NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Arvind Sawant on Wednesday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urging him to deline any “recognition, status, privilege or facility” to any “purported faction or breakaway group claiming to represent the party”.“The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) continues to be recognised as a single political party represented in…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Donald Trump for the first time in 16 months at the G7 in France, and also had formal bilateral meetings with Canadian PM Mark Carney, UK PM Keir Starmer and UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.Modi and Trump participated in an outreach session sitting next to each…
MUMBAI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted searches at 17 locations across Delhi, Mumbai, and Khandala linked to Suraksha Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (SARCL) promoter Sudhir Valia and other senior executives in connection with an alleged bank fraud case involving the company and Yes Bank’s former co-promoter Rana Kapoor.ED is probing a money laundering case…
NEW DELHI: For Rohit (26), who left his village in Bihar for Delhi in search of a better future, life has turned upside down after the June 3 fire at the Hauz Rani bed and breakfast.Rohit worked in the B&B kitchen. He was on duty when the blaze broke out.Fearing for two colleagues from his…
MUMBAI: Amid speculation that some Lok Sabha MPs of the Shiv Sena (UBT) may be headed to the Dy CM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, there were reports on Tuesday evening that 6 of the Uddhav Thackeray camp’s 9 LS MPs could reach New Delhi on Wednesday. Sena functionaries said Eknath Shinde could also reach the…
BHOPAL: A sex racket allegedly luring unsuspecting men into a maze of blackmail, extortion and false rape threats has taken a darker turn in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind, where police found that one of two women arrested in the case has been undergoing treatment for HIV the past 3 years.The racket was busted nearly 3 weeks…
NEW DELHI: El Nino – a climatic phenomenon associated with weak monsoon in India – may pose a risk for farming operations this year, but what provides hope is that the country could effectively manage its impact in 2023 when India reported ‘below normal’ rainfall due to strong El Nino. The year 2015, which saw…
Representative image (ANI) SRINAGAR: Over two months after being killed in an alleged encounter in north Kashmir’s Ganderbal and branded a “terrorist” by the Army, authorities handed over the body of a 28-year-old man to his family for final rites even as a magisterial inquiry continues into the shootout.The handover of Rashid Mughal’s remains marks…
SRINAGAR: Ladakh will soon have a conservation society for its snow leopards. Lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena approved its constitution on Tuesday. The union territory houses the maximum number of snow leopards in the country.The society, Snow leopard and High-Altitude Nature (SHAN), will work under the department of environment and forests, Ladakh, and act as…
The opposition parties on Tuesday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi following his interaction with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 Summit.They alleged that the Prime Minister failed to assert India’s position after the deaths of three Indian nationals in a recent US military strike.Congress questions PM’s diplomatic postureCongress leaders shared a…