- India
Digvijaya brings up Modi’s rise from grassroots, sparking CWC flutter
New Delhi: Causing a flutter ahead of the CWC meeting, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday lauded the organisational power of RSS-BJP as he shared Narendra Modi’s old picture and said…
- World
China opens world’s ‘longest’ expressway tunnel in Xinjiang
Beijing: China on Friday opened to traffic a 22.13-km-long tunnel, which it claimed to be the “world’s longest”, in Xinjiang province. The Tianshan Shengli tunnel, which traverses through the central Tianshan Mountains…
- World
WB SIR row: Banerjee seeks count of Bangladeshis, Rohingyas deleted
Kolkata: TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday said that the Election Commission must come out with the number of illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas out of the 58.20 lakh names deleted after the…
- India
Bareilly violence: Mob attacked police, raised beheading slogans, says chargesheet
Bareilly (UP): A mob attacked police teams and raised slogans of “sar tan se juda” (beheading) on the directions of cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan during the September 26 violence in Bareilly,…
- News
Given equal opportunity, women perform as well as or better than men: Rajnath Singh
Valsad: Women have proved that whenever they get equal opportunities, they perform as well as or even better than men, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. After inaugurating the Shrimad Rajchandra…
- World
BNP’s Tarique Rahman enlists as Bangladeshi voter after 17-year exile
Dhaka/New Delhi: BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday completed the formalities to enlist himself on Bangladesh’s voter list and obtain a national identity (NID) card, two days after his return from…
- World
20 hurt as mob attack halts music concert in Bangladesh
Dhaka: At least 20 students were injured in a mob attack in Bangladesh that forced the cancellation of a concert by popular rock singer James, who has also sung several hit Hindi…
- Kolkata
SIR hearings to begin on Saturday in Bengal; 32 L unmapped voters to be covered
Kolkata: The hearings under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in West Bengal will commence on Saturday, with 3,234 centres set up across the state, a senior official said.…
- Bangalore
Bengaluru: ‘Drunk’ driver arrested for dragging bike 500m, hitting vehicles
Bengaluru: Police have arrested a 38-year-old man on charges of drunk and rash driving after his SUV rammed into a bike, dragged it for about 500 metres, before hitting multiple vehicles, officials…
- India
MEA vows to bring back Lalit Modi, Mallya after ‘biggest fugitives’ jibe
New Delhi: India on Friday said it is committed to bring back from abroad the economic fugitives including Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya to face the law in the country. The assertion…
- Bangalore
Customs issues high alert as fraudsters pose as officials at Bengaluru airport
Bengaluru: The Customs department at the Kempegowda International Airport on Friday issued a high alert for the public after detecting a fraud racket in which impostors posing as Customs officials are cheating…
- Middle East
Palestinian attacker kills 2 in Israel with car; IDF raids his hometown
Jerusalem: A Palestinian attacker rammed his car into a man and then stabbed a young woman in northern Israel on Friday afternoon, killing both, police said. The Israeli military swiftly launched an…
- Mumbai
Mumbai: Teesta Setalvad joins protest against attacks on Christians
Mumbai: Several hundred people held a protest on Friday evening in Goregaon in Mumbai against Christmas-related attacks by right-wing outfits across India. The protest was organised by Samvidhan Jaagar Yatra Samiti (SJYS)…
- India
Group forcibly removes Christmas decorations in Indore
Indore: Right-wing activists created a ruckus and forcibly removed a Christmas tree and other Xmas decorations from a food street in Indore, police said on Friday. A video of the incident that…
- India
Planning a 360-degree assault on organised crime: Amit Shah
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday launched two databases – the Organised Crime Network Database and the Weapons Database for lost, looted & recovered arms – hosted by the…
