NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy’s stitched sailing vessel INSV Kaundinya will embark on her maiden overseas voyage on Monday, sailing from Porbandar in Gujarat to Muscat in Oman. The journey will symbolically retrace ancient maritime routes that once connected India with West Asia and the wider Indian Ocean world, testing traditional shipbuilding techniques that predate…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader TS Singh Deo on Sunday defended Digvijaya Singh‘s remarks on the RSS‘s organisational strength, stating that Singh intended to highlight areas for improvement within the Congress party, not to imitate the RSS.Speaking with ANI, Deo emphasised that organisational strengthening is a continuous process and that the Congress should focus on its…
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing controversy over Digvijaya Singh‘s remarks praising the RSS’s organisational strength, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Revanth Reddy hailed Sonia Gandhi‘s role in Congress leadership, citing examples of elevation of Manmohan Singh and P V Narasimha Rao to the post of Prime Minister.In a social media post on X, Reddy, on the…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of civil aviation on Monday issued a travel advisory after multiple flights were delayed due to a thick layer of smog and fog in northern parts of India.The ministry shared customer support numbers of various airlines and said, “Due to fog conditions across parts of Northern India, flight operations at select…
BANKURA: A 53-year-old booth-level officer in West Bengal’s Bankura district, who was also the headmaster of a primary school, was found dead Sunday in a school room. A note recovered from the spot read, “I cannot take this pressure anymore, farewell”.Haradhan Mondal, known locally as Haru master, was a BLO in booth number 206 in…
BHOPAL: A seven-year-old son of a tenant died from a gunshot wound to the head after the 14-year-old son of the landlord allegedly accidentally opened fire with his father’s licensed rifle at his house in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district on Saturday night.The victim’s family has alleged murder, claiming in their police complaint that another rifle…
VADODRA: Writings by PM Narendra Modi and Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar have been introduced at Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) in a new BA (English) minor course launched under National Education Policy-2020, reports Prashant Rupera.Department of English at MSU’s faculty of arts has added ‘Jyotipunj’ by Modi and ‘Inside the Enemy Camp’ by Savarkar to…
CP Radhakrishnan (ANI image) NEW DELHI: Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan will be on a two-day visit to Puducherry, Kerala and Tamil Nadu on December 29 and 30.On December 29, the Vice-President will attend a civic reception, unveil the statue of Mahakavi Bharathiar, and launch a housing project under the Smart City Mission in Puducherry, according to…
Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir’s son held on PSO assault complaint BEHRAMPORE: Police on Sunday surrounded Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir‘s Shantipur residence in Murshidabad’s Manikyahar and took his son Golam Nabi Azad alias Rabin in for questioning after constable Jumma Khan, one of Kabir’s three personal security officers, alleged that Rabin had assaulted him when he…
File photo: BJP Rajya Sabha member Ananta Roy (Maharaj) JALPAIGURI: BJP Rajya Sabha member Ananta Roy (Maharaj) has left his party squirming with his remarks on Saturday that detention camps were ordered by Union home minister Amit Shah.Addressing a meeting at Adabari in Cooch Behar’s Dinhata on Saturday, Roy said, “The Union home minister has…