Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose wrote to Raj Bhavan staff asking them to ignore any summons from the police regarding molestation charges levelled against him. Bose also claimed that the staff that no criminal proceedings can be instituted against a Governor during their term of office. Bose in the letter stated, The reports from the media indicate that the police propose to conduct an inquiry into the incident and that they would be examining the staff of the Raj Bhavan. It is also reported tha

SHIMLA: In a gaffe, actor and BJP candidate Kangana Ranaut mistakenly named her party colleague Tejasvi Surya while intending to target RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav during an election rally. The faux pas also elicited a response from the former Bihar deputy chief minister. Addressing a gathering in the Sundernagar area of Himachal Pradesh's Mandi on Friday, Ranaut -- the BJP candidate from the Mandi Lok Sabha seat -- while referring to the INDIA bloc, said the opposition alliance is full of spoiled

BENGALURU: JD(S) leader and party MLA H D Revanna was remanded to police custody till May 8 by a city court on Sunday in connection with a case of alleged kidnapping and illegal confining of a woman. Revanna, who is the son of former Prime Minister and JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda, was arrested on Saturday by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) after his bail plea was rejected in a case related to kidnapping and illegally confining a woman who is the mother of three children. The FIR was regist

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat minister Harsh Sanghavi on Sunday targeted the Congress over the arrest of a maulvi a day earlier for allegedly planning to kill a Hindu leader and threaten a BJP MLA on orders of his handlers in Pakistan and Nepal and said the opposition party must not inspire such persons. The comment from the minister of state for home in the BJP government here evoked a sharp response from the Congress, which said the ruling party was trying to hide its own incompetence in controlling crim

KOCHI: Days after a suspected victim of sexual assault tossed her newborn infant on to a street in Kochi, killing the infant, another woman was found to have given birth in the bathroom of a city hostel, the police said on Sunday. The 22-year-old woman from Kollam, who works in a company here, delivered the child inside the bathroom of a private hostel on Sunday morning, and the matter came to light after her hostel mates forcefully opened the door as she was locked inside for a long time, the p

SRINAGAR: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Sunday criticised the BJP for anti-Muslim rhetoric during elections and said targeting the 14 per cent of India's population won't strengthen the nation. Speaking at a rally in downtown Srinagar in support of his party candidate Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, Abdullah emphasised the need for harmony post-elections and the importance of fostering dialogue with Pakistan. Abdullah said there have been instances during the campaigning when seve

GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is not just an excellent orator but he can dance his way into peoples hearts too. He hummed and shook a leg every time Akou EbarModi Sarkar (Modi government again), the BJPs popular poll song, was played out at his rallies. The last four of Assams 14 parliamentary seats will go to polls in the third phase on May 7. After campaigning came to a close on Sunday, the BJP shared the details of Sarmas campaign-related engagements since the time the no

New Delhi, May 5 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita on Sunday alleged he was put in jail before the elections to stifle his voice and urged people to vote against dictatorship when the national capital goes to polls on May 25. Sunita held her third roadshow in the national capital in south Delhi in support of AAP candidate Sahiram Pahalwan on Sunday. She said her husband was put in jail since he built good government schools, mohalla clinics and promised to give Rs 1,000 to

UTTARA KANNADA: A 26-year-old woman allegedly threw her six-year-old disabled son into a crocodile-infested river at Dandeli taluk in this district following a quarrel with her husband, police said on Sunday. The couple often fought with each other over the condition of their elder son, who is speech-disabled since birth. They have another two-year-old son, they said. Savitri's husband Ravi Kumar (27) used to frequently quarrel with her over elder son's disability and questioned her as to why sh

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court set aside the bail of a police officer accused of raping a minor Dalit girl who had come to the police station to register a sexual assault complaint in Uttar Pradesh. The SC after cancelling the bail issued by the Allahabad High Court directed the accused to surrender immediately. The apex court said that there is no reason to justify the grant of bail to the accused who was the Station House Officer (SHO) and allegedly grossly abused his office to commit same heino

BHOPAL: In a jolt to the opposition Congress, the lone MLA of the party from the Sagar constituency Nirmala Sapre quit and joined the BJP on Sunday. Sapre represents the SC category in Bundelkhand and is a Congress MLA from the Bina Assembly. Sapre joined the BJP in the presence of Madhya Pradesh CM Dr Mohan Yadav's poll rally. PM Modi and CM Mohan Yadav have the agenda of development... I have joined the stream of development. The Congress does not have an agenda for the future. It has no hope

NEW DELHI: The Congress' media department national coordinator Radhika Khera resigned from the party's primary membership on Sunday, days after her altercation with another leader at the party's Chhattisgarh state unit office. In her resignation letter to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Khera also claimed that she was facing opposition in the party for her visit to the Ram temple in Ayodhya. It is an established truth since ancient times that those who support religion have been opposed. Exam

GUWAHATI: Campaigning for the third and final phase of Lok Sabha polls covering four seats in Assam concluded on Sunday. Despite heavy rains dampening the last day, both ruling and opposition parties engaged in a vigorous campaign marked by bike rallies, roadshows, public rallies, and door-to-door appeals by candidates. The constituencies in the final phase are Dhubri, Barpeta, Kokrajhar (ST), and Guwahati. Voting is scheduled to take place on May 7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Mini

KOLKATA: Campaigning for four Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal - Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur, and Murshidabad - going to polls in the third phase on May 7 came to an end at 6pm on Sunday, officials said. A total of 73,37,651 voters, including 36,12,395 women and 154 third-genders, are eligible to exercise their franchise in 7,360 polling stations. Out of the 57 candidates contesting in this phase, Jangipur has 14, Maldaha Uttar (15), Maldaha Dakshin (17) and Murshidabad (11), he said.

AHMEDABAD: Campaigning for polls to 25 of 26 Lok Sabha seats and bypolls to five assembly constituencies ended in Gujarat at 6 pm on Saturday, with voting scheduled for May 7. The BJP's Mukesh Dalal has already won from Surat unopposed after the nomination of Congress' Nilesh Kumbhani was rejected over irregularities in the signature of proposers and other candidates withdrew. Among the prominent candidates in the fray are Union Home Minister Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, as well as his cabinet co

BOLPUR: Alleging that the mistruth about Sandeshkhali was spread by the BJP using money, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday called upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop shedding crocodile tears as the conspiracy hatched by the saffron party has come to the fore with the unravelling of a recent sting. The TMC on Saturday released a video on social media, in which a man, who claimed to be a BJP mandal president in Sandeshkhali, was heard saying that Leader of the Opposition i

KOLKATA: The CPI (M) candidate for South Kolkata constituency Saira Shah Halim felt that in a state like Bengal, where joblessness is a serious issue, there is a need to go beyond dole politics. In our campaign we're emphasising that people should think beyond dole politics, she said during the Kolkata Dialogues-- part of the Express Dialogues series, an initiative of this paper-- on Sunday. This year we are campaigning in such a way so that we can emerge as a strong Opposition and in the next a

SRINAGAR: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday asked the voters in Kashmir to remain vigilant to the possibility of manipulation of the EVMs when they cast their votes for the Lok Sabha elections. It is important for all the voters to know that the EVM is a theft machine. On the polling day, you will go through the process of identification and then your finger will be inked. When you go to the EVM booth, you should check the (LED) lights on it, he said. After you cast the vot

NEW DELHI: The government on Sunday asserted that India has one of the most stringent norms for pesticides residues in food items and rejected reports suggesting that food regulator FSSAI allows high level of residues in spices and herbs. The clarification comes amid a ban imposed by the Hong Kong food regulator on certain spice mix of two leading Indian brands MDH and Everest on alleged presence of pesticide Ethylene Oxide in their samples. The Singapore food regulator too ordered a recall of o

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday said there were many discrepancies in the investigation conducted previously into Rohith Vemula's death in 2016 and asserted that its government in Telangana will leave no stone unturned to ensure justice for his family. Police in Telangana have filed a closure report before a court in its probe into the death of Rohith Vemula, a student of the University of Hyderabad, claiming he was not a Dalit and died by suicide in 2016 as he feared that his eal caste would

BENGALURU: The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Sunday sought the Election Commission to initiate action against BJP's national president J P Nadda and other senior leaders for allegedly violating the model code of conduct by posting a video on social media intimidating members of SC and ST community not to vote for a particular candidate. In a complaint to the Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer, the Congress mentioned about a video uploaded on social media platform 'X' by the offic

NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has directed all states to ensure that children in the age group of six to 14 years are enrolled in neighbourhood schools and receive formal education. In a letter to state chief secretaries, NCPCR Chief Priyank Kanoongo, said the states should also ensure that in cases where it is found that money is being raised in name of children and children are illegally transported from one place to another, authorities should take

NEW DELHI: The cost of air conditioning in school has to be borne by the parents as it is a facility being provided to the students, which is no different from the other charges such as laboratory fee, the Delhi High Court has said. A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) against a private school charging Rs 2,000 per month for the air conditioning in classes and stated that such financial burden cannot be fastened on the school management alo

KOLKATA: Days after the Calcutta High Court invalidated the fraudulent appointments of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff by the state's School Service Commission (SSC) in state-run and state-aided schools, SSC chairman Siddhartha Majumdar said the number of irregular hires was around 5,300 or 20.5%. In the affidavits the SSC filed before the high court bench, it quantified the illegal appointments as 4,327, which works out to 16.8%. When the order's challenge was heard in the Supreme Court

FEROZEPUR: A 19-year-old youth was beaten to death following an alleged sacrilege incident that took place at a gurdwara here on Saturday, police said. Bakshish Singh, a resident of Talli Gulam village, allegedly tore some pages of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs, after entering the premises of the gurdwara in Bandala village, they said. His father Lakhwinder Singh said that Bakshish was mentally disturbed and was undergoing treatment for it. Police have registered an FIR again

NEW DELHI: Former Pakistani minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain's praise of Rahul Gandhi is a matter of grave concern and the Congress must explain the 'deep love' for its leader from a country that always attempted to destabilise India, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said. In an interview to PTI on Saturday, Singh also questioned the Congress' relationship with Pakistan. There must be a reason behind this deep love (agadh prem) from a country that has been trying to destabilise India. It is a m

MUMBAI: The family of Anuj Thapan, who died while in police custody following his arrest in the case related to firing outside Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's house here, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking a CBI probe into his death. While the police claim Thapan killed himself in the lock-up, his mother Rita Devi in her petition filed in the HC on Friday alleged foul play and claimed he was killed. In the plea, which will come up for hearing in due course, Devi sought the HC to direct th

JAIPUR: Six members of a family were killed and two others injured after their car was hit by a vehicle in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district on Sunday, police said. The accident occurred on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway near the Banas river bridge. The family was on its way to offer prayers at a Ganesh temple in Sawai Madhopur, police said. Six members of a family were killed and two injured in the accident after an unidentified vehicle hit their car, Sub-Inspector at Bonli police station, Dhara

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : After days of protests by driving school owners, the Motor Vehicle Department (MVD) has made slight changes to its earlier circular directing modifications in licence test procedures. Through a new order issued on Saturday, the MVD has opted to reinforce the existing road test, albeit with certain alterations. While the H test will continue for the time being, the applicant will be allowed to take part in it test only after clearing the road test. The licence will be provide

NEW DELHI : Today, as the newly-appointed Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee interim chief Devender Yadav officially assumes the mantle for the post, we can expect interesting scenes at the Congress headquarters. After the former occupier of the Delhi Congress chiefs chair, Arvinder Singh Lovely, and a band of other rebel Congress leaders, former MLAs, and AICC observers joined the BJP on Saturday, all eyes are now on the rest of the leaders among the 35 ex-MLAs who had expressed sympathy with the

KOCHI: The recent proposal to demolish the nearly 130-year-old iron bridge over the Padinjare puzha in Tripunithura to make way for a modern, wider structure has landed the public works department (PWD) in a rather murky puddle. Residents, experts and historians have voiced stiff opposition to the Rs 30-crore move, which they say is not only needless but also insensitive to the cultural and historical underpinnings that form the basis of the structure and its setting. Built in 1890, it is one of

NEW DELHI : Barely 20 days before polling in Delhi, Arvinder Singh Lovely, who recently stepped down from the post of Delhi Congress president, joined the BJP on Saturday along with four other party leaders. We are connected to people in all 70 Delhi Assembly constituencies. After resigning, I thought of sitting at home with honesty, but all of them said that I should join a strong party to fight for Delhi and the country, Lovely said after joining the saffron ranks. He said it was not just five

KOCHI : As demand soars, Kochi airport is set to add services to six new domestic destinations this month. Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) will revamp its summer schedule by adding Kolkata, Chandigarh, Varanasi, Raipur, Ranchi, and Lucknow to its network while enhancing its connectivity on established sectors. According to officials, the new routes will enhance connectivity. There has been a steady increase in domestic traffic. Passengers can take advantage of new routes and more flights

NEW DELHI: The Botanical Garden metro station has been awarded the title of Best Station, while the Shastri Park depot has been honored as the Best Metro Depot, according to a statement issued by the DMRC on Friday. Officials stated that over 70 employees of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) were recipients of the annual Managing Directors awards, recognizing their outstanding contributions over the past year. The DMRC celebrated its 30th foundation day at Bharat Mandapam on Friday. Priti

NEW DELHI : IHFC, the Technology Innovation Hub of IIT Delhi, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have joined hands to organise Robotics for Good, a UN-based educational robotics championship, for the first time in India in October. The IHFC has been appointed as the national organiser in India for the Robotics for Good Youth Challenge 2024-2025, a global initiative of the ITU, as part of AI for Good, the leading action-oriented, global, and inclusive United Nations platform on a

KOCHI: Securing a position in the World Wide Records, a nine-year-old boy crossed 4.5 km in the Vembanad lake on Saturday. Aaron Rohith Prakash, a student of Class 3 at Green Valley Public School in Kottamangalam, completed a daring adventure, crossing a 4.5-km stretch in 1 hour 51 minutes with his hands and legs tied. Starting from Alappuzha districts Cherthala Jetty at 8:30 am, he reached Vaikom Beach in Kottayam district, earning a spot in the World Wide Book of Records for the feat. Aaron Ro

NEW DELHI : The Delhi Police along with the National Security Guard (NSG) conducted security mock drills at the IGI airport, Rajiv Chowk Metro Station and DPS RK Puram here late Friday and early Saturday. The drills come days after nearly 200 schools received hoax bomb threats. The drill was conducted at IGI airport at Friday 10 pm by the NSG commandoes and Delhi Police. As part of the drill, the Central Industrial Security Force, which looks after the security of airport, was alerted about a mo

KOZHIKODE: Sunni leader and Indian Grand Mufti Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musaliyar has been felicitated at Bukhara city in Uzbekistan, the birthplace of renowned Islamic school Imam Bukhari. Kanthapuram was felicitated on Friday by scholars from various parts of the Middle East for his contributions to the study of Bukharis book on Hadees and the scholastic works he has been carrying out in various parts of the world. Sheikh Umar Hafiz, the founder of Darul Musthafa in Yemen, was also felicitat

NEW DELHI: Two sanitation workers, both hailing from West Bengal, died after allegedly inhaling poisonous fumes inside a sewage shaft at a house in Noida, police said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday evening when Nooni Mandal and Tapan Mandal were working at the residence of an individual named Sumit Chawla in Sector 26. According to police officials, both workers hailed from Malda district in West Bengal and were residing in a slum in Noida Sector 9. An individual in Noida Sector

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a major decision aimed at crowd control at Sabarimala, the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) has decided to do away with spot booking. Instead, booking through virtual queue will be allowed. It has also been decided to permit not more than 80,000 pilgrims to the hill shrine a day. TDB president P S Prasanth told TNIE that the decisions were taken in view of difficulties faced by devotees during the last pilgrimage season. Going by the new decisions, only those who book throu

NEW DELHI: Criminal conspiracy charges have been added to the FIR registered in connection with the doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shahs speech, the Delhi Police said on Saturday, a day after it arrested a national coordinator of the Congress social media team. Arun Beereddy, a native of Telanganas Hyderabad, who handled the Spirit of Congress account on X, was arrested from Delhi on Friday, police said. This is the first arrest made by the Delhi Police in the case. We have added sec

CHENNAI: In the scorching heat of Vellore, one of the hottest places in the state where temperature is now sizzling at 43 degrees Celsius, a 45-year-old traffic police personnel is busy regulating the traffic, trying his best to ignore the exhaustion from the heat. His shift begins at 11 am when the sun is at its brightest best. I am sweating profusely and it drains our energy quickly, he said, adding the concept of splitting the work hours in a day into two four-hour shifts instead of a single

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : In a major setback to mayor Arya Rajendran and her husband Sachin Dev, MLA, in the road rage controversy, the Cantonment Police on Saturday registered a case against the duo and three others who travelled with them. The case was registered following a directive from the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court Thiruvananthapuram on a petition filed by KSRTC driver H L Yedu seeking action against the mayor and the MLA . It is learnt that the charges imposed against them include

NEW DELHI : A 28-year-old man, who posted reels on Instagram in which he would purportedly try to assert his dominance over people, was abducted and beaten to death by five people in east Delhi, a official said on Saturday. The accused, identified as Anuj alias Annu (34), Pawan alias Vikas (34), Abhinav Raj alias Annu Pudi (27), Sandeep Ghawari (35), and Mukesh Kumar (35), have been arrested. DCP (East) Apoorva Gupta said the victim named Ashok alias Thanda Pani was found with multiple injuries

NEW DELHI : Two days after Delhi University announced to hold a Run for Viksit Bharat event with 5,000 students participants on May 8, OP Jindal Global University (JGU) has also sent an email to the students announcing a Viksit Bharat programme on Sunday. The email said the event, named Democracy in Action Programme, will give selected students an opportunity to work closely with the Chancellor of JGU, Naveen Jindal, a candidate for the Lok Sabha poll from the Kurukshetra constituency in Haryana

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : Gone are the days when orphanages and care homes were the go-to options for children without a family. In a significant shift, society has evolved enough to understand that every child needs the chance to grow up in a loving, family setting. Enter foster care. Its not a short-term commitment that merely provides a temporary home, rather about creating lasting bonds, says Anusha Andrews, a foster caregiver. She is part of over two hundred foster families in the state. Its the

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : Within a day of imposing restrictions on power consumption during peak hours, KSEB has yielded results by saving 200 mw of power. This has led the board officials to review the situation within two days and impose further restrictions. But to make matters worse, the consumers have been slapped with an additional 10 paisa surcharge along with the existing 9 paisa surcharge per unit of power in this months power bill. The KSEB has also decided to set up a control room to addre

DINDIGUL: Days after the Madras High Court ordered the Tamil Nadu government to introduce an e-pass system for tourists visiting the Nilgiris and Kodaikanal from May 7, the Kodaikanal Hotels and Resorts Association has sought the orders annulment and threatened to hold back food and lodging services to tourists. The court order was aimed at decongesting the hill stations, which usually witness a huge influx of tourists during the summer months. The order also asked the district collectors to ens

Radhakrishnan, who recently turned 85, speaks to TNIE on his decision to quit the Kendra Sahitya Akademi, why he believes reservation does little to uplift the downtrodden, how the RSS has been nullifying the achievements of renaissance, and his long literary career spanning six decades A scientist who is a writer, or a writer who is a scientist? Who is C Radhakrishnan? I am neither. I am just an ordinary person. I have studied science and done a lot of writing. I have also done some work in sci

BHUBANESWAR : A day after Canada police claimed to have arrested three Indian nationals over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said India is waiting for details from Canadian government or the police on the development. In an interaction with the media during his two-day visit to state, Jaishankar said the three arrested persons were apparently Indians having some kind of gang background. But he was yet to get a