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Bengaluru: An earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale shook parts of Hassan district and neighbouring regions in Karnataka in the wee hours of Thursday, a disaster management official said. The earthquake was also felt in many villages near Somwarpet in Kodagu district. People ran out of their houses following the tremor. According to Karnataka […]

Mumbai: Recovering from its record low, the rupee inched higher by 9 paise to 78.23 against the US dollar in early morning trade on Thursday. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 78.26 against the American dollar, then inched higher to quote at 78.23, registering a rise of 9 paise from the previous […]

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has allocated Rs 7.2 crore to mitigate man-animal conflict in the seven forest ranges under the Coimbatore forest division. Artificial Intelligence-based e-surveillance cameras would be installed on a pilot basis in the Madukkarai forest range under the Coimbatore forest division. This area is vulnerable to man-animal conflict with wild elephants […]

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday condoled the loss of lives in floods in Assam and urged party workers to continue extending assistance in rescue and rehabilitation operations. The flood situation in Assam remained grim on Wednesday as 12 more people were killed and 55 lakh people affected across 32 districts with the […]

New Delhi: India logged 13,313 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,33,44,958, while the active cases rose to 83,990, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,941 with 38 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]

Pilibhit: Ten persons were killed when a pick-up van rammed into a tree on Puranpur highway under the Gajraula police circle here on Thursday morning. Seven others were seriously injured in the accident and have been admitted to a hospital. According to reports, the van was moving at a high speed when the driver apparently dozed […]

Lakhimpur Kheri:  Motion sensor cameras, baits and a cage have been placed near the temple where a tigress reportedly mauled a priest to death last week. Forest officials are combing the area with two elephants to spot the tigress that is said to have devoured 18 humans in the past two years in the Dudhwa […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the new premises of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Vanijya Bhawan on Thursday at 10:30 am. Constructed near the India Gate, the Vanijya Bhawan is designed as a smart building which incorporates the principles of sustainable architecture with a special focus on energy saving. […]

Hyderabad: The expose of the Narendra Modi government’s ‘power-play’ in the Sri Lanka-Adani green energy plant deal doesn’t seem to have had any impact on the Centre as is evident from its continued efforts to favour certain corporate giants. The latest exercise in this direction has been in the contentious coal imports, with the BJP […]

Mumbai: Stoutly denying that the Shiv Sena had discarded Hindutva, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said that he is ready to quit his post and also as party chief provided the rebels come and talk to him face-to-face. In a direct challenge to the group of rebels led by Minister Eknath Shinde who […]

Mumbai: Despite being a party of committed cadres with unflinching loyalty to leadership of the day, the Shiv Sena has been vulnerable to rebellions in its ranks and it has seen revolts by prominent figures on four occasions, three of them under the watch of its charismatic founder Bal Thackeray, with Eknath Shinde becoming the […]

Mumbai: Two suspected turncoat Shiv Sena MLAs made a dramatic escape from the rebels’ camp – led by senior Minister Eknath Shinde and others who had pitched tent in a five-star hotel in Surat, Gujarat – and reached Maharashtra safely in the past 24 hours. The Sena MLAs who ‘escaped’ are: Kailas Patil from Osmanabad […]

Guwahati: Rebel Shiv Sena Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday claimed that 40 MLAs have accompanied him to Guwahati and they are devoted to Balasaheb Thackeray’s ‘Hindutva’ ideology. Shinde and 32 Shiv Sena MLAs and seven other legislators belonging to smaller parties and independents arrived in Guwahati on Wednesday and are now staying at a luxury hotel […]

Guwahati: Shiv Sena MLA Nitin Deshmukh, who arrived here along with fellow party MLAs on Wednesday from Surat, returned to his home state of Maharashtra with five other partymen within hours, sources said, as rebel Sena legislators remain encamped at a hotel here. Deshmukh, who arrived at Guwahati early this morning in a chartered aircraft […]

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that the Centre was “weakening” the army through the ‘Agnipath’ scheme, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to withdraw the military recruitment initiative just like the farm laws were rolled back. The former Congress chief also thanked party workers for their support during his […]

Mumbai: Amid the massive political upheaval in the state, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray tested Covid-19 positive here on Wednesday afternoon. State Congress President Nana Patole confirmed the developments though there was no comment from the CM Office. The development came hours after Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari tested Corona positive this morning. While the Governor […]

Patna: Amid ongoing protests over the Centre’s new military recruitment scheme Agnipath, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday questioned the Centre over the scheme and asked if ‘Agniveers’ will feel insecure about their future, how will they be able to defend the country’s borders? “They must not mess with the future of the youth at […]

Mumbai: As the political crisis continued to worsen, Shiv Sena Chief Spokesperson and MP Sanjay Raut made a telling tweet that the situation in Maharashtra is headed towards ‘dissolution’ of the Legislative Assembly, here on Wednesday. Interacting with mediapersons briefly, Raut said: “At the most what will happen.. Our government will lose the majority in […]

Mumbai: Amid a political turmoil in Maharashtra that has put up a question mark on the survival of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition government, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has called a State Cabinet meeting at 1 pm on Wednesday. This comes as speculation is rife that Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde along with other […]

Lucknow: Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Special Task Force (STF) Amitabh Yash has blamed the basic education department for not effectively pursuing court cases against teachers, identified for having submitted forged documents to get government jobs. In a letter to the department bosses, Yash has pointed out that out of 228 fraudulent teachers, the […]

Surat: As per plan, Shiv Sena’s rebel MLAs were to be flown to Guwahati at Tuesday midnight, but as per news reports, the rebel MLAs have not left the hotel, though three buses have arrived at the Le Meridien Hotel an hour before to drive them to the Surat airport. According to sources, a charter […]

Surat: The dissident group of Shiv Sena MLAs finally boarded a chartered flight from the Surat airport after keeping the chartered plane waiting for hours. Before boarding the flight, rebel Shiv Sena leader and Maharastra Cabinet Minister Eknath Shinde said that Sena MLAs have not revolted against the party but their only wish is forming […]

Hyderabad: The deepening political crisis in Maharashtra is further accentuated by the deft moves of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which apparently does not want to lose an opportunity to topple the Maha Vikas Aghadi government to take control of the reins of the State. The fast-paced developments on Tuesday in which Eknath Shinde raised […]

Mumbai/Surat: Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Shiv Sena strongman Eknath Shinde plunged the ruling alliance in the State into a political crisis on Tuesday as he rebelled against his party and landed in a Surat hotel along with some Sena MLAs, putting a huge question mark on the stability of the two-and-a-half-years old MVA dispensation. Though […]