RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat shows his ink marked finger after casting vote at a polling station during the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) elections (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said “choosing the Nota option indirectly helps promote an unwanted candidate” as he cast his vote in the Nagpur…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi fed fodder to his cows at Lok Kalyan Marg (LKM) residence on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, which marks the harvest festival of Hindus. In the 39-second clip, PM Modi was seen standing outdoors on a lawn, offering feed to the cows, which were adorned with decorative cloths, keeping…
Flightradar24 at 9 am IST NEW DELHI: Flights between India and the west will get longer as airlines have stopped overflying the Iranian and Iraqi airspace due to the evolving situation in the region. The sudden closure of Iranian airspace for some time on Wednesday-Thursday night meant Air India had to cancel Thursday morning’s Delhi-New…
PM Modi at Pongal celebrations at minister L Murugan’s Delhi residence A few days ago, I was in the sacred land of Somnath to be part of the Somnath Swabhiman Parv, marking a thousand years since the first attack on Somnath, which took place in 1026. People from all across India had come to be…
Rahul Gandhi (File photo) CHENNAI: Rahul Gandhi has endorsed the demand for power sharing in Tamil Nadu, two Congress functionaries told TOI. They said Rahul, who was in Gudalur on Tuesday, raised the matter in a casual conversation with TNCC president K Selvaperunthagai in the presence of Nilgiris MP A Raja of DMK, who reportedly…
NEW DELHI: Maulana Arshad Madani, who leads one of the two factions of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, on Wednesday alleged that the “flexible policy” adopted by Congress during its tenure towards “politics of hatred based on religion caused severe damage to both the country and Constitution”.He also claimed if Congress had taken “the same strict stand against…
Jairam Ramesh (File photo) Jairam Ramesh (File photo) Jairam Ramesh (File photo) NEW DELHI: After China announced a record trade surplus, Congress in a swipe at BJP Wednesday alleged a “carefully calibrated capitulation” to Beijing and cited netas of BJP and RSS “hobnobbing” with a high-level Chinese Communist Party delegation.Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Wednesday convicted Asiya Andrabi, the founder of Kashmiri women separatist organisation Dukhtaraan-e-Millat, and two of her associates – Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen – for conspiring to “wage war against the country”.Additional sessions judge Chander Jit Singh of NIA court held the trio guilty under UAPA and IPC. The court…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the petition filed by ED against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for allegedly obstructing ED’s raid on I-PAC’s Pratik Jain, and for tampering and stealing evidence and intimidating its officials.A bench comprising Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Vipul M Pancholi will hear the writ petition filed…
NEW DELHI: The sacrifices of Indian soldiers during Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka nearly 40 years ago should be recognised and honoured, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday regretting that the then govts did not “respect” their contributions.“The decision taken by the then govt to send Indian troops to Sri Lanka is open to…