NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday arrested former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel‘s son Chaitanya Baghel in connection with the alleged multi-crore liquor scam in the state.This comes hours after the central agency carried out search at the premises of senior Congress leader at his Bhilai residence.The federal probe agency had conducted similar raids…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has come out in strong support of his brother-in-law Robert Vadra, who faces money laundering charges from the Enforcement Directorate (ED).Taking to X, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha denounced the ED’s chargesheet as a “witch hunt” that has persisted for a decade.“My brother-in-law has been hounded by this government…
NEW DELHI: India on Friday welcomed the United States’ decision to formally designate The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). The move follows TRF’s claimed role in the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, which killed 26 civilians.In…
NEW DELHI: RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of his visit to poll-bound Bihar, claiming that “electoral force” was drawing the PM to the state.In a social media post on X, Lalu accused the Prime Minister of coming to Bihar to “tell lies”.“Would you…
India test-fires Prithvi-II & Agni-1 ballistic missiles (ANI) NEW DELHI: India on Thursday conducted successive tests of short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, the Prithvi-2 and Agni-1, in what constitutes some strategic deterrence messaging to Pakistan soon after the intense cross-border hostilities under Operation Sindoor from May 7 to 10.The Prithvi-2 (350-km strike range) and Agni-1 (700-km)…
Baisaran Valley, Pahalgam (File photo) The United States on Thursday designated The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the banned Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). The TRF — the group responsible for the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people.The US department of…
At an elevation of 3,200 metres, Ladakh’s rugged mountain sweep in the backdrop, a group of five sat huddled and listened intently to the ‘click-clickclick’ captured in a recording. The insect-like call was proof that one of the most elusive bird species they had come looking for was there.Visual proof came soon enough, making July…
KOLKATA: Three persons awarded death sentence for a murder and incarcerated for the past 11 years were acquitted on Thursday by Calcutta high court, which ruled that the prosecution had failed to conclusively establish their hand in the killing of a 28-year-old woman, whose mutilated body was found at Sealdah railway station in 2014.A division…
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah BENGALURU: In a faux pas, Meta’s auto-translation tool “digitally” killed off Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah while translating a condolence message posted by CMO on social media Tuesday. Understandably furious at being referred to as “late” CM, Siddaramaiah told Meta to suspend its Kannada auto-translation feature until it learns not to distort facts.The condolence…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala govt is set to introduce the Kerala Prohibition of Ragging (Amendment) Bill, 2025, overhauling its two-decade-old anti-ragging legislation. This move comes in the wake of the death of J S Siddharthan — a student of Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Pookode, Wayanad, at his hostel last February — which highlighted critical loopholes…
