NEW DELHI: Congress renegade Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said he left the party because of Rahul Gandhi, and took potshots at the Gandhi scion, including for his tearing up an ordinance when UPA was in office. He said Rahul's rejection of the ordinance had boomeranged on him, referring to his disqualification from Lok Sabha.He spoke at the launch function of his autobiography, 'Azaad', on Wednesday,...

NEW DELHI: To make bone marrow transplant affordable, the Union government has planned to set up centres at its three hospitals in Delhi. Till date, only AIIMS Delhi has a facility in the city and the treatment cost is exorbitant in private hospitals. "If all goes well, the centres are likely to start soon at Safdarjung, RML and Lady Hardinge hospitals," said a doctor, who recently attended a meeting at...

NEW DELHI: Delhi recorded 509 fresh Covid-19 cases in a single day on Wednesday breaching the 25 per cent positivity rate mark.The positivity rate stood at 26.54 per cent, while no new fatalities were logged.Delhi had recorded 521 cases on Tuesday, the highest single-day rise since August 27 last year, and one fatality, PTI quoted data shared by the city health department.The positivity rate stood at...

GUWAHATI: China’s latest claim to Arunachal Pradesh by releasing a list of “standardised geographical names” for 11 places in the frontier state turns out to be a random naming of isolated forest tracts, nondescript peaks, non-existent rivers and town areas superficially bound together as part of Cona, Zayu and Medog counties in Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet. For instance, the coordinates of two...

THANE: The Shiv Sena's (Eknath Shinde faction) youth wing on Tuesday filed an FIR against a rapper in Ambernath of Thane district for allegedly using objectionable and abusive remarks against the ruling Shiv Sena (Shinde) and BJP in the state.The FIR was filed by Snehal Kamble, a member of the Yuva Sena core committee at Shivaji Nagar police station.Raj Mungase, is a resident of Chhatrapati Sambhaji...

BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik and the state government delegation held a meeting with the senior leadership of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and discussed various upcoming social-sector and infrastructure projects in Odisha on Wednesday. The JICA leadership reiterated their commitment to supporting infrastructure development in the state.Amid speculation that Odisha may try...

COIMBATORE: Around 2,000 police personnel would be deployed from Masinagudi to Theppakadu on April 9 to provide security for Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Theppakadu elephant camp in the Nilgiris to honour mahout Bomman and his wife Bellie, heroes of Oscar-winning short documentary film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’.The 7km stretch, which is situated at the trijunction of Tamil Nadu,...

GURGAON: Three men who ran a gang that allegedly duped women from different states after befriending them through matrimonial sites were arrested, Haryana's Gurgaon Police said on Wednesday. A Nigerian national who is reportedly the kingpin of the gang is absconding and police are conducting raids to nab him, they said.PTI quoted a senior police officer as saying that the accused were identified as Aman...

GURGAON: Cyber police in Haryana’s Gurgaon, on Wednesday, arrested four fraudsters busting a gang, which allegedly cheated more than 800 women by luring them to invest in a mobile application and work from home. The gang recently duped a DLF Phase III woman of over Rs 2 lakh asking her to invest through a mobile app and promising her high returns, said police.The accused were identified as Tushar...

MUMBAI: Union minister Narayan Rane on Wednesday alleged that Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray had attempted to offer contracts for his assassination.During a press conference in Mumbai, the BJP MP made accusations against Thackeray, claiming that while he served as the chief minister of Maharashtra (from November 2019 to June 2022), he was involved in corrupt practices in the procurement of...