MADURAI: As the election season gathers momentum, a few villages in south Tamil Nadu have been holding out against political messaging. Othaveedu in Madurai is one such village where political advertisements, banners, flags, posters, or messages of any kind are barred.Politicians enter the village and campaign for votes, but that’s about it. Villagers do not…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha has issued a strong rebuttal of the allegations made against him by his party colleagues and hit back with a warning, “kyonki mein ghayal hoon isliyey ghaatak hoon” (because I am injured, therefore I am dangerous), a famous dialogue used in Bollywood film film Dhurandhar.“I go to Parliament…
NEW DELHI: Highlighting the need for a robust and reliable database of persons with disabilities (PwDs) that is in keeping with the 2016 law that recognises 21 categories of disabilities, a parliamentary panel has recommended that the govt impress upon the Registrar General of India (RGI) the need to ensure in Census 2027 accurate and…
KOLKATA/MALDA: A mysterious drone appeared in front of Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s helicopter in Malda on Saturday just as she was heading to Gazole after a rally at Malatipur. Police have detained three people in this connection.Though the detainees claimed they had come to attend Banerjee’s rally and wanted to capture her boarding the helicopter,…
KOLKATA: A row erupted Saturday after a viral video allegedly showed an EC official for Panihati constituency on Kolkata’s outskirts preparing BJP campaign material, prompting TMC to demand his removal and legal action before elections.Trinamool lodged a complaint with the state’s chief electoral officer (CEO) against sector officer Atanu Chakraborty, accusing him of violating norms…
NEW DELHI: Most men in their thirties don’t see heart disease as a real threat. New research suggests that may be exactly when it begins.A large, long-term study published in Journal of American Heart Association shows that by the mid-30s, men’s risk of heart disease starts rising faster than women’s – years before any warning…
NAGPUR: A roadside “goodwill’ gesture curdled into murder. Three engineering students, who first offered to help a drunk driver, allegedly killed him hours later to grab his red Alto car and phones here. Police said Saturday the trio spotted 44-year-old spare parts supplier Suchit Bhojapure slumped over the steering wheel of his car late Thursday…
NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old girl, who was stabbed in northeast Delhi’s Seemapuri on Friday, succumbed to injuries at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital on Saturday morning. The accused, a 24-year-old man, died shortly after the incident in a gas cylinder explosion at his residence nearby on Friday evening. The girl was declared dead at the hospital…
NEW DELHI: With 18 days to polling, Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin has sharpened a familiar electoral plank, accusing the Centre of pushing Hindi through CBSE‘s NEP-aligned three-language rollout. Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan hit back, calling the charge a political cover and pitching NEP as a mother-tongue-first, flexible multilingual model. The clash has turned…
GUWAHATI: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday promised to give one free LPG cylinder each during Bihu and Durga Puja, even as long queues were reported outside cooking gas distributors across state.Sarma was addressing a poll rally in Mahmora constituency of Charaideo on Saturday. Election authorities, however, said they haven’t yet received any complaint…