CHANDIGARH: Polling for all the 90 Assembly seats in Haryana began on Saturday morning amid tight security arrangements, officials said. The fate of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Congress leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Vinesh Phogat, besides the JJP’s Dushyant Chautala and 1,027 other candidates, will be decided in the polls in […]
PORT LOUIS: Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth on Friday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for “completing our decolonisation” a day after the UK government announced to hand over sovereignty of the remote Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to the country. Jugnauth took to X to thank Modi as he […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s authorities sealed off the capital Islamabad on Friday to foil a planned protest by the Tehreek-i-Insaf of former premier Imran Khan to show solidarity with the judiciary and increase pressure to release the former prime minister from the jail. The call for protest was given by a 71-year-old cricketer-turned-politician who […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday constituted an independent special investigation team to conduct probe into allegations of use of animal fat in making Tirupati laddus. The special investigation team (SIT) will comprise two officials each from the CBI and the Andhra Pradesh Police besides a senior FSSAI official. The […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the Union Cabinet’s approval of the Phase 2 of the Chennai Metro Rail project will help in easing traffic and improving sustainability and economic growth. He said on X, “Boosting ‘Ease of Living’ in a vibrant city! I congratulate the people of […]
New Delhi: The CBI arrested an NIA deputy superintendent of police posted in Patna and two middlemen on Thursday for allegedly accepting a Rs 20 lakh bribe to extend favours to a person in an ongoing probe, officials said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had received a complaint from Rocky Yadav, […]
JAMMU: A brief exchange of fire took place between security forces and terrorists during a search operation in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, officials said. Based on specific inputs about the presence of terrorists, the security forces launched a joint search operation in Chatroo, a police spokesperson said. […]
HYDERABAD: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned former Indian cricket captain and Congress politician Mohammad Azharuddin for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged financial irregularities in the Hyderabad Cricket Association, official sources said Thursday. The 61-year-old former Member of Parliament was asked to depose before the federal agency at its […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced two persons, including ex-MLA Munna Shukla, to life imprisonment in the 1998 murder case of former Bihar minister Brij Bihari Prasad. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Sanjay Kumar and R Mahadevan partially set aside the Patna High Court verdict acquitting all the accused […]