NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday responded to the opposition’s criticism over his unscheduled stop to buy “jhalmuri” during poll campaigning in West Bengal.While addressing a rally in Krishnanagar, the Prime Minister said Bengal will celebrate the BJP’s victory with sweets and jhalmuri.“You must wave the flag of the BJP-NDA’s victory with all…
A former minister in Bihar, Jha was originally in the BJP and served as its link with Kumar before crossing over to the JD(U). (File Image) PATNA: JDU on Wednesday released a fresh list of its national office-bearers, with Sanjay Kumar Jha, a Rajya Sabha member and aide of JDU president Nitish Kumar, retaining the…
KOLKATA: EC ‘erred’ in issuing a blanket direction by treating citizens as ‘troublemakers’, Calcutta HC observed on Wednesday, granting an interim stay on an order naming 800 people ‘troublemakers’ till June 30.“The general power of superintendence and control of EC under Article 324 is subject to other law,” the HC said, reiterating a Supreme Court…
JAIPUR: Three Congress IT cell workers were among four arrested by police on Wednesday, a day after they were detained by MP police, for allegedly creating and circulating an AI-generated fake news video. It claimed former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje criticised the BJP’s handling of the Nari Shakti Vandan legislation. The purported fake video had…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a Chhattisgarh high court order that handed life imprisonment to Amit Jogi in the 2003 murder case of Ramavtar Jaggi.The case, which dates back over two decades, concerns the fatal shooting of Jaggi in June 2003. Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, was acquitted by…
KRISHNAGIRI: Three men died, and another man suffered serious injuries after the car they were travelling in collided with a private bus near Hosur in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri on Wednesday morning.The accident occurred around 4 am while the four men, staying in Bengaluru, were returning to their native place in the Dharmapuri district to cast…
NEW DELHI: For thousands of elderly and critically ill patients dependent on the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), the biggest risk is no longer just the disease—it is the delay in getting approval for treatment.A representation sent to Union health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda has flagged how life-saving procedures and drugs are getting stuck in…
NEW DELHI: Clashes, allegations of voter intimidation and technical glitches marked a turbulent start to the first phase of voting in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.West Bengal phase 1 polls — Follow live updates The tensions began overnight when crude bombs were allegedly hurled near Shivnagar Primary School, injuring at least one person and sparking panic….
NEW DELHI: Doctors serving in the armed forces may soon be allowed to practice across India without needing multiple state registrations, under draft regulations issued by the National Medical Commission (NMC).In a notification issued earlier this month, the NMC has proposed amendments to its 2023 regulations to streamline licensing norms for medical practitioners in the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down hard on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for interfering with Enforcement Directorate searches on Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), the political consultancy hired by the state government and Trinamool Congress, and said that her action had put democracy in peril.Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and N V…