Category: India

[ad_1] NEW YORK: India has emphasised the need to address growing state complicity in suppressing the activities of transnational criminal groups, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ruchira Kamboj said on Thursday (local time). Speaking at a United Nations Security Council debate on ‘Threats to International Peace and Security: Transnational Organized Crime, Growing Challenges…

[ad_1] dKALABURGI: A 40-year-old advocate, who was on his way to the district court in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi, was chased and hacked to death by two-three assailants around 11am on Thursday, barely 200 metres from his house .Police said the assailants threw chilli powder into his eyes, indiscriminately hit him with a sickle and later crushed…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: After accepting the resignation of Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar, President Droupadi Murmu has given the Agriculture ministry, which was held by Tomar, to Arjun Munda.Munda, former CM of Jharkhand, is currently the tribal affairs minister in PM Modi’s cabinet.Tomar resigned as MP after winning Madhya Pradesh’s Dimani assembly seat in the…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The suspense over BJP‘s chief ministerial picks for Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh will be over by this Sunday, the party’s national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya has said.When asked by reporters whether BJP has taken any decision on its CM candidates, Vijayvargiya said that a clear picture will emerge by December 10.He,…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah Thursday hailed the inclusion of Gujarat‘s traditional Garba dance in its ‘Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’, saying it is an accolade for the beauty and resilience of the country’s culture. Unesco has approved the inclusion of Gujarat’s traditional Garba dance in its ‘Representative…

[ad_1] BIJNOR: TV and film actor Bhupinder Singh‘s three accomplices, Gyan Singh, Jivan Singh and Gurjant Singh – who were armed with lathis while the actor gunned down a neighbour, Govind Singh, and injured three of his family members on December 3 – have also been been arrested.All four face charges under IPC Sections 302…

[ad_1] BENGALURU: A 15-hour delay of a SpiceJet flight to Mumbai left over 190 passengers stranded at Bengaluru airport on Wednesday. Passengers were at their wit’s end as the airline allegedly failed to give a proper explanation for the delay. The airline later confirmed that a technical snag in the aircraft had caused the situation….

[ad_1] AIZAWL: ZPM leader legislature party leader Lalduhoma will be sworn in as the new chief minister of Mizoram on Friday, a Raj Bhavan official said. Besides Lalduhoma other members of his council of ministers will also be sworn in on Friday at 11 am in a function at the Raj Bhavan, the official said…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The number of accidental deaths in India increased to 4.3 lakh in 2022, the maximum in last five years, from 3.9 lakh in 2021. Road and rail traffic crashes had a high 46% share of these fatalities, followed by drowning, falls and poisoning.According to the NCRB report, Maharashtra reported the highest number…

[ad_1] US-based pro-Khalistan terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has threatened to take action that will “shake the very foundations of Parliament” on or before December 13, the anniversary of the 2001 attack. This, he said in a statement, was in response to “India’s foiled assassination” bid on him.Pannun, who has dual citizenship of the US and…