Kannur: A woman was arrested in Kerala’s Kannur on Tuesday night after she admitted of killing her parents and two children, police said. According to police, the 34-year-old woman confessed to her crime after nearly 11 hours of questioning. The woman, Soumya, reportedly killed her two daughters and parents after they objected to her […]
Lucknow: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned the BJP motormouths to keep quiet and not get carried away while making statements on “relevant issues”, Surendra Singh, a lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia on Tuesday said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was playing role of “Surpanakha”. He said Mamata being the CM […]
New Delhi: After a decade-long struggle for equal pension, all retired major generals, whether they superannuated before or after 1996, will get the same pension, as the Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it had decided to end the discriminatory monthly payouts. Retired major generals, through senior advocate Nidhesh Gupta, had been […]
New Delhi: A self-styled godman Asaram was on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment by Jodhpur court after holding him guilty of raping a teenage girl in his ashram five years ago. After Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim, Asaram is the second powerful spiritual leader being convicted Special judge Madhusudan Sharma’s verdict, which […]
Navi Mumbai:A massive fire broke out in a chemical factory in Navi Mumbai’s Belapur in the wee hours of Wednesday. The entire factory was gutted by the blaze. According to reports, the blaze is said to have razed four other factories in the area and destroyed property worth crores of rupees. As many as […]
Mumbai: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday lashed out at the Maharashtra government led by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, saying it was “good for nothing”, and demanded a separate Home Minister for the state. At present, Fadnavis holds the Home portfolio. Thackeray’s comments came after a local Sena leader, Sachin Sawant, was shot […]
Agartala: The Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), an ally of the ruling BJP in Tripura, threatened to launch a movement on Wednesday unless an “inter-ministerial modality committee” was formed within the next three months and also demanded another cabinet berth in the Biplab Kumar Deb ministry. The “inter-ministerial modality committee” would study the […]
New Delhi: The Congress party and many others on Twitter posted pictures and/or clips of a younger Narendra Modi keeping the company of Asaram who was today found guilty of raping a minor. The Congress captioned its undated photo and clips – in which Modi is seen paying obeisance to the man now convicted of […]
Bengaluru: Mocking at the Karnataka BJP unit, chief minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath “North Indian imports” in the May 12 election campaign and said it had no leaders in the state. Siddaramaiah also said BJP’s chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa had been […]
New Delhi: No untoward incident has been reported so far from anywhere in the country in the wake of the conviction of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu by a Jodhpur court today, the Home Ministry said. The ministry is also keeping itself abreast of the prevailing situation, particularly in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana, said a Home […]