GORAKHPUR: Gorakhpur’s iconic Bale Miyan fair will not take place this year amid claims by the organisers that local authorities in BJP-governed UP have not granted clearance. This will be the first break in the 900-year-old tradition of the fair held in the name of Syed Salar Masud Ghazi, believed to be one of Mahmud…
NEW DELHI: Days after clearing fresh assistance despite India’s strong opposition, International Monetary Fund (IMF) has flagged that heightened tension with its neighbour could increase the “enterprise risk” for Pakistan’s agreed reforms, while also cautioning about “reputational risk” due to a perception of fund diversion.Setting out 11 new structural benchmarks for reforms under the bailout…
CJI Gavai during the State Lawyers’ Conference in Mumbai Sunday MUMBAI: Amidst the debate over the timelines set by the SC for governors and the President, Chief Justice of India Bhushan Gavai on Sunday said neither the judiciary nor the executive or the legislature had an upper hand, but rather it is the Constitution of…
HYDERABAD: The sight of an elderly woman’s charred body tightly hugging four children – all of them dead – will haunt first responders Mir Zahid and Mohd Azmat for a long time.“When we managed to get inside the building and reached the first floor, we saw this woman with her arms around the kids –…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has requested support from eight non-BJP state leaders. He wants a united legal challenge. This challenge is against the President’s reference to the Supreme Court. The reference concerns the powers of governors. Stalin fears this move weakens state autonomy. He believes it undermines the federal structure of the Constitution….
Four cattle smugglers arrested in encounter VARANASI: A cattle smuggler was killed while two others were injured in an encounter while they were trying to escape after crushing a police constable to death in UP’s Jaunpur late Saturday night.Within hours of this incident, another encounter between cattle smugglers and police took place in neighbouring district…
At least 50 people had a miraculous escape in a similar fire some 8km away at a residential building in Hyderabad’s Mailardevpally. Those rescued include children as young as 15 months to 2 years. The fire broke out at 7.18am in a building which houses 10-15 families, at Mughal Colony in Udamgadda. The blaze began…
NEW DELHI: Abu Saifullah, a high-ranking Lashkar-e-Taiba operative and key recruiter, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan’s Sindh province early on Sunday, dealing a significant blow to the terror outfit, already reeling from the aftermath of Operation Sindoor.Saifullah had been overseeing the group’s operations in Nepal, and was a key plotter in multiple…
Destroyed Paksitani drones PUNE: IAF and Southern Command’s Air Defence brigade neutralised approximately 70 Pakistani drones, including a Turkish-origin Songar armed drone, in Bhuj and Naliya in Gujarat and Rajasthan, during Operation Sindoor, reports Sandip Dighe. Southern Army Commander Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth recently toured the forward area units and interacted with troops deployed in…
Haryana YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra BHUBANESWAR: A 21-year-old YouTuber from Puri is being investigated on suspicion of collaborating with Haryana travel blogger Jyoti Malhotra, who was arrested Saturday for allegedly spying for Pakistan. The unnamed woman came under the scanner after it emerged that she had travelled to Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing leading to…
