NEW DELHI: In a major relief to Mamata Banerjee government, the Supreme Court on Monday lifted the Calcutta HC stay on implementation of the new list of OBC sub-groups, including 80 belonging to the Muslim community, and said it is well settled that the Executive can notify such a list without passing a legislation.On June…
KOLKATA: BJP Bengal unit chief Samik Bhattacharya on Monday praised Bengali-speaking migrant workers in other states for “helping local police identify and apprehend undocumented Rohingyas and Bangladeshis. “Whether it is Haryana, New Delhi or Maharashtra, police are getting information about Rohingya from Bengali migrant workers. Their livelihood in those states is at stake due to…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday strongly defended India’s global outreach after the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack and the subsequent developments related to Operation Sindoor, saying in Lok Sabha that the international community had overwhelmingly backed India. Even as President Donald Trump again claimed he ended the India-Pakistan conflict, Jaishankar asserted…
NEW DELHI: A major political row erupted over Congress leader P Chidambaram‘s remarks that those behind the Pahalgam massacre could be “homegrown terrorists”and that it was wrong to assume that they were from Pakistan.Senior BJP leaders hit out at the former home minister over his statements in a video interview, which was endorsed by a…
In a major relief for Nimisha Priya, the Indian nurse on death row in Yemen, her death sentence has been officially cancelled, according to a statement from the office of Indian Grand Mufti Kanthapuram AP Abubakker Musliyar.In an official statement, Indian Grand Mufti, Kanthapuram AP Abubakker Muslaiyar’s office said, “The death sentence of Nimisha Priya,…
JAMMU: The daughter of anadministrative officer martyred in unprovoked Pakistan shelling in Rajouri will be appointed the assistant law officer when she completes her studies, said J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in Jammu on Monday.Mareesa Thapa, the daughter of additional district development commissioner (ADDC) Raj Kumar Thapa, is currently pursuing law. The LG handed over…
TOI explains: How Nisar was built & why it’ll take 90 days before any data comes in NEW DELHI: The India-US Earth observation satellite, Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar), is set for launch on July 30 from Isro’s spaceport in Sriharikota aboard the GSLV-F16 rocket. But the mission’s real work begins after it enters orbit….
NEW DELHI: A marathon debate on Operation Sindoor in Parliament turned into a political battlefield on Monday, as the government lauded India’s cross-border military action following the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, while the Opposition grilled the Centre over transparency, strategic choices, and Donald Trump’s claims of mediating a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.The session…
NEW DELHI: Jim Corbett, whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated, was a hero and a redeemer for the hill-folk of Kumaon and Garhwal in the 1920s and 1930s colonial India. But the hunter-turned-conservationist got written about nationally and became a global literary star only after his debut book, ‘Man-Eaters of Kumaon’ came out in…
Chirag Paswan; Nitish Kumar NEW DELHI: Union minister Chirag Paswan, who has been criticizing NDA ally and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar over state’s rising crime graph, on Monday said that as a partner in the ruling alliance, it is his responsibility to discuss the government’s shortcomings so that things can be improved.“As an ally,…