Varanasi: The BJP is set to flex its organisational muscle at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Nari Shakti Vandana Sammelan, with top leaders arriving in force. State president Pankaj Chaudhary and state general secretary (organisation) Dharampal Singh Saini landed first to oversee preparations.BJP national president Nitin Nabin is also expected to land in Kashi on his…
Ahmedabad: On Sunday, India lost Raghu Rai, one of its most faithful witnesses. A celebrated photojournalist whose images of Bhopal gas tragedy stirred the world’s conscience, Rai had spent his life ensuring nothing important went unseen. His portraits of Mother Teresa became the way many outside India understood her. He was the man Henri Cartier-Bresson…
Shimla: Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Monday inaugurated a 500-KW solar power plant at Dharech in Shimla district, making it Himachal Pradesh’s first green panchayat.Built at an estimated cost of Rs 1.94 crore, the project began in Jan 2025 and was successfully connected to the electricity grid on March 30 this year. The plant…
Guwahati: Congress leader Pawan Khera on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Gauhati High Court order rejecting his anticipatory bail plea in a case registered by Assam Police over his alleged remarks against CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife.Khera approached the apex court after the HC last week declined to grant him anticipatory bail in…
Lucknow: An 85-year-old resident of Indira Nagar has been duped of Rs 9.5 lakh in a sophisticated “digital arrest” cyber fraud, where scammers posing as officials of the National Investigation Agency allegedly kept him under psychological pressure for nearly three days.According to police, the victim received a WhatsApp video call on April 6 from fraudsters…
Jaisalmer: A woman and two goats were killed in a hit-and-run after a speeding Bolero Camper hit them on the Bharat Mala Road in Barmer district on Monday morning, police said.The woman was identified as Badli Devi, wife of Krishnaram, a resident of Bawdi Kalan village in Chauhtan. She was heading to the fields to…
BJP president Nitin Nabin (second, right) welcomes Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, others to BJP New Delhi: Rajya Sabha chairman C P Radhakrishnan has officially accepted the merger of seven AAP MPs with BJP – taking the governing party’s strength in the 245-member upper House to 113.With Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan…
A proposed US immigration rule backed by the Trump administration could effectively halt work authorisation for asylum seekers indefinitely, according to a coalition of state attorneys general who have urged federal officials to withdraw the plan.California Attorney General Rob Bonta has led a group of states in opposing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal,…
Donald and Melania Trump have both called for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel on Monday after a joke last week in which the late-night comic described the first lady as having “the glow of an expectant widow.”The remark about the president’s wife was part of a routine on Thursday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” where the host…
Mumbai Indians’ Mitchell Santner (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Struggling Mumbai Indians have been dealt a significant blow in the middle of IPL 2026, with New Zealand all-rounder Mitchell Santner ruled out of the remainder of the tournament due to a shoulder injury. The development comes at a time when MI are already reeling in the…
