NEW DELHI: K Kavitha on Saturday paid floral tributes to those who died during the 1969 Telangana statehood agitation at Amaraveerula Stupam in Gun Park, Hyderabad, ahead of the launch of her new political party.Nearly seven months after leaving the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, is set…
An 18-year-old has been extradited from Dubai to the UK and charged with the murder of 27-year-old Kamonnan Thiamphanit, also known as Angela, in a case that shocked Westminster in 2024.Enzo Bettamio was brought back on Friday and formally charged upon arrival, police said. He is set to appear before Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Victim found…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi on Saturday trained guns at Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh after senior BJP leader Ram Madhav made a controversial remark on India’s oil import.In a social media post on X, Rahul termed RSS as “Rashtriya Surrender Sangh” and said that Ram Madhav revealed “Sangh’s true nature.”“Rashtriya Surrender Sangh. Farzi nationalism in Nagpur. Pure…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday launched a sharp attack on Arvind Kejriwal, a day after Raghav Chadha and six other MPs from Rajya Sabha left the Aam Aadmi Party. BJP labelled Kejriwal as the “Rahman Dakait of Delhi” and released fresh images of what it called “Sheeshmahal 2.”Delhi minister Parvesh Verma in…
NEW DELHI: The exit of Raghav Chadha and six other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MPs drew a sharp reaction from social activist Anna Hazare on Friday, who said the leaders may not have left if the party had stayed on the “right” path.“Everyone has the right to hold an opinion in a democracy….
PM Modi during his boat ride KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a short break from his hectic Bengal poll campaign schedule on Friday to enjoy an early morning boat ride on the Ganga, which, he said, “flows right through the soul of Bengal”.Modi, who had spent the night at Raj Bhavan, reached Man O…
Mamata jabs Modi, says PM can boat on Hooghly, not Yamuna KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Friday dismissed PM Narendra Modi’s earlymorning boat ride on the Ganga as a photo-op for political gains and dared him to go into the “polluted” Yamuna in Delhi.“Our Ganga is clean. That is why the PM could enjoy…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on late Friday said efforts were underway to achieve a “historic peace” between Israel and Lebanon following a three-week ceasefire extension, while accusing Hezbollah of attempting to derail the process.In his first remarks since the truce extension, Netanyahu said he had held an “excellent conversation” with US President Donald Trump,…
NEW DELHI: When AAP announced its Rajya Sabha nominees from Punjab in 2022, the spotlight was not on Lovely Professional University founder Ashok Mittal or cricketer Harbhajan Singh, but on the relatively unknown Sandeep Pathak. Having stayed away from public visibility since joining the party in 2016, Pathak’s low profile contrasted sharply with his growing…
NEW DELHI: A tiger cub was found dead in Kanha Tiger Reserve, while the carcass of an adult tiger was recovered from Balaghat district, pushing the number of tiger deaths in Madhya Pradesh to 23 since January this year, officials told PTI.According to officials, the cub, aged between one and one-and-a-half years, was discovered on…