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PATNA: I do not comment on court matters, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar said Wednesday in response to a question on Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as MP. He, however, added that his party, JD(U), has commented on the matter. The party also joined Congress' protests. He said it was his earnest desire that "maximum number of opposition parties" unite against BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, adding that he...

THANE: A constable attached to the special protection unit in Mumbai was found dead on the railway tracks between Taloja and Niljhe stations on Wednesday morning. Police suspect Vaibhav Kadam may have ended his life, however, no suicide note was found on him or near his body. An accidental death case has been registered with Thane railway police.Kadam was part of the police cover provided to former...

NEW DELHI: Two months after the order of the Kerala high court's January 25 order staying P P Mohammad Faizal's conviction, the Lok Sabha secretariat restored the membership of the disqualified Lakshadweep MP (of NCP) - just hours before the Supreme Court was set to take up his petition against the delay. However, soon after his return to LS, came a mighty dampener from the SC, which questioned the high...

KALYAN: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) MLA Pramod Patil on Wednesday warned the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) to remove hawkers from outside Dombivli station on Wednesday. Patil along with his supporters reached the railway station to remove the hawkers. However, before Patil reached at the station area, the hawkers had fled.Dombivli city usually witnesses crowds near the station and...

KOLKATA: Officers of the customs (preventive) in Kolkata on Wednesday seized the skin of a Royal Bengal tiger and a pair of black buck antlers when a smuggler was trying to cross the India-Bangladesh border near Bhatgachi village in Krishnanagar division of West Bengal. The smuggler fled leaving the articles as the officials chased him. Customs officers laid a discreet naka near Bhatgachhi village and...

CHENNAI: The Chennai zonal unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested three men for smuggling 3.9 kg of ephedrine, a controlled substance, from Chennai to Mumbai via Bengaluru.Based on information, NCB sleuths secured one of them at Periamet in Chennai on March 25 (Saturday) and seized the drug, which he had hidden in three handbags and embroidery mats. Based on his inputs, another man,...

NEW DELHI: For the first time since September of last year, Delhi's Covid-19 cases rose to 300 on Wednesday, and the positivity rate increased to 13.89%, according to data shared by health department. Two more deaths related to Covid were also reported, it said.Delhi recorded 214 cases on Tuesday, with a positivity rate of 11.82 per cent.On Monday, Delhi logged 115 new coronavirus cases with a seven...

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday stayed the investigation in a first information report (FIR) against Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Maharashtra president Preeti Sharma Menon and a functionary under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.Justices Sunil Shukre and Milind Sathaye granted interim relief to Menon, who is also a member of AAP's national executive, and...

Priyanka Chopra has stirred the hornet’s nest with her recent statements and the internet is yet to come to terms with the unsettling revelations and confessions. ETimes delves deep into Priyanka’s allegations of politics in Bollywood. What’s the Karan Johar connection here? What’s the story behind Kangana Ranaut’s claims? Who are the people involved in ending Priyanka’s Bollywood career? Is...

THANE: A constable — attached to the special protection unit in Mumbai — died hours later after he was found with serious injuries on the railway tracks between Taloja (in Raigad district) and Nilajhe (in Thane district) stations near Diva in Maharashtra on Wednesday morning, Thane railway police officials said. The constable was not on duty at the time of the incident, officials said.The railway...