Sanjay Nirupam says Congress ‘ideologically irrelevant’, has five clashing power centres

April 04, 2024 09:51 pm | Updated 09:51 pm IST - Pune Stating that the Congress party had become ideologically irrelevant and its leaders “monumentally arrogant”, expelled Maharashtra Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam launched a broadside against the grand old party on Thursday, remarking that it had five “power centres” that …...Read More

A portion of Althara-Thycaud Road opened for traffic

April 04, 2024 09:49 pm | Updated 09:49 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM A day after NoRKA-Gandhi Bhavan Road, the sixth smart road undertaken under the Smart City project in the capital, was opened for traffic, the authorities here on Thursday opened a portion of the Althara-Thycaud road, which is under …...Read More

Kerala CM slams Doordarshan’s move to broadcast The Kerala Story

April 04, 2024 09:45 pm | Updated 09:45 pm IST - Thiruvananthapuram Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has slammed the Doordarshan’s decision to broadcast the communally polarising and slanderous film The Kerala Story. He said the national broadcaster’s move sought to besmirch Kerala and also spawn communal hatred. The Bharatiya Janata …...Read More

Kochi metro joins ONDC network

April 04, 2024 09:42 pm | Updated 09:42 pm IST The Kochi metro has joined the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) network – the second mode of mass rapid transport after Chennai metro. Commuters can thus avail a single or return trip in Kochi metro through, among others, Yatri, …...Read More

Body found in search for missing 25-year-old Molly Ann Garbutt from Leeds

A body has been found in the search for a missing 25-year-old woman from Leeds. North Yorkshire Police issued an urgent appeal to find Molly Ann Garbutt after her black Renault Clio was found parked off the B6265, near to Dibbles Bridge at Hebden, at 8am on Wednesday morning. RAF …...Read More

KCR ‘admitted’ to phone tapping in MLAs’ poaching case, says Congress MLA

April 04, 2024 09:38 pm | Updated 09:38 pm IST - Hyderabad Mahabubnagar MLA Yennem Srinivas Reddy argued that BRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao himself had admitted to phone tapping when he displayed the video footage of BJP agents trying to ‘buy out’ the then BRS MLAs. At a press …...Read More

TTE attacked by beggar on Jan Shatabdi Express

April 04, 2024 09:38 pm | Updated 09:38 pm IST - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM A beggar reportedly attacked a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) on the Thiruvananthapuram-Kannur Jan Shatabdi Express here on Thursday, close on the heels of the death of a TTE allegedly by a migrant worker who shoved him out of …...Read More

Robert Vadra keen to fight Lok Sabha election from Amethi

April 04, 2024 09:37 pm | Updated 09:37 pm IST - NEW DELHI Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra has expressed his desire to contest the general election from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, saying that people of the constituency want someone from the Gandhi family to represent them …...Read More

Congress MP Surjewala summoned for ‘indecent’ comments against Hema Malini

April 04, 2024 09:37 pm | Updated 09:37 pm IST - GURUGRAM The Haryana State Women Commission on April 4 issued summons against senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala for making “indecent” comments against actor-turned-politician Hema Malini during an election rally. He was directed to be present …...Read More

CBSE exams for Classes 11, 12 to focus more on checking concept clarity

April 04, 2024 09:35 pm | Updated 09:35 pm IST - New Delhi The exams for Classes 11 and 12 from the 2024-25 session will include more competency-based questions that assess the application of concepts in real-life situations, according to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) officials who announced a …...Read More