BHOPAL: Senior Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh engaged in a banter over ‘kapda faad’ – whose ‘clothes should be torn’ over party workers’ resentment at tickets – during the manifesto release ceremony on Tuesday.Digvijaya and Nath traded jokes at the event, with the Rajya Sabha MP saying that Nath’s clothes should be torn, […]
NEW DELHI: Retail inflation eased to a three-month low in September as food prices moderated, bringing much-needed relief from surging price pressures, while industrial output growth rose to a 14-month high in August led by a robust manufacturing sector. Reserve Bank of India has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.5%: Shaktikanta Das […]
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday visited Amritsar in Punjab and offered prayers at the Golden Temple. During his visit to the Sachkhand Shri Harmandir Sahib, he also performed sewa (voluntary service) in the langar (community kitchen).A video of the Congress leader involved in washing the dishes has been shared on social media […]
NEW DELHI: The Chinese delegation which was here for the G20 summit had insisted on carrying 20 bags containing “suspicious equipment” to their rooms.A day after TOI broke the story of the high-wattage confrontation between the Chinese and a team of alert security officers on the sixth floor of Taj Palace hotel in national capital, […]
NEW DELHI: The government on Saturday announced the committee for ‘One Nation, One Election‘ which will explore the possibility of simultaneous elections in the country.The chairman of the committee is former President Ram Nath Kovind. The high-level panel on simultaneous elections will primarily examine and make recommendations for holding simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha, assemblies, […]
NEW DELHI: Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International, passed away in AIIMS-Delhi on Tuesday due to cardiac arrest. He was 80. According to some media reports, Pathak’s health suddenly deteriorated shortly after he hoisted the national flag at Sulabh International’s central office in Delhi, following which he was rushed to AIIMS.He was a visionary, says […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on the Manipur government as well as the police over the “complete break down of constitutional machinery” in the strife-torn state from May till July. It also summoned the Manipur DGP to explain why “tardy probe” was carried out by the state police in cases […]
WASHINGTON: Here’s another double for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to go with the two-fer in addressing the US Congress. A state banquet at the White House is rare enough for foreign leaders — he’s only the third to get one in the current administration — but Modi is also dining privately with President Joe Biden […]
IMPHAL: The private residence of Congress MLA K Ranjit Singh was among a cluster of houses and shops set ablaze by suspected militants at Serou Bazar near Sugnu in Manipur’s Kakching district late Saturday, keeping the flames of the ethnic conflict alive and creating new flashpoints for the security establishment to deal with. 01:50 Manipur […]
NEW DELHI: At least 230 people were killed after three different trains derailed one on top of another in horrific sequence in Odisha‘s Balasore district late on Friday. According to officials, more than 900 people were injured at the site of the accident.PM Modi has convened a meeting to review the situation in relation to […]