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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, while addressing a rally in Singur, West Bengal, said that the people of the state are determined to oust the ruling Trinamool Congress and bring an end to the 15-year “maha-jungleraj” of the Mamata Banerjee-led government.PM Modi was in West Bengal to launch development projects worth over…

NEW DELHI: An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in the Chatroo area of Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, officials said.The J&K Police confirmed that an operation is currently underway, according to ANI.No casualties have been reported so far, and further details are awaited. New Army Video Highlights Operation Sindoor Strikes…

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis with his deputy Eknath Shinde (File photo) NEW DELHI: Even as the BJP–Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena combine enjoys a numerical edge in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), clarity on power-sharing remains elusive, fuelling speculation that the post-election churn in Mumbai is far from over. Adding to the uncertainty, the Shinde faction…

PM Modi in Assam (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, saying the country has placed its faith in the BJP for the past one-and-a-half years and that the party has been on a “continuous rise.”Hailing the major victories of the BJP, after a brief…

NEW DELHI: Amid rising speculation over different views within the party over its alliance with DMK, the Congress’ top brass led by party President Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday gave a clear directions to its leaders from Tamil Nadu to “maintain discipline and refrain from making statements including on social media on these matters”. They have…

BHOPAL: Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya caused outrage with his remarks on Friday that on seeing a beautiful woman “one can get distracted and rape may follow”. The MLA had then continued in the same appalling manner, saying that women from the SC, ST and OBC communities are “not beautiful” but were raped because of…

BATHINDA/LUCKNOW: Five tourists from Banaskantha in Gujarat, including a policewoman, died in Punjab, while three labourers were killed in UP in road accidents caused due to dense fog on Saturday morning.The tourists, all in their late 20s and early 30s, were on their way back to Banaskantha when their SUV slammed into a road divider…

One of the arrested men, Neelakandan, who fractured his right leg while trying to escape from police CHENNAI: Two men were killed and another was critically injured in an attack outside a hotel in Tamil Nadu‘s Tiruvallur Friday night following a road-rage incident. Police have arrested four suspects, including office-bearers of Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam and…

JALPAIGURI/KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday made a fervent appeal to Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant to safeguard democracy and ensure that investigative agencies do not defame citizens.“Our safety, security, history, geography, and boundaries must all be protected. The media should not conduct trials before cases are finalised… We are under…

Abhishek Banerjee (File photo) KOLKATA/BEHRAMPORE: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee Saturday blamed BJP politicians and a “new gaddar (traitor)” for stoking violence in Beldanga, a town in Murshidabad district bordering Bangladesh, and urged residents to deny the opposition party political space.“Stop providing oxygen to BJP,” Banerjee told a public rally in Behrampore. He…