Author: Rohan Dua

KOLKATA: The medical report prepared by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhubaneswar has taken a direct swipe at the tainted Mamata government minister Partha Chatterjee, saying the medical examination done on him did not yield any indication or signs of fresh ailment in him, thereby ruling out any stay or treatment […]

NEW DELHI: Two shooters suspected to be involved in the daylight killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala were killed in an encounter by Punjab Police in Amritsar district on Wednesday. The two shooters – Manpreet Singh alias Mannu Kussa and Jagreet Singh alias Rupa – were holed up in an abandoned building in Chicha Bamka […]

  NEW DELHI: Family members of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on Tuesday requested the government to form a committee to investigate his death following sensational revelations that American intelligence agency Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had killed him. Their remarks came after the confessions of Robert Crowley, the second-in-command of the CIA’s Directorate of […]

NEW DELHI: Two days after the arrest of three Popular Front of India (PFI) men, who were allegedly part of a “potential terror module” that sought to target those “who make adverse and objectionable” comments against Islam, the Patna Police on Friday made some more sensational disclosures in the case with the arrest of a […]

NEW DELHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) will break ranks with the opposition as they pledged their support to NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu in the Presidential elections. Announcing the decision, JMM president Shibu Soren said, “For the first time since independence there is a chance that a tribal woman has a chance to become the President […]

NEW DELHI: Even as a war of words has broken out between the BJP and Congress on what all will be banned in the lexicon of the Parliament during its proceedings by the MPs, a 50-page document by a seven-member research team of India’s Lok Sabha secretariat has disclosed that several cuss words in thise […]

NEW DELHI: In a show of togetherness – also a throwback to their earlier camaraderie when they ran a coalition in Maharashtra – newly appointed Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday told The New Indian that they are ideologically on the same page, a template that will be used […]

NEW DELHI :Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and India’s external affairs minister (MEA) Dr S.Jaishankar on Friday  had a brief meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Bali. They discussed priority issues of the bilateral agenda, as well as topical international and regional problems, including in light of the situation in […]

  MUMBAI: Maharashtra’s single-largest party BJP, that had won 106 seats in the 2019 Vidhan Sabha polls, on Thursday pulled off a Houdini act after it handpicked rebel Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde as the next CM of the new combine as they trucked a deal to trump the powerful Thackerays, further stretching their two-and-half-year-old […]

  MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari sought to call the assembly session for a floor test on June 30 in a dramatic twist, ending speculations on whether Maha Vikas Agadi (MVA) was still in power amid rising internal revolt in Shiv Sena after SC gave rebel legislators a breather till July 12. Koshiyari […]