New Delhi : BSP supremo Mayawati Tuesday defended in the Supreme Court the construction of life-size statues of herself in Uttar Pradesh, saying they represent the “will of the people”. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, in an affidavit filed in the apex court, said the memorials and statues […]
Washington : The head of NASA Tuesday branded India’s destruction of one of its satellites a “terrible thing” that had created 400 pieces of orbital debris and led to new dangers for astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Jim Bridenstine was addressing employees of the National Aeronautics and Space […]
Jammu : Seven Pakistani posts across the LoC were destroyed as the Indian Army retaliated to cross border shelling by Pakistani troops who targeted border areas in Rajouri and Poonch districts, officials said Tuesday. There have been several casualties to Pakistani troops too, they said. As a precautionary measure, […]
Raipur : Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan will address two poll rallies in the Naxal-hit Bastar Lok Sabha constituency of Chhattisgarh on Wednesday. The Bastar seat will alone go to polls in the state in the first phase of elections on April […]
Bhubaneswar : A train mishap was averted on Tuesday when bogies of the Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express uncoupled on Kathjodi river bridge near Cuttack. No one was hurt when the bogies separated, an official of the East Coast Railway (ECoR) said. Shortly after leaving Bhubaneswar station at around 9.30 […]
Mumbai : Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said his party and the BJP are bound by Hindutva and the two decided to enter into a pre-poll alliance after overcoming differences that soured their ties in the past. In an interview to Sena MP Sanjay Raut in party […]
Coimbatore : DMK President M K Stalin Tuesday met the parents of a 7-year old girl, who was sexually assaulted and killed in Pannimadai on the city outskrits recently, and consoled them. Stalin, as part of the election campaign for the Nilgiris constituency candidate, A Raja, visited the victim’s […]
New Delhi : The Supreme Court Tuesday quashed the RBI circular of last year that pertains to the provisions for declaring a company bankrupt even on a one-day overdue. The bench headed by Justice R F Nariman said: “We have declared the RBI circular ultra vires.” Reserve Bank of […]
New Delhi : The Congress on Tuesday released its manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections with its president Rahul Gandhi describing it as the “voice of people”. Senior party leader P Chidambaram asserted that “wealth and welfare” is the manifesto’s central theme. Rahul Gandhi was joined by other […]
The European Union’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier warned Tuesday it is “day after day more likely” that Britain will crash out of the bloc next week without an orderly withdrawal agreement. Barnier was addressing a think tank in Brussels the day after British lawmakers again failed to unite […]
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