CHENNAI: Around a decade and a half before Los Angeles elected her as its first Indian-origin mayor, Kerala-born Tamil Nithya Raman sat with residents of a south Chennai suburb to map the notorious traffic snarls that would routinely disrupt their lives.On Thursday, WhatsApp groups in Nanganallur were buzzing with messages claiming the face riding the…
Office-bearers from 12 states skipped eventNEW DELHI: Indian Youth Congress has suspended over 300 office-bearers from the organisation for not showing up for the ‘Chalo Delhi’ rally of INDIA bloc Sunday – a significant step to drive home the message that the outfit is serious about mass mobilisation in future.IYC sources said organisational office-bearers from…
Security forces Thursday launched a massive cordon and search operation in Manipur‘s Noney, a day after three militants were killed in a gunfight between rival Naga outfits. Over 500 personnel from Manipur Police, CRPF’s CoBRA unit and Assam Rifles began the operation in Nungba and Kekru Naga areas. Elsewhere in state, thousands of Nagas rallied…
NEW DELHI: BJP netas accused the opposition of plotting unrest after Times Now Navbharat aired its undercover sting, “Operation Regime Change”, while Congress demanded concrete evidence.BJP spokesman Gaurav Bhatia said the sting exposed alleged attempts at “regime change”. He accused the opposition of preferring anarchy to democratic transfer of power. Citing alleged remarks by some…
NEW DELHI: Referring to the contradictory orders given by Supreme Court in the matter of bail to the accused on the ground of delay in trial and long incarceration for UAPA offences, which have been referred to a larger bench for authoritative pronouncement, former student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam have moved SC for…
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Zone, Sujit Kumar speaks during a press conference, in Srinagar Valley recruitment stopped this year: Police chiefSRINAGAR: Kashmir has just one active local terrorist and recruitment in the valley completely stopped this year, while security forces were tracking a handful of foreign terrorists believed to be assisting him, J&K…
SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah will hold a meeting with the dissident legislators of National Conference (NC) on Friday and listen to their demands, party sources said, adding that he will try to redress the grievances of the MLAs.The meeting comes in the wake of an open revolt that has shaken the…
Vehicle transfers cost up to 10x statutory fees; UP, Bihar and Bengal ranked worst on the Ease of Vehicle Ownership Index 2026. NEW DELHI: Vehicle ownership transfers can cost up to 10 times the statutory fees, with total expenses, including agent charges, in the range of Rs 13,000-14,000 in parts of Bihar, Rs 7,000-8,000 in…
NEW DELHI: Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) has allocated slots to 38 of the 50 international airlines for summer 2027 schedule to operate to and from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA). Twelve airlines have not been given CSMIA slots next summer. These 12 collectively operate about 16 daily flights to 14 international destinations. Sources…
NEW DELHI: Elected student union representatives from Delhi, Punjab, Ladakh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Assam and the Northeast, on Wednesday, joined a rally organised by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at the University of Delhi on Wednesday. They called for upholding democratic values and protecting constitutional institutions, the ABVP said in a statement.Over 15,000 students and…
