NEW DELHI: Not a single repoll has been recommended across the 44,376 polling stations in West Bengal and the 75,064 polling stations in Tamil Nadu, EC sources told TOI on Friday. This is a break from the pattern of multiple repolls recommended in the past elections, particularly in Bengal, on account of political violence and…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh visited German company ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems’ (TKMS) submarine building facility in Kiel, where he was briefed on advanced naval technologies and capabilities. He was accompanied by German defence minister Boris Pistorius during the visit to the shipbuilding facility.The visit comes as India moves closer to finalising its nearly Rs…
NEW DELHI: Former chief economic adviser Ashok Lahiri is set to be named the new vice-chairman of Niti Aayog, replacing Suman Bery. Gobardhan Das, the director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, is to be nominated as a member of the govt’s premier think tank. Lahiri is currently a BJP MLA…
NEW DELHI: Opposition MPs in Rajya Sabha on Friday submitted to the secretary general a fresh notice seeking to move a motion to remove Gyanesh Kumar as chief election commissioner on the ground of “proven misbehaviour”.Earlier this month, notices submitted by opposition MPs in both LS and RS were rejected by the speaker and the…
NEW DELHI: Renowned legal experts highlighted the Tenth Schedule’s inability to stop political defections when they acquire the scale of “merger” and said joining of BJP by seven AAP Rajya Sabha MPs led by Raghav Chadha would not fall foul of the anti-defection law, which approves two-thirds of a legislature party to break away and…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday hailed the record 92 per cent voter turnout in the first phase of West Bengal assembly elections as a sign of robust democratic process in the country, after dealing with petitions challenging the special intensive revision, and deploying judicial officers for a fair scrutiny. A bench of Chief…
Sanjay Singh, Sant Balbir Singh and ND Gupta (R) NEW DELHI: The rift within the Aam Aadmi Party saw a major escalation on Friday as Raghav Chadha led a major exodus, resulting in seven AAP MPs joining the Bharatiya Janata Party. However, out of the party’s total strength of 10 MPs, only three members have…
SRINAGAR: BJP leader Sushil Sharma’s jibe at Omar Abdullah, calling him a “shehzaada” (prince) and saying the Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood can’t be restored just because he is demanding it, evoked a scathing response from the chief minister, who Friday said denial of statehood would be betrayal of promises made to the people of J&K.Sharma,…
SRINAGAR: J&K authorities announced Friday detentions of six people under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) for allegedly inciting “law and order disturbances” and “acts of vandalism” during a recent students’ protest in Kashmir’s Sopore.The students were protesting against a schoolteacher accused of molestation and later taken into custody.Police said Umar Akbar Hajam, Salman Ahmed…
JAMMU: A tribal nomad from Murrah Hill Kaka, who joined anti-insurgency operations in the then terrorism-infested Poonch district in J&K after quitting a job in Saudi Arabia to avenge his brother’s killing and earned respect in his area as “Hero of Hill Kaka”, has died of a heart attack at the age of 62.Tahir Fazal…
