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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Monday alleged the ruling AAP in Punjab “abused power and manipulated the poll process” to win the recent zila parishad and panchayat samiti election, and claimed that even then it failed to put up an impressive show.He said while the AAP claims to have won 220…
RAIPUR: Chaitanya, son of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, received Rs 200 crore to Rs 250 crore as his share from an alleged liquor scam in the state, the Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offence Wing (ACB/EOW) has claimed in its chargesheet.The state police’s ACB/EOW, in its seventh supplementary chargesheet in the multi-crore liquor scam filed before…
J-K Students Association writes to PM Modi, seeking safety of Indian medical students amid protests in Bangladesh Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 23 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association (JKSA) on Monday wrote to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking urgent intervention to ensure the safety and well-being of Indian medical students currently…
CHENNAI: A tiny needle system that sends cancer drugs directly into breast cancer cells, while protecting healthy ones, has been developed by researchers from IIT Madras and two Australian universities – Monash University and Deakin University. The nanotechnology injection delivery system packs the anticancer drug, doxorubicin, into special protective bubbles, then pushes it inside cells…
Representative photo (ANI) LUCKNOW: Visibility loss caused by dense fog triggered three fatal accidents in UP, killing three people in Sultanpur district, two in Kanpur district and four in Bijnor.In Sultanpur, a speeding MUV ferrying 11 people from Lucknow to Azamgarh rammed into a cattle-loaded truck broke down on Purvanchal Expressway Monday. While Sikander Khan…
NEW DELHI: In his first visit to the national capital after taking oath last month for the 10th time, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar met PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday.Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary, who is from BJP, accompanied Nitish along with Union minister Lalan Singh, of JDU, and later described…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled that the authority vested in a criminal court to impose the condition of ‘deposit of passport’ ought not to be exercised in a “rote or automatic manner”, and such bail conditions must not unduly curtail personal liberty.HC was of the view that the condition for depositing one’s…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday dismissed Sonia Gandhi’s criticism of MGNREGA’s rollback as a flight of her “political fancy”, asserting that the VB-G RAM G law is not a demolition of the UPA-era Act but a repair job aimed at renewal and expansion of social protection in an India in the throes of change.BJP’s IT…
DHAKA: Amid growing tensions between Bangladesh and India, Dhaka suspended Monday consular and visa services due to “unavoidable circumstances” from its high commission in Delhi. This even as India reopened its visa centres in Khulna, Rajshahi and Sylhet, keeping “humanitarian needs in mind”, especially of those applying for medical visas, and despite the security threat…
Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina dismissed on Monday calls for her return to the country amid ongoing legal proceedings, saying the action against her was politically driven and insisting she would not go back under the present circumstances, even as Bangladesh witnessed fresh unrest last week, including the killing of a Hindu man.“You cannot demand…
