PATNA/MUMBAI: The byelections in Bihar, scheduled for November 3, are likely to generate maximum heat as BJP and the JD(U)-RJD-Congress coalition will be facing each other for the first time at the hustings after CM Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the saffron party and their government collapsed on August 9. Nitish is already drumming up … Read more
NEW DELHI: Only 62% rural households in the country were found to have functional tap water connections with 38% of the total assessed households unable to reach the “functionality” levels in terms of meeting all three parameters of adequate quantity, fully regular supply and quality (potable). Overall functionality of household tap connection in the country … Read more
HYDERABAD: The Juvenile Justice Board Friday gave its consent to prosecute four of the five minors accused in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape, barring the son of a local MLA, as adults. The MLA’s son will be treated as a juvenile on the ground that the charge against him – assaulting a woman or using criminal … Read more
MUMBAI: The discount on the base fare that Air India (AI) offers to senior citizens and students will be slashed from 50% to 25% for all bookings done from September 29, said an internal circular by the airline on Thursday. The carrier will, however, continue to extend its 50% sop on base fare to other … Read more
A majority of women in West Bengal and Jharkhand were married by the age of 21, while the proportion in Jammu and Kashmir was less than 10% in 2020. In Delhi, over 17% of women married before 21. In the country as a whole, nearly 30% of women married by the time they were 21, … Read more
DEHRADUN: If your astrologer predicts that planetary positions in your horoscope are not good (bandhan yog) and you are likely to go to jail, do not get anxious. “Remedy” is at hand. The jail administration in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani has come up with a unique idea to help people ward off “bad karma” – for a … Read more
JAIPUR: Congress’s game of thrones in Rajasthan became further embroiled in intrigue on Monday after parliamentary affairs minister and Ashok Gehlot loyalist Shanti Dhariwal alleged a “100% conspiracy” against the chief minister by AICC’s state-in-charge Ajay Maken and the former’s bete noire Sachin Pilot. “A Congress general secretary is canvassing for a person who, despite … Read more
DEHRADUN: As Uttarakhand continued to simmer, the family of 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari, whose brutal murder rocked the Himalayan state like few other crimes in the recent past have, cremated her body in Srinagar in Pauri Garhwal on Sunday evening. The cremation was done in the presence of heavy police force and district administration officials after … Read more
NEW DELHI: The CBI on Saturday filed two FIRs and conducted pan-India raids at 59 locations in 21 states on the basis of inputs given by the Interpol’s units in New Zealand and Singapore regarding online circulation and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The raids were carried out after around 75 individuals were … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Russian ambassador to India, Denis Alipov, Friday accused the West of cherry-picking remarks from PM Narendra Modi’s statement before Russian President Vladimir Putin that suited their own interests and ignoring Modi’s comment about India sharing an unbreakable bond with Russia and his “loud and clear” commitment to expand ties with Moscow. Alipov … Read more