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Ankit Dewan, after he was allegedly assaulted NEW DELHI: Air India Express Captain Virender Sejwal, who got into a brawl with a passenger, Ankit Dewan, at Delhi Airport’s Terminal 1 last Friday, has accused the latter of making “casteist remarks” and issuing “absolutely unfathomable threats to female members of his family including a child.” Issuing…

NEW DELHI: Amid concerns expressed in certain quarters over the possibility of expansion of mining activities in the Aravali Hills and Ranges in the wake of its new uniform definition, Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav on Sunday said it was absolutely wrong to conclude that the mining is permitted in all landforms below 100 metres…

NEW DELHI: Congress MP P Chidambaram on Sunday launched a sharp attack on Centre’s move to replace the MGNREGA, calling the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s name from the scheme the “second killing of Mahatma Gandhi.”Addressing a press conference in Chennai, Chidambaram said the Congress would continue to oppose the new law until the earlier employment…

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Kolkata on Sunday (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday shared his views on live-in relationships while addressing a gathering in Kolkata. Speaking during the centenary celebrations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bhagwat said live-in relationships reflected an unwillingness to take responsibility. “You’re not ready to take…

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday slammed Bihar governor Arif Mohammad Khan’s statement over hijab row that erupted after Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar removed naqab from a woman doctor’s face in an event. Party leader Pawan Khera described the incident as “an attempt to normalise a powerful, ageing politician publicly violating a young woman’s…

Shivraj Singh Chouhan (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Amid mounting attack from opposition parties, rural development minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday in a video message alleged that “once again, a conspiracy is underway to mislead the country in the name of MGNREGA” and said that that “Viksit Bharat – G Ram G scheme is…

Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday defended the government’s decision to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, insisting that the new law strengthens, rather than weakens, the legal right to rural employment.Responding to sharp opposition criticism, Chouhan…

Aravalli: Mountain older than memory If demography can be a dividend, geography certainly decides its destiny. Few landscapes illustrate this more clearly than the Aravalli Range, an ancient chain of hills that quietly shapes water security, climate, and life across western and northwestern India.The hills that run for nearly 690 km from Gujarat through Rajasthan…

File photo (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Security forces launched a search operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Sunday after terrorists allegedly took food from a house in a village before fleeing into a nearby forest, reported news agency PTI.According to officials, the joint operation involving police and paramilitary forces is underway in…

Representative image (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The higher reaches of Kashmir witnessed fresh snowfall while the plains received rain on Sunday, bringing relief to residents as Chillai-Kalan, the Valley’s harshest 40-day winter period, set in after a prolonged dry spell, as per PTI.Officials said snowfall was reported from the Gulmarg tourist resort in north…