THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala education minister V Sivankutty flagged on Sunday reports of some private schools in the state blocking Christmas celebrations on campus, warning that the LDF govt won’t tolerate “divisive models based on religion and belief, as seen in north India”.“Such actions are unheard of in a state like Kerala, known for its…secular culture…Our schools…
PUNE/NAGPUR: BJP-led Mahayuti delivered a sweeping verdict after two rounds of the first phase of Maharashtra’s civic elections, winning presidents’ posts in nearly 207 of 288 municipal councils and nagar panchayats, mirroring its assembly election performance just over a year ago. Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was reduced to 44 posts. Results were declared on Sunday…
NEW DELHI: India hit out at Bangladesh and suspended visa operations at its mission in Chittagong on Sunday, amid a wave of protests there with an anti-India hue sparked by the death of radical activist Sharif Osman Hadi, which has seen the lynching of a Hindu man.Describing as “horrend-ous” the killing of 25-year-old Dipu Chandra…
BULANDSHAHR: Ahead of sentencing in the brutal gang rape of a woman and her daughter at gunpoint on NH-91 in UP in 2016 which shocked the nation, one of the survivors – then a 14-year-old schoolgirl and now a 23-year-old woman studying law with hopes of becoming a judge – told TOI from an undisclosed…
BHOPAL: A three-year-old tigress was airlifted from Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh to Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan on an IAF helicopter on Sunday, marking a key step in a renewed inter-state tiger translocation programme.According to forest officials, the operation followed nearly a month of intensive groundwork in Pench. Around 50 AI-enabled camera…
PATNA: Union minister and HAM (Secular) founder Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday threatened to quit the Union Cabinet and the NDA if a Rajya Sabha seat was not allotted to his party, reports Manoj Chaurasia. Manjhi, minister for MSMEs in the Modi govt at the Centre, was addressing a party function in Gaya. “We should be…
A man accused of cheating Rs 1.1 crore escaped from the custody of a Haryana cyber police escort team after allegedly locking the police officers inside a room at a roadside dhaba in UP’s Hardoi district after Friday midnight, prompting local police to launch a search operation and nab the accused about five hours later….
NEW DELHI/KULLU: A sharp cold wave tightened its grip across north India on Sunday, with snowfall in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, and northeastern Himachal Pradesh, while scattered rain and dense fog pushed down temperatures across the plains of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.IMD has forecast continued snowfall, rain and fog…
CHANDIGARH: In an order having wide-reaching implications for road safety and military accountability, Punjab and Haryana high court has held that the Union of India cannot claim “sovereign immunity” in cases of negligent driving by Army personnel on public roads.“Sovereign immunity is not absolute, it operates only within a very narrow sphere of functions that…
A Moradabad land acquisition court ordered the attachment of Bijnor district magistrate’s official residence and summoned the officer to appear in person on Jan 9, 2026, after compensation awarded to a landowner in 2020 was not paid despite a court decree.DM Jasjit Kaur said judge Zaigham Uddin of Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Authority passed…