PUNE: The fate of 57 local bodies in Maharashtra – 39 won by Mahayuti, 17 by MVA, and one by others – awaits SC’s verdict on Jan 21 as these are among the 288 municipal councils and nagar panchayats where the combined quota for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and backward classes exceeds 50%.Acting on several…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday dismissed Sonia Gandhi’s criticism of MGNREGA’s rollback as a flight of her “political fancy”, asserting that the VB-G RAM G law is not a demolition of the UPA-era Act but a repair job aimed at renewal and expansion of social protection in an India in the throes of change.BJP’s IT…
DHAKA: Amid growing tensions between Bangladesh and India, Dhaka suspended Monday consular and visa services due to “unavoidable circumstances” from its high commission in Delhi. This even as India reopened its visa centres in Khulna, Rajshahi and Sylhet, keeping “humanitarian needs in mind”, especially of those applying for medical visas, and despite the security threat…
Representative photo (ANI) GUWAHATI/SILCHAR/DIBRUGARH: Protests against attacks on minorities in Bangladesh spread across Assam on Monday as CM Himanta Biswa Sarma flashed a high alert after incendiary calls in the neighbouring country for a “Greater Bangladesh” that envisions India’s North-East as part of its territory.Protests were carried out in Barak Valley, Dima Hasao, Hailakandi, Tinsukia…
KOLKATA: A day after a group of minority community members in Bangladesh met the family of Dipu Chandra Das – a Hindu man who was lynched by a mob at Mymensingh – and posted about their plight on social media, donations from India and other countries, including US and Singapore, poured in for his impoverished…
BHOPAL/THRISSUR: Kerala govt promised on Monday a compensation of at least Rs 10 lakh to the family of Ramnarayan Baghel, a 31-year-old Dalit daily wage labourer from Chhattisgarh, who was lynched by a mob in Walayar, Palakkad district, on Wednesday after being suspected of being a “Bangladeshi” or a thief. chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan called…
NAGPUR: Exactly 114 days after he was rushed to Nagpur with renal failure triggered by suspected cough syrup toxicity and subsequently slipping into a coma, a five-year-old from Parasia in MP’s Chhindwara district made a miraculous recovery and returned home Monday afternoon.He is so far the youngest to recover. Twenty-four children aged five years and…
Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina dismissed on Monday calls for her return to the country amid ongoing legal proceedings, saying the action against her was politically driven and insisting she would not go back under the present circumstances, even as Bangladesh witnessed fresh unrest last week, including the killing of a Hindu man.“You cannot demand…
KULLU: A doctor at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC) was suspended on Monday after he brutally assaulted a patient, who protested at being called ‘tu’ and asked for some politeness. A video of the incident, shot by an attendant, shows a doctor in surgical mask repeatedly punching the patient, Arjun Panwar, 36,…
NEW DELHI: SC Monday stayed the conviction of NCP‘s Manikrao Kokate’s in a cheating case, bringing relief to him as he was facing disqualification from the Maharashtra assembly after being convicted and sentenced to a two-year jail term, reports Amit Anand Choudhary.Kokate, who was holding sports and youth welfare ministry before his resignation from cabinet…