Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin (File photo) CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin escalated on Tuesday his attack on BJP, signalling statewide protests if Centre pushes ahead with delimitation and invoking DMK’s anti-Hindi agitations of the 1950s and 1960s.In a video message on X, Stalin said the state would “come to a standstill” if the…
Patna: The pace of Piped Natural Gas (PNG) connection provisioning in Bihar has increased significantly, reaching around 7,585 connections per month in March. The state is now targeting to take this to 9,000 to 12,000 per month.Various such data were shared at a crisis management group meeting chaired by chief secretary Pratyaya Amrit on Monday.The…
Ranchi: The Jharkhand high court on Monday directed the state govt to form a committee for establishing open correctional institutions (OCIs) in the state. Following a Supreme Court directive, the HC ordered the home secretary to constitute a three-member committee to look into the matter and furnish a report thereof.A division bench of Chief Justice…
Ranchi: The Jharkhand high court on Monday was informed by the state govt that the name of the candidate to be appointed as Lokayukta will be sent for final affirmation to the office of the governor within a week from Monday.A division bench of Chief Justice M S Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar were hearing…
Pratibha Patil backs Nari Shakti Law. NEW DELHI: Former President Pratibha Devisingh Patil wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing her strong support for the implementation of the women’s quota bill, calling it a ‘transformative step’ for India’s democracy.Patil, who served as the country’s first woman and 12th President from 2007 to 2012, said the…
Trinamool has alleged all along that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls was designed to favour BJP. But in the Matua belt along some of Bengal’s border districts, it is the local BJP that is crying foul over SIR. Matuas — a Hindu sect from Bangladesh — had voted for BJP in large…
MUMBAI: The deaths of two MBA students at a music concert in Mumbai have once again put the spotlight on ecstasy (MDMA) — a party drug often associated with nightlife but capable of turning fatal within hours.Known on the street as “Molly” or “E”, ecstasy is a synthetic psychoactive substance that stimulates the brain while…
Vinesh Chandel (Photo credit:I-PAC co-founder Vinesh Chandel/X) NEW DELHI: I-PAC promoter director Vinesh Chandel, arrested here late on Monday, was sent to 10 days of ED custody after being produced around midnight before additional sessions judge at the Patiala House courts, Shefali Barnala Tandon, at her residence. The judge gave her order at 3.30 am.Meanwhile,…
CHENNAI: Former Union minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday that the representation of southern states will reduce to 20.7% while the representation of northern states will increase after delimitation.Calling delimitation exercise a “mischievous, diabolical move to radically alter the federal balance”, Chidambaram said on X that the southern states will lose their representation after delimitation.“When…
Buxar: Two people died in separate road accidents in the district on Tuesday.In the first incident, a 43-year-old woman, Neetu Kumari, lost her life in a car accident on Ara-Buxar highway near Ramgarh under Brahampur police station area of the district. Her husband, Vineet Kumar, and their son, Devansh Patel, were seriously injured in the…
