New Delhi: Former Indian Navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash (retired) on Monday reportedly submitted all the necessary documents linking him to the electoral roll from last special intensive revision (SIR), paving the way for early resolution of the matter relating to the system-driven notice issued to him after all the fields in his enumeration form…
LUCKNOW: Residents of Parsa village in Kushinagar who rushed out after hearing screams were met with a scene of horror Monday – a man clobbering his wife and mother to death on the roof of their house, smashing their heads with a brick, and cannibalising them, reports Pathikrit Chakraborty. Sikandar Gupta, 30, was arrested at…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: The discovery of several Aadhaar, PAN, and voter identity cards in a garbage heap at Savarkar Chowk in Jalna city Sunday, barely three days ahead of the municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra, has raised concerns, reports Mohammed Akhef. Officials said the model code of conduct cell received a complaint, stating that 17 Aadhaar…
NEW DELHI: Retail inflation inched up to a three-month high in Dec, led by narrowing deflation in some food prices and fading favourable base effect, but remained below the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) tolerance level for the fourth month in a row.Data released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Monday showed retail inflation,…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Monday wrote to CEC Gyanesh Kumar for the second time in 48 hours, alleging that EC was not issuing proper acknowledgments of documents submitted during SIR hearings and was instead marking them “not found” to disenfranchise genuine voters, reports Debashis Konar. She said, “The non-issuance of documentary acknowledgment deprives electors…
NEW DELHI: A National Joint Outbreak Response Team was rushed to West Bengal after two suspected cases of Nipah virus disease were identified on Sunday at the Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL) of the Indian Council of Medical Research at All India Institute of Medical Sciences Kalyani. Given Nipah’s high fatality rate and potential…
NEW DELHI: Foreign secretary Vikram Misri said on Monday that India has stepped up its engagement at the “highlest level” with German authorities over the case of Ariha Shah, an Indian child who has remained in foster care in Germany for over 40 months. The government is stressing that the matter should be addressed through…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Election Commission of India (ECI) one week to respond to fresh interim pleas filed by two Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs, alleging “arbitrariness and procedural lapses” in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the party-run West Bengal.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI)…
NEW DELHI: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Monday successfully flight tested third generation Fire & Forget Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM), which has a top attack capability against a moving target.A video released from a desert test range shows a successful missile firing during a weapons trial conducted in the KK Ranges…
NEW DELHI: Speculations are rife over a possible merger between the two factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) after Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule hinted at a reunion in the future.This comes as both Ajit Pawar’s NCP and NCP(Sharad Pawar) decided to join hands to contest the upcoming local body…
