Author: TNI Team

LUCKNOW: Eight candidates including deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya filed their nomination papers for the ensuing legislative council elections here on Thursday. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath, deputy CM Brijesh Pathak, and state BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh accompanied the candidates during the process. Apart from Maurya who lost the Assembly elections to Samajwadi Party’s […]

There are three questions about the Nupur-Naveen incident that are making rounds: 1. Were the Middle East and OIC response a result of a nudge by the USA? 2. Could New Delhi have responded in a better fashion? 3. Is there a bigger picture there somewhere? Let us try to address them one by one. […]

  Marathi actress Ketaki Chitale was arrested on May 14, 2022, by Thane Police, Maharashtra for a post shared on Facebook. The post was a poem in the style of an “Abhang”(traditional Maharashtrian hymn) about a corrupt 80-year-old man, “Pawara”, with missing teeth and saliva dribbling all the time, jealous of Brahmins and destined to […]

KOCHI (KERALA): India aims to double the exports of marine products to Rs 1 lakh crore, Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday as he called upon fishermen, traders and exporters to help the country transform into a seafood processing hub. “This target will be achieved through sustainable fishing, ensuring quality and variety, promotion […]

DUSHANBE (TAJIKISTAN): On an official visit to Tajikistan, Union Jalshakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Monday met Indian students at Avicenna Tajik State Medical University in the capital Dushanbe. During his interaction, Shekhawat gave details of Amrit Mahotsav of Independence to the medical students and said that the future of India depends on their performance. […]

NEW DELHI: With an aim to provide additional avenues for grievance redressal, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) on Monday released a new draft notification. Putting the onus on SSMIs (significant social media intermediaries), the draft also sets new accountability standards for big tech platforms. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar […]

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Monday registered a case on the complaint of suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma over the alleged death threats to her and launched a probe. The Delhi Police has also sent notices to Twitter, officials said. A Delhi Police spokesperson said that a complaint was received from […]

BENGALURU: Former Indian captain Kapil Dev on Monday took a swipe at senior Indian batsmen such as Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul for their approach in the T20I format. India failed to qualify for the semi-finals in the last World T20, played in 2021, and crashed out in the group stage. The failure […]

NEW DELHI: Several teams of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday carried out searches at over nine locations on the premises linked to the arrested Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain and others in connection with a money laundering case. An ED official related to the probe told The New Indian, […]

With the recent spike in terrorist activities in Kashmir, it looks like the ‘good times’ ushered by the abrogation of Article 370 are over. It was an optimistic three-year phase that speculated about all that was bright in the future of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh: people empowerment, equity and fairness, comprehensive development, a three-tier system […]