PATNA: Minta Devi, the “124 Not Out” poster girl of INDIA bloc’s “vote chori” protest in Delhi, surfaced Tuesday to declare she was 35 and blame the additional 89 years on a clerical typing error that led to her year of birth being recorded as 1900 instead of 1990.The voter from Daraundha in Bihar‘s Siwan…
KOLKATA: EC on Tuesday summoned Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant to New Delhi by 5pm Wednesday to explain in person why no action was taken against four state officials and a contractual data entry operator accused of failing to prevent bogus voter entries in two assembly segments.EC had ordered suspension of all five, FIRs naming…
NEW DELHI: Five MPs, including Congress’s general secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal, on Tuesday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over the diversion of the Thiruvananthapuram-Delhi flight they were on to Chennai and demanded action on alleged “bre-ach of privilege” by Air India. Venugopal and his party colleagues K Suresh, Adoor Prakash and Robert…
DEHRADUN: Two members of an SC-appointed committee have warned the Char Dham all-weather road widening project in the Bhagirathi eco-sensitive zone, if built as currently planned, will cause disaster in the fragile Himalayan terrain. Their caution, sent in a letter on Tuesday to Union ministry of road transport and highways, came days after the Aug…
DEHRADUN: Teams from National Disaster Response Force, armed forces and state agencies worked to manually drain a temporary lake near the Army camp in Harsil, Uttarkashi district, on Tuesday to prevent possible flooding in downstream villages. The lake had formed last week after a cloudburst-triggered landslide blocked the Bhagirathi river near Dharali, creating a natural…
NEW DELHI: Amid the chair naming deputy leader of opposition Gaurav Gogoi for “instigating” opposition MPs to protest, Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2025, and the Indian Ports Bill, 2025, following brief speeches by the ruling camp amid din of protests against the special intensive revision…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday told Congress that the “2024 mandate” was stolen from it, as the party finalised a three-stage campaign over two months to intensify its protest against “vote chori”, starting with a nationwide torchlight march on the eve of Independence Day.At a meeting of Congress office bearers chaired by party chief…
BENGALURU: Karnataka legislative council member SL Bhojegowda of JDS said Tuesday he had “2,500 dogs killed” during his tenure as Chikkamagaluru municipal body chief, reports Niranjan Kaggere.“During my tenure as the chairperson of the City Municipality Council, we killed 2,500 dogs and buried them under trees to serve as natural compost,” Bhojegowda said during a…
PRAYAGRAJ: The civic body has launched a large-scale campaign to sterilise the city’s over 1.1 lakh stray canine population amid increasing dog bite cases, reports Rajeev Mani. The action follows a National Rabies Control Programme report that showed 1.9 lakh people were bitten by dogs in the city over the past two years. Of these,…
NEW DELHI: Strengthening India’s efforts in attaining self-sufficiency in the critical semiconductor segment, the Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved four semiconductor projects, entailing a total investment of Rs 4,594 crore, with one of them being backed by US chipmaker Intel as well as defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin. The projects will come up in…