NEW DELHI: A husband-wife spat reportedly turned so ugly on an Amritsar-Delhi flight Saturday and when a co-passenger tried to intervene, the man ended up having the fight with the latter too. The cabin crew then took co-passenger to business class to seat him away from the angry husband, who was handed over to security…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday reacted to his cryptic bird post, apparently directed towards the party’s top leadership. Tharoor dismissed to talk about his reported rift with the grand old party publicly, and said that if there were issues to discuss, they would be “discussed privately”.“I am not going to get into…
NEW DELHI: The Chief Justice of India BR Gavai on Saturday supported the abrogation of Article 370 and said that in order to keep the country united, “we need only one Constitution”. He recalled when the case was brought before the Supreme Court, the five-judge bench unanimously upheld the Centre’s decision to abrogate Article 370…
A suicide bombing by the Pakistani Taliban kills 16 soldiers in North Waziristan. Prime Minister Modi makes a veiled reference to Operation Sindoor during a spiritual event, drawing strong audience reactions.Light rain brings relief to Delhi-NCR under an orange alert. PM Modi also interacts with Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla aboard the ISS as part of…
NEW DELHI: Light rainfall brought relief to parts of Delhi-NCR on Saturday, as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an ‘orange’ alert for the city, forecasting light to moderate showers accompanied by thunderstorms and gusty winds over the next few hours.The IMD stated that winds may reach speeds of 30 to 50 kilometres per hour,…
Tejashwi Yadav (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: RJD leader and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of influencing the Election Commission (EC) ahead of the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. He alleged that the Prime Minister has instructed the poll body to…
NEW DELHI: The government on Saturday appointed Parag Jain as the new Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) chief. Parag Jain is a 1989-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer known for his crucial role in the high-stakes Operation Sindoor. Jain will succeed Ravi Sinha, who is set to complete his tenure on June 30.Parag Jain is…
Vice-President Jadgeep Dhankhar NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday called the Preamble as the ‘soul of the Constitution’ and hit out at the Indira Gandhi-led government for ‘changing something which is not changeable and alterable.‘Speaking at a book launch event, Dhankhar acknowledged that India was the only country where the Preamble had been…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI) over its voter verification drive in Bihar and West Bengal, claiming it resembled a covert attempt to introduce the National Register of Citizens (NRC) through the back door. “The EC is trying to bring the NRC in…
NEW DELHI: A female law student was allegedly gangraped on her college campus in South Kolkata’s Kasba, sparking citywide outrage. Coming nearly a year after the RG Kar case, the incident has reignited women’s safety concerns and led to a political slugfest between ruling TMC and its main opposition party – BJP in state.BJP leader…
