposing heavy financial penalties on the structures built on government and pond land. On Thursday, tehsildar Dhirendra Pratap Singh announced that violators would face a fine exceeding Rs 75 lakh for six […]
Maharashtra BJP president Ravindra Chavan received the councillors on Thursday MUMBAI: Despite reservations within BJP, the 12 councillors in Ambernath suspended by Congress for ‘anti-party activities’ joined the saffron party Thursday. State BJP chief Ravindra Chavan received the 12 councillors at a function, raising questions not only from opposition but also from within his own […]
SANTINIKETAN: The age gap between Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and his late mother, Amita Sen, is around 19-and-a-half years. But on Wednesday, an SIR hearing notice reached his Santiniketan house, Pratichi, because the EC found that the age difference was below 15 years.As per the 2025 SIR draft roll, the age of Amartya Sen is […]
Representative image (PTI Photo) JAMMU: A gun battle broke out between security forces and terrorists in the forests in the upper reaches of Billawar, in J&K’s Kathua district, on Wednesday, where a group of two-three ultras was suspected to be hiding. Around 4pm that evening, locals had reported spotting a terror suspect in Kamad Nallah […]
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday took a dig at the western hypocrisy during India’s military response under Operation Sindoor, declaring India does not need the West’s free advice. “Why don’t you look at your own region for levels of violence?” he remarked.Speaking to members of the Indian community in Luxembourg, Jaishankar […]
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of “surrendering” under “pressure” and contrasted his leadership with that of former prime minister Indira Gandhi.Gandhi’s remarks came a day after US President Donald Trump, speaking at the House GOP Member Retreat, claimed that PM […]
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court under the leadership of CJI Surya Kant maintained its stand for equitable distribution of judicial time for litigants irrespective of their status, and said on Tuesday that the rich and influential could not bypass tiers of judiciary to move the SC directly.When an accused sought hearing of his petition challenging validity […]
NEW DELHI: Over 9,000 birds across 131 species were spotted along Yamuna floodplains in the capital during the Asian Waterbird Census this weekend.The survey, carried out by a group of nearly 20 birders in collaboration with eBird, an online avian database, flagged several ecological threats to the habitat, including illegal sand mining on the floodplains, […]
