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Nishikant Dubey (left) and Manoj Tiwari NEW DELHI: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Friday slammed the Jharkhand Police after he and five others, including Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari, were booked for allegedly “forcibly” entering the sanctum sanctorum of the Baba Baidyanath temple in Deoghar, thereby “hurting religious sentiments.”Also Read: Deoghar’s Shravani mela deserves national…

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Friday came down heavily on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his allegations of large-scale voter fraud, accusing him of repeating an old political “script” and challenging him to either formally verify his claims or apologise to the nation.In a statement, the poll body claimed the leader of opposition…

NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump‘s tariff war against India has drawn rare bipartisan concern in US with American leaders across political spectrums warning against the move.Former US deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell warned that that the India-US ties were at risk as he added that “Prime Minister Modi cannot and should not bend…

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Friday came down heavily on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his allegations of large-scale voter fraud, accusing him of repeating an old political “script” and challenging him to either formally verify his claims or apologise to the nation.In a statement, the poll body claimed the leader of opposition…

From left to right: Dr Riju Nair, Dr Shiv K Nair, and Dr Mary Smitha at The Times Conversations session on cardiothoracic and vascular surgery Cardiovascular surgeons are the custodians of the most vital organ—the heart—working tirelessly to keep it beating. For the latest instalment of the Times Conversations series, three leading cardiac experts from…

PM Modi and Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu (File photo) NEW DELHI: Hyderabad MP and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday hit out at Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli premier offered to “advise”Prime Minister Narendra Modi on handling Donald Trump over the US president’s 50 per cent tariffs on India. “India is not so unfortunate that…

Following NSA Ajit Doval’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, PM Narendra Modi spoke to Putin Friday, reiterating his invitation to the president for the annual India-Russia summit and underlining India’s consistent position for peaceful resolution of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.Doval had said on Thursday that the date for Putin’s visit, which has been on the…

Kirti Vardhan Singh (AP file photo) Minister of state for external affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh on Friday said the government is in touch with China to restart border trade through three key mountain passes, Lipulekh in Uttarakhand, Shipki La in Himachal Pradesh, and Nathu La in Sikkim. The minister was responding to a question raised…

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, long a fierce critic of the Election Commission of India (ECI), on Thursday presented what he called “criminal evidence” to back his “vote chori” charge in recent polls that left the Congress in tatters.In his presentation, the Lok Sabha leader of opposition alleged serious lapses in the electoral rolls of Mahadevapura…

NEW DELHI: “Siyawar Ram Chandra Ki Jai” and not the usual “Jai Shree Ram”, that’s how Union home minister Amit Shah began his speech in poll-bound Bihar on Friday. Shah invoked Sita while laying the foundation stone for the redevelopment of Janki Mandir, revered as her birthplace, a familiar strategy for the Bharatiya Janata Party,…