Din rages to 'topple' Gandhiji from Indian currency note pedestal

Mumbai (IANS) A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's demand to add images of Goddess Laxmi and Lord Ganesh on Indian currency notes (ICN), clamour grew on Thursday among various political parties to 'topple' or 'overcrowd'…

Ex-Chief Secy Andaman & Nicobar at epicentre of job-for-sex racket

Chennai (IANS) Senior IAS officer and former Chief Secretary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jitendra Narain is at the epicentre of a sexual allegation in which 20 women were allegedly taken to his Port Blair residence in a job-for-sex racket. Some…

Azam Khan convicted in 2019 hate speech case

Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) (IANS) Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has been convicted in the 2019 hate speech case.

He was taken into judicial custody, and the quantum of sentence will be pronounced at 3 p.m. Thursday.

The case was registered…

Coimbatore car blast: Stalin convenes high-level meeting of officials

Chennai (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin convened a high-level meeting of officials on Wednesday in the wake of the Coimbatore car blast in which a 25-year-old youth, Jameesha Mubin, died and five of his accomplices arrested under UAPA.

10 fear stricken Kashmiri Pandit families abandon homes in J&K's Shopian district

Srinagar (IANS) Driven by fear in the aftermath of Kashmiri Pandit Puran Krishan Bhat's killing by terrorists, about 10 families of local Pandits have left their homes in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district and shifted to Jammu.

Bhat…

100 Punjabi workers stranded in Abu Dhabi without passports

Chandigarh (IANS) At least 100 Punjabi immigrant workers have been stranded in Abu Dhabi without passports, and were seeking help from the Indian government for their safety and early evacuation, according to the media reports.

Their family…

Lingayat seer suicide case takes political turn, police begin probe

Ramnagar, (Karnataka) (IANS) Police in Karnataka have started a probe into the suicide of a 45-year-old Lingayat seer in Ramnagar district after preliminary inquiry revealed that he was being harassed by a local politician, sources said on Tuesday.

Pak militants outnumber locals in J&K, training 'hybrid' terror outfits

New Delhi (IANS) The increased number of foreign (Pakistani) terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir has added to the challenges of Indian security agencies, which revealed that the said terrorists are working to prepare hybrid terrorists in the Valley. The…

As countdown starts for WB panchayat polls, TMC has a lot to answer for

Kolkata (IANS) As the West Bengal State Election Commission has blown the bugle for the three-tier panchayat polls in West Bengal in March next year, political circles feel that the rural civic body polls would be under totally different circumstances…

Court of Inquiry to probe Army chopper crash in Arunachal, 4 out of 5 bodies found

Itanagar (IANS) Army authority has constituted a Court of Inquiry to investigate the causes of the crash of an Advanced Light Combat helicopter of the Indian Army in Arunachal Pradesh's Upper Siang district, and bodies of four of the five personnel…