RTI reply: 'No commonly delineated' LAC between India-China

Mumbai (IANS) As India and China with increasing frequency grunt and growl at each over their territorial rights, an RTI reply has said that there is actually no 'Line of Actual Control' between the world's two most populous nations.

TN's Villupuram tense as Dalits barred from entering state govt-controlled temple

Chennai (IANS) Tamil Nadu's Villupuram was tense on Monday after caste Hindus did not let Dalit community members enter the local Shri Dharmaraja Draupati Amman Temple at Melpathi village.

The temple, interestingly, is controlled by the…

Fugitive Amritpal's aide Papalpreet arrested in Punjab

Chandigarh (IANS) Papalpreet Singh, a close aide of fugitive 'Waris Punjab De' chief and self-styled radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, was arrested in Punjab's Hoshiarpur village on Monday.

The Punjab government confirmed his…

'Serious doubts on motive of petitioners': Gujarat to SC on fake encounters

New Delhi (IANS) The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that there were serious doubts about the locus and motive of the petitioners in a matter connected with the alleged fake encounter cases in the state, between 2002 and 2006.

28 booked for 'rioting', trespass' to offer namaz on govt property in UP

Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) (IANS) Twenty-eight persons, three named and other unnamed, have been booked for 'rioting' and 'criminal trespass' by police for allegedly installing loudspeakers and offering mass prayers on a state…

Infiltration bid on LoC foiled in J&K's Poonch, one intruder killed

Jammu (IANS) One intruder was killed after a major infiltration bid was foiled by the Army at the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday.

"On the intervening night of 8/9 Apr 2023, alert troops…

Kerala BJP leaders visit Bishop houses on Easter in a move to woo Christians

Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) The BJP leaders of Kerala, including Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan and party national executive member and former state president, P.K. Krishnadas paid visits to the Bishop houses in the state.

Kerala Police probe PFI, SDPI link in train fire case

Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) Even as the accused in the Kozhikode train fire case, Shahrukh Saifi has deposed before the investigators that he had planned the attack on his own, police have not taken that version at all.

Sources in the Kerala…

Job scam: ED gets proof of Ayan Sil's involvement in 6,000 hirings

Kolkata (IANS) Enforcement Directorate (ED) has found evidence confirming the involvement of arrested private real estate promoter Ayan Sil in the 6,000 recruitments made in municipalities and state-run schools of West Bengal.

According to…

After row, Sharad Pawar 'clarifies' on JPC probe remarks, bats for SC panel

Mumbai (IANS) A day after his sensational remarks expressing doubts over a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Hindenburg Research report against the Adani Group, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar on Saturday claimed…