LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the desertions in the BJP saying that had Yogi known how to play cricket, he would have still missed the catch. Addressing a virtual rally at Party headquarters here after inducting rebel BJP […]
SHIMLA: Cannabis may be banned in Himachal Pradesh and other parts of the country but product made from it continue to find use in various forms — be it in medicines or other goods. Now, cannabis is being used to make shoes to be worn by priests and others at the famous Kashi-Vishwanath Dham in […]
FEROZPUR/NEW DELHI: Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi was left stranded at a flyover for over 15 minutes on Wednesday while he was going to address a rally at Hussainiwala in Punjab. The grave security lapse has resulted in an all out information war with the Congress accusing the Prime Minister of insulting Punjab. Congress […]
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Monday detained several doctors who were protesting against the delay in the NEET 2021 counselling. Doctors claimed that they were brutally thrashed and manhandled while holding a peaceful march towards the Supreme Court and threatened to shut down all healthcare institutions in Delhi. The protest was organised by the […]
NEW DELHI: Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who earned the sobriquet Turbanator in 2001 after a gut-wrenching performance in one of the most keenly fought India-Australia Test series where he scalped 32 wickets, has announced retirement from all forms of cricket. He played 103 Tests, 236 ODIs and 28 T20Is for India and picked up 417, […]
NEW DELHI: Amid infighting in Uttarakhand Congress, former Chief Minister Harish Rawat and AICC in-charge for the state Devender Yadav on Friday met former party chief Rahul Gandhi at his residence. The two leaders were called for a meeting with the senior leadership after Rawat on Wednesday sent out cryptic tweets over the handling of […]
CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Eight years after the then wrestler-turned-druglord Jagdish Bhola, who was arrested in a Rs 6500-crore synthetic drug scam, had accused Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Badal’s brother-in-law Bikram Majithia of him as a kingpin leading to the summons served by ED on him, Punjab Police has booked the key Akali Dal man on […]
CHANDIGARH: In a major development on Monday, a senior Congress leader and minister for Technical Education Rana Gurjeet Singh lashed out at Punjab Congress committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu for trying to create divisions within the party and questioning the loyalty of the true and traditional Congressmen. Rana took a dig at Sidhu’s flip-flops in […]
NEW DELHI: Upping the ante against the government over the suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha MPs for the entire session of Parliament, opposition MPs took out a protest march from Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament to Vijay Chowk on Tuesday. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi described it as the crushing of the voice of the opposition […]
Uday Mahurkar’s latest book, ‘Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition’ may be one of the most challenging works in Indian writing that attempts to decode multidimensional personality of Savarakar. Presently in office as India’s Information Commissioner, we discuss the book and beyond, with this veteran journalist, columnist, and author in our Book […]