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BHOPAL: Congress candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination for the June 18 Rajya Sabha polls in MP was rejected Tuesday after scrutiny, turning election arithmetic on its head as BJP closed in on winning all three seats unopposed. Returning officer A P Singh rejected the nomination after BJP objected that Natarajan failed to disclose details of a…
NEW DELHI: An overhaul of BJP’s organisational teams, including in its apex body, the parliamentary board, is on the cards, with party sources saying a new team of office-bearers can be announced after June 15.As organisational teams are customarily rejigged after a new president is elected, the expected changes are being talked about since Nitin…
NEW DELHI: Congress has ticked off Telangana CM Revanth Reddy for his “Hitler inspiration” remark, calling it out of line with the party ethos and ideology. It has also asked the CM to be careful with his comments in future.When asked about the Telangana CM’s remark, AICC general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal told TOI :…
NEW DELHI: Things are heating up in Delhi with TMC on Tuesday fielding Kalyan Banerjee and Kirti Azad to take on dissident MPs and questioning the claim made by rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar of having the support of 20 MPs and having written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking recognition as a separate…
CJI Surya Kant (Source: ANI) NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant has taken up the death threats being issued to retired Bombay HC judge Justice Gautam Patel with the Indian high commission in London, and has been assured that adequate security arrangements have been put in place for him and his family.The CJI, who is on…
India has effectively frozen approvals for Elon Musk’s Starlink to begin commercial operations, due to concerns over the use of its satellite terminals in the Iran war, according to people familiar with the matter.Security agencies have withheld the final clearances Starlink needs to launch, they said. Reports that Starlink terminals were in use during the…
NEW DELHI: Two youngsters fell in love, but the Class 12 girl filed a complaint against the youth when he refused to marry her, resulting in him being sentenced to 10 years for having physical relations with a minor. The girl married another man, who left her after three days when he came to know…
JAMMU: Army personnel detained a 14-year-old boy from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) who had allegedly crossed over the Line of Control (LoC) and entered Indian territory in J&K’s Poonch district on Tuesday evening.“Around 7pm, Javed Ali from Tetrinote in PoK, was detained near the LoC in Gulpur sector, Poonch,” an official said. Preliminary investigations indicated that…
Damaged car after it was hit by a BSF truck in Ramban JAMMU: At least four people, including two Border Security Force men, sustained minor injuries Tuesday when a bus ferrying BSF personnel for deployment on Amarnath Yatra duty collided with two other vehicles on Jammu-Srinagar NH-44 in J&K’s Ramban district.Officials said the bus first…
JAMMU: Army troops opened fire at a suspected Pakistani drone hovering over Indian territory along the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K’s Poonch district late Monday. The unmanned aerial vehicle returned towards Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after some time, officials said.“Around 10pm, alert personnel spotted the drone above some forward Indian posts along the LoC in the…
