SRINAGAR: J&K Omar Abdullah Saturday praised the Centre for being generous in allocating funds to J&K, but said the same magnanimity had not been shown in the matter of restoring statehood.Omar said he had no hesitation in acknowledging and thanking the Centre’s efforts where it had delivered. “I am not among those who practise politics…
SRINAGAR: Days after J&K CM Omar Abdullah described the “vote chori” as an issue of the Congress alone and said the INDIA bloc had “nothing to do with it,” the party on Saturday said being in alliance does not negate a constituent’s political ideology.“Omar Abdullah was present in various meetings of the INDIA bloc, whether…
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale has never been about polished spectacle. Instead of wine and cheese, there are fried banana fritters, a curator dressed in shorts, with some works unfinished and others still finding their rhythm. Neelam Raaj spoke to curator Nikhil Chopra on why he wanted to blur hierarchies and invite viewers to experience contemporary art…
BHOPAL: While the controversy over IAS officer Santosh Verma’s remark against Brahmins at the Anusuchit Jati and Janjati Adhikari Evam Karmachari Sangh (AJAKS) State Convention in Bhopal on Nov 23 refuses to die down, another video of a woman IAS officer, Meenakshi Singh has surfaced in Madhya Pradesh in which she is heard advocating caste-based…
LUCKNOW: Police on Saturday lodged an FIR against two doctors and the manager of a private hospital for alleged medical negligence following the death of a man after a surgery for kidney stone removal in Rae Bareli.Lodging a complaint at Kotwali Nagar police station, Santosh Kumar Gupta said his son Deepak Gupta, 22, was suffering…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday ordered the release of Christian James Michel from custody in a money laundering case linked to the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam, holding that he has already spent the ‘maximum period’ of incarceration prescribed for the offence.Allowing Michel’s plea seeking release in the case filed by ED, special CBI…
JAMSHEDPUR: Fog hung low over the road as a young father stepped out of a govt hospital in Jharkhand’s Chaibasa with nothing left to save. Inside a plastic grocery bag pressed close to his chest lay the body of his four-month-old son. No ambulance was ready. No money remained. So he turned towards a public…
NEW DELHI: Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) audit tabled in Parliament on Thursday flagged serious shortcomings in Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS), pointing to inadequate hospital coverage, long-pending manpower shortages, delayed payments and infrastructure gaps that have affected healthcare access for retired defence personnel and their families.It reviewed the scheme’s performance between 2018-19 and 2022-23…
KOLKATA: Football legend Lionel Messi‘s India Tour event organiser and the prime accused in the Salt Lake Stadium chaos, Satadru Dutta, has claimed “influential people” pressured him to triple the number of access cards for the event. This, he claimed, led to Messi feeling “unhappy about being touched or hugged” by random people.Dutta, arrested within…
Srinagar: A special court in Jammu and Kashmir Saturday issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen outfit supreme commander Mohammad Yousuf Shah alias Syed Salah-ud-Din in a 2012 UAPA case.A court of special judge, designated under the NIA act in central Kashmir’s Budgam ruled, “Mohammad Yousuf Shah alias Syed Salah-ud-Din is evading arrest…
