NEW DELHI: CPI(Maoist) central committee member Modem Balakrishna, killed in a counter-Naxal operation in Gariaband district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday, was arrested thrice – at Bhadrachalam in 1984, in Mahabubnagar in 1987 and in Kurnool district in 1993.Balakrishna is the sixth central committee member to be neutralised this year. The others eliminated are Chalapathi (in…
NEW DELHI: An early Friday landslide struck Upper Rimbi in West Sikkim’s Yangthang constituency, leaving at least four people dead and three others missing.According to SP Geyzing Tshering Sherpa, three people were killed on the spot, while two injured women were rescued by police, SSB personnel and local villagers. Rescuers built a makeshift tree log…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will address the international conference on India’s manuscript heritage on Friday and also launch the ‘Gyan Bharatam’ portal, a dedicated digital platform to accelerate manuscript digitisation, preservation and public access.The PMO highlighted the three-day conference, which began on Thursday under the theme ‘Reclaiming India’s Knowledge Legacy through Manuscript Heritage’, will…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court’s three-member collegium Thursday recommended appointment of chief justices to the high courts of Manipur, Meghalaya and Patna.The collegium of CJI B R Gavai and Justices Surya Kant and Vikram Nath recommended to the Union govt to appoint Karnataka HC Justice P B Bajanthri as CJ of Patna HC (at present…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has always stuck to the cardinal constitutional principle of separation of powers, a five-judge bench led by CJI B R Gavai said Thursday, following the Centre’s emphasis on the executive, legislature and judiciary sticking to their domains. “Judicial activism” should not become “judicial terrorism”, the CJI said.The bench of CJI Gavai…
NEW DELHI: India announced a special economic package for Mauritius, which included a strong strategic component in the form of in-principle agreements for redevelopment of the port in capital Port Louis and development and surveillance of the Chagos Marine Protected Area, a vast expanse of Indian Ocean that’s home to the US-UK Diego Garcia military…
LUCKNOW: Amid the ongoing unrest in Nepal, a batch of pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh faced tense moments when miscreants attacked their bus near Kathmandu Thursday morning, looted their belongings and left several of them injured.According to police, the pilgrims were returning from a visit to Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu when their bus, bearing a UP…
JAMMU/SRINAGAR: J&K continues to be on the edge over the detention of AAP legislator from Doda, Mehraj Malik, under the Public Safety Act (PSA). While a low-intensity blast on Thursday morning triggered panic in Jammu’s Doda town, which already remains tense, high drama unfolded in Srinagar when police locked the circuit house gates to prevent…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday held talks with Polish Deputy Prime Minister and counterpart Radosław Sikorski on recent security concerns in Poland.Jaishankar reiterated that India supports an early end to hostilities and a durable solution to the Ukraine conflict.Sharing a post on X, Jaishankar said, “Spoke to Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski…
Launching the ‘fast track immigration – trusted traveller program’ (FTI-TTP) — which enables faster immigration of pre-verified flyers through automated e-gates — at five more international airports in the country, home minister Amit Shah on Thursday suggested that its coverage be maximised by enabling resident Indians and overseas citizens of India (OCI) to sign up…