NEW DELHI: Sankarshan Thakur, editor of The Telegraph, who brought a lyrical flair to hard-boiled ground reporting, and whose deep and nuanced understanding of national politics, especially of the state of Bihar, made him one of the distinguished journalists of his generation, passed away on Monday after battling cancer. He was 63.Sankarshan’s eye for the…
BHOPAL: An FIR has been filed against 10 people in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur for allegedly causing a Rs 1.86 crore loss to the exchequer by making bogus entries of moong and urad in the e-procurement portal.Police have booked cooperative officials, computer operators, bank staff, surveyors, and a warehouse manager for inflating entries to siphon off…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday exhorted NDA MPs to make Swadeshi a mass movement & suggested that they organise “Swadeshi Mela” to promote indigenous products, stressing that self-reliance is the way to power India’s rise when its increasing strength is bound to face some challenges.Addressing the MPs a day before the vice-presidential election,…
NEW DELHI: In a show of unity ahead of the voting for the vice-presidential election, MPs from opposition parties held a mock exercise to avoid mistakes in marking preferences in Tuesday’s direct contest between the joint opposition’s B Sudershan Reddy and the governing BJP’s nominee and presumptive winner CP Radhakrishnan.The electoral college for the VP…
NEW DELHI: Dismissing Congress‘ allegations, telecom regulator Trai on Monday said it plays no role in acceptance or rejection of applications for individual SMS campaigns and it is for telecom service providers (TSPs) to decide on such matters.The rebuttal came after Congress claimed on Sunday that Trai had rejected its application to send text messages…
NEW DELHI: BJP and its allies on Monday lashed out at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over a viral video purportedly showing his interaction with a distressed farmer in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi, calling his conduct “arrogant” and unbecoming of a senior neta. BJP also criticised Rahul Gandhi over his reported trip abroad, describing him as “a casual…
NEW DELHI: In a shocking case, a man whose life sentence was commuted to seven years’ imprisonment by Madhya Pradesh high court ended up spending 11 years, 6 months and 24 days in jail as he and the jail authority were not informed about the high court order. Coming to his relief, the Supreme Court…
NEW DELHI: A wildlife survey in Arunachal Pradesh has provided the first photographic evidence of the elusive Pallas’s cat in the state, reaffirming the eastern Himalayas’ status as a global biodiversity hotspot.The WWF-India survey, conducted with state forest department, also recorded snow leopard, common leopard, clouded leopard and marbled cat above 4,200 metres, underlining the…
NEW DELHI: Given the common practice of unfiltered accusations made in the political arena, Supreme Court on Monday had a word of advice for netas and parties: “If you are a politician, you must have a thick skin”.A three-judge bench headed by the CJI – he comes from a political family; his father, R S…
NEW DELHI: Accepting a major demand of the opposition, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Election Commission to accept Aadhaar cards, in addition to the 11 documents specified under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), as a proof of identity of a person to enable him to file application for inclusion in the Bihar electoral…