KOLKATA: Bengal CMMamata Banerjee nominated MP and TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee to the all-party diplomatic mission abroad to counter Pakistan’s narrative after Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju called her Tuesday, a day after she took umbrage at Centre naming MP and ex-cricketer Yusuf Pathan to the panel.Mamata and Abhishek accused Centre of breaking…
AMRITSAR: Any suggestion that Golden Temple authorities allowed Army to deploy air defence weaponry on their premises to foil Pakistani attacks in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor is “utterly shocking and untrue”, the Sikh religious leadership said Tuesday, contesting a statement attributed to air defence in-charge Lt Gen Sumer Ivan D’Cunha.“No such permission was ever…
NEW DELHI: In the wake of the just-settled controversy triggered by Congress’ objections to govt picking its members for global outreach on Pakistan-sponsored terror, senior MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday called for bi-partisanship on matters of security like terrorism – a line also echoed by Congress MP Manish Tewari.Tharoor, who announced he would be heading…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday aggressively retaliated to Rahul Gandhi’s continuing charge that foreign minister S Jaishankar had “forewarned” Pakistan about strikes on terror targets under Operation Sindoor, saying the Congress MP was “a new age Mir Jafar”.The marked escalation in BJP’s attack on the issue led Congress to call Jaishankar a “Jaichand” – the…
NEW DELHI: Central intelligence agencies have begun tracking cross-border conversations, chats, emails and messages exchanged after May 7 – the day Operation Sindoor was launched – between persons in J&K and other border states, and elements based in Pakistan. The purpose, according to sources in the security establishment, is to identify the terror support cells…
NEW DELHI: Sub-inspector Geeta Samota has become the first CISF personnel to scale Mt Everest, the world’s highest peak at 8,849 metres. The feat is a culmination of her “seven summits” dream that took wing in 2019 with her becoming the first woman from a central armed police force to climb Mount Satopanth in Uttarakhand.Having…
Ashoka University associate professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, who was arrested on Sunday for his post on Operation Sindoor, was sent to judicial custody till May 27 by a court in Sonipat on Tuesday as his two-day police remand ended. Judicial magistrate (first class) Azad Singh gave his verdict at the end of a two-and-a-half-hour hearing…
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh minister for tribal affairs Vijay Shah – who faces a Supreme Court-ordered probe for his crass remarks on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi – was not seen at the state cabinet meeting in Indore on Tuesday even as a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) was constituted to probe the controversial remarks.The SIT was set…
R ANCHI: Jharkhand Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Tuesday arrested senior IAS officer Vinay Kumar Choubey and joint commissioner of excise department Gajendra Kumar Singh for their involvement in the alleged liquor scam in the state.Choubey, a 1999 batch IAS officer who was secretary to Hemant Soren in his previous term as CM, is at present principal…
LUCKNOW: Alert loco pilots foiled attempts to derail two major trains running from Delhi – Rajdhani Express and Kathgodam Express– by placing wooden logs on the track in UP’s Hardoi district, police said Tuesday. Though there was no official statement by the Indian Railways, the two incidents are being probed, and efforts are on to…
