Varanasi: Hectic preparations are underway for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency on Tuesday afternoon, where he will inaugurate an exhibition showcasing over Rs 60,000 crore in development works carried out in Varanasi during his govt.District administration and police officials are on extra alert due to the strong possibility that the…
Gandhinagar: Residents of Dela village situated in Mehsana Municipal Corporation limits boycotted the civic body’s first election, with none of its residents turning up to vote between 7am and 6pm. The village is protesting its inclusion in the corporation limits. Dela was included within Ward 4 of the municipal corporation, and the polling station was…
Ludhiana: A major fire gutted a plastic factory in a residential pocket of Khanna on Sunday morning, forcing neighbours to flee their homes and sparking fresh allegations of illegal industrial operations in the township.The blaze, fuelled by stockpiles of flammable plastic, erupted around 7am on Kabza Factory Road. While multiple fire crews managed to contain…
Chandigarh: The AICC general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP, Randeep Singh Surjewala, on Sunday accused the BJP of conspiring to make Haryana illiterate.Highlighting the 18% drop in school admissions in Haryana during the current academic year, Surjewala said the Nayab Saini govt had “locked up the future of youth” as parents and students were left…
Pune: Two sub-inspectors and a police constable ran behind a stolen PMPML bus going from Good Luck Chowk to Natraj Chowk and managed to enter. Two of them pressed the brake with their hands when the driver tried to accelerate and averted a major tragedy on Saturday evening.The three cops along with a few citizens…
Silchar: Three people from Assam’s Dholai area were killed on Saturday after a goods-laden truck plunged into a deep gorge, near Keifang, along NH-06 on the Aizawl–Champhai road in Mizoram, officials said on Sunday.The deceased have been identified as Shahin Ahmed Laskar (28), Rahim Uddin Laskar (24), and Ruhul Amin Laskar (22), all residents of…
Lucknow: Ghazipur district administration imposed prohibitory orders under Section 163 till Apr 30, banning all protests, processions and entry of political delegations in view of tensions following the Apr 15 case of Nisha Vishwakarma’s death in Kataria village. On Friday, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav announced his plan to visit Karanda on Apr 29.District magistrate Anupam…
Rajkot: A mix of apathy, determination and frustration marked the civic body elections in Rajkot on Sunday, as sluggish voter turnout through the first half contrasted sharply with the resolve shown by sections of the electorate who braved multiple hurdles to cast their ballots.Polling stations witnessed early morning queues of senior citizens, local political figures,…
Jaisalmer: The Rajasthan High Court has imposed an interim stay on the felling of trees on land allotted for a solar energy project in Baiya village of Jaisalmer district.The order was passed Friday after the hearing of a PIL, in which the petitioners claimed that the site in question was part of sacred oran land…
Rahul Gandhi (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress’ Rahul Gandhi on Sunday alleged it is not democracy but “TMC’s reign of terror” that prevails in West Bengal today. “Intimidating, attacking, and eliminating opposing voices after votes are cast – this has become TMC’s defining character,” he said, ahead of the second phase of assembly polls in…
