A day after an ASI was crushed to death by a drunk SUV driver in MP’s Chhindwara, a policeman was on Friday shot dead by a criminal when a team tried to arrest him in a village in Seoni district. Head constable Rakesh Thakur was part of a routine police operation when he was killed. … Read more
BENGALURU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated Boeing‘s new global engineering and technology campus near Bengaluru.Built at a cost of Rs 1,600 crore, the 43-acre state-of-the-art Boeing India Engineering and Technology Centre (BIETC) campus is the aviation giant’s largest such investment outside the US.The campus at Hightech Defence and Aerospace Park in Devanahalli on … Read more
A three-year-old male tiger from Rajasthan’s Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) ventured into the state’s Khuskhera region in Bhiwadi district, nearly 100km from the park, and attacked a farmer Thursday. The tiger, identified as 2303, charged at Raghuveer Yadav, 75, when he was changing irrigation pipes in his mustard field. He suffered wounds from the tiger’s … Read more
TIRUPATI: The world renowned Tirupati trust has immersed itself in the preparation of one lakh laddus meant to be distributed among the devotees attending the Ayodhya Ram mandir consecration ceremony on January 22.The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams trust which administers the affairs of the richest Hindu temple of Lord Venkateswara Swamy at Tirumala recently announced its … Read more
NEW DELHI: A special investigation team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against five suspects in the case of looting of arms and ammunition from Manipur Police Training College in May last year.According to the FIR, a mob had stormed the complex in Imphal’s Pangei and had taken away a … Read more
NEW DELHI: Former Haryana chief minister and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda was on Wednesday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, official sources said. The agency recorded the statement of the 76-year-old under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said. He was at the ED … Read more
NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar has decided to not attend the pran pratishtha ceremony of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on January 22. In a letter addressed to Champat Rai, the General Secretary of Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra, Pawar expressed his intention to visit Ayodhya at a later date for “darshan”.Expressing … Read more
NEW DELHI: India recorded 180 new Covid cases as active infections dropped to 2,804, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Within the last 24 hours, Maharashtra sees three fatalities, according to the 8 am update.Daily cases had dwindled to double digits until December 5, 2023, but surged again due to a new variant and cold … Read more
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday greeted Indian Army personnel and their family members on the occasion on 76th Army Day, saying “you manifest Bharat’s Himalayan courage protecting our sovereignty and safeguarding our progress to the pinnacle of civilization.”“Warm greetings to our Army personnel and their family members on #ArmyDay.You manifest Bharat’s … Read more
MUMBAI: Former Union minister and ex-MP from Mumbai South Milind Deora quit Congress and hours later joined Shiv Sena on the day Rahul Gandhi launched his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, ending his family’s 55-year association with the grand old party.Deora’s resignation all but completes the exodus of the original band of young dynasts – referred … Read more
