2023

NEW DELHI: Though BJP executed an interesting social-engineering move by rejigging the caste quotas while making forays into the Vokkaliga constituency of JDS in the old Mysuru region, it continues to view the numerically preponderant Lingayats as its core constituency.Evidently, that is the reason when Lingayat community veteran B S Yediyurappa quit as chief minister, he was replaced by Basavaraj...

THANE: An alert constable caught a dummy candidate who was to appear for a police recruitment exam. He was padded up with gadgets, the police said. The accused has been arrested and a case has been registered against him at Rabodi police station.The exams were scheduled at the Saraswati school on Sunday. As the candidates were going inside the exam centre, a constable Ishwar Gholwad was frisking...

PILIBHIT: Security agency sleuths, who arrived in Pilibhit from Lucknow on Sunday to collect more information on the absconding Waris Punjab De leader Amritpal Singh and his aide Papalpreet Singh, found that CCTV footage up to the evening of March 25 at Mohanapur gurdwara "had gone missing", reports Keshav Agarwal. Joga Singh, a kar-sevak at the gurdwara, was arrested on March 30 after the recovery of...

KOLKATA: Bengal is taking a legal "diversion" to allow juvenile offenders charged with non-heinous offences be with parents while serving out their rehabilitation programme, instead of the typical practice of keeping young delinquents at a detention centre.The state started on Sunday "a multi-stakeholder consultation" with Unicef and West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) to...

India logged over 3,800 new Covid cases on Saturday, the highest daily tally in six months, as infections in the past seven days surged at the fastest rate since the third wave in January 2022. India recorded over 18,450 fresh cases in the past week (March 26-April 1), a 2.1x rise over the previous seven days’ tally of 8,781. The doubling time of cases has reduced to less than seven days. The last...

NEW DELHI: Delhi on Sunday recorded 429 fresh Covid cases, the highest in more than seven months, with the positivity rate rising to 16.09 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. One Covid-related death was reported in the city. The health bulletin, however, said the primary cause of death was not Covid.The death toll due to the infection stands at 26,530. Delhi saw 416 fresh...

MUMBAI: Maharashtra on Sunday reported 562 new Covid-19 cases, taking the overall infection tally to 81,45,342. Three deaths were also reported from the state raising the fatality count to 1,48,444, a health official said. The single-day infection tally dropped by 107 as compared to Saturday when the state had logged 669 cases. A total of 395 patients were discharged in the past 24 hours that took the...

NEW DELHI: Reiterating that India's relationship with China is not normal and that tension persists along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said that any military aggression has to be countered in a similar manner. "In 2020, even when Covid was going on, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had no hesitation in moving the Indian Army and Indian Air Force in very...

KOLKATA: A fresh bout of violence erupted in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Sunday evening during the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Shobha Yatra. The incident caused chaos and led to the throwing of stones. This comes after clashes had broken out during a Ram Navami procession in Howrah's Shibpur on Thursday.“Stone pelted at women and children during the Shobha Yatra. The state govt is taking no...

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