[ad_1] LUCKNOW: Reaffirming her decision to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections without any political alliance, BSP national president Mayawati on Thursday asked her party workers from the state units of UP and Uttrakhand to work hard to clinch power and work for the welfare of poor, deprived and neglected sections of the population, which…
[ad_1] New Delhi: The defence ministry on Thursday gave the preliminary approval for capital acquisition proposals worth Rs 2.23 lakh crore for the armed forces, which includes procurement of 97 more Tejas fighters and 156 Prachand light combat helicopters as well as a major upgrade of 84 existing Sukhoi-30MKI jets.Defence minister Rajnath Singh-led Defence Acquisitions…
[ad_1] ATTARI: Anju, a 34-year-old woman from Rajasthan who had abandoned her husband and two children for her “Facebook friend” Nasrullah, to marry whom she travelled to a remote village in Pakistan‘s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province earlier this year, is back in India. She crossed the Attari-Wagah border on Wednesday afternoon. However, Pakistani media quoted Nasrullah…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has refused to grant anticipatory bail to an IPS officer accused of impersonating the Chief Justice of Patna HC by creating a fake WhatsApp account in his name to influence judicial proceedings.A bench headed by Justice Aniruddha Bose directed the officer to surrender within two weeks, saying he is…
[ad_1] RANCHI: A 70-year-old Jharkhand man “died of anxiety” a few hours before his son was evacuated along with 40 other workers trapped in the under-construction Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand on Tuesday night, his family said.Baset alias Barsa Murmu was anxious for his son, 28-year-old Bhaktu, since he heard about the collapse of the tunnel…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: In a significant step towards women empowerment and healthcare, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with beneficiaries of the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra on Thursday at 11 am via video conferencing. The Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, an initiative undertaken across the country, aims to target the saturation of flagship government schemes, ensuring…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it intends to extend Delhi chief secretary Naresh Kumar’s tenure by six months and as and when the occasion for a new chief secretary’s appointment would arise, a panel of five senior IAS officers would be given to the Delhi chief minister to…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Asking a petitioner not to be “so narrow-minded“, the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed his petition seeking a complete ban on all kinds of association or employment of Pakistani artistes in India.A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and S V N Bhatti refused to interfere with the Bombay HC order which had…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Financial sanctions against entities named by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for their links to terrorism and terror financing should be imposed “without delay” and within 24 hours under the UAPA and a law against use of weapons of mass destruction, the government has directed regulatory and probe agencies.The Financial Intelligence…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Karnataka government on Tuesday said Election Commission‘s notice against its advertisements in poll-bound Telangana is not as per law. Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar said the advertisements do not ask for votes but only mention the welfare measures undertaken by his government. “We have not committed any violation. The Karnataka…
