File photo of Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: The Congress party is experiencing one of its steepest declines in Bihar in recent years, with early trends showing it leading in only five seats. The party won 19 seats in the 2020 assembly elections. This weak performance comes even as its ally, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, is…
NEW DELHI: Tej Pratap Yadav, founder of the Janshakti Janata Dal and candidate from Mahua, has fallen to fourth place in trends as counting begins for the Bihar Assembly Elections. According to the Election Commission, LJP (Ram Vilas) candidate Sanjay Kumar Singh is leading with 12,897 votes, ahead of RJD’s Mukesh Kumar Raushan who has…
As trends in the Bihar assembly election results emerge, NDA alliance has taken decisive leads across the state with Mahagathbandhan trailing. However, one name that is notably absent from the numbers is Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj. Despite promises to reshape Bihar’s political landscape, the results so far show no significant traction for the party.According to…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Jharkhand govt to notify 314 sq km of the Saranda Forest, marked by dense growth of pristine Sal trees, as a wildlife sanctuary within three months and said this would not in any manner impede the rights of forest dwellers and tribals.In its first decision in 1996…
Dismantled Many Networks Over Past 6 MonthsNew Delhi: While terror strikes understandably dominate news headlines and public discourse for days, the sustained and tireless efforts and operations by the security agencies to foil terror plots and nip attack conspiracies in the bud, may pass off without due notice.For instance, the six months preceding the Delhi…
Doctors at Delhi govt’s Lok Nayak Hospital (LNJP) confirmed the death of Bilal (35), who, according to police, lived near Jama Masjid. However, some sources said that he was a resident of Kangan in Ganderbal, Jammu & Kashmir.Among the most severely injured victims brought to the hospital after the explosion, Bilal suffered an abdominal-penetrating injury…
SRINAGAR: Expanding its crackdown on ‘white-collar terror’, J&K Police’s Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) on Thursday carried out searches at 13 locations across the Valley in connection with the ongoing probe into the Delhi blast case. A police officer confirmed the raids, but did not reveal if anyone was detained.In a related development, State Investigation Agency (SIA)…
NEW DLEHI: A brief commotion broke out during Bollywood playback singer Shreya Ghoshal’s concert at the Bali Jatra ground in Cuttack, Odisha, on Thursday evening, after an overwhelming crowd surge left one person injured, officials said, PTI reported.The situation turned chaotic when a large crowd surged towards the stage as Ghoshal appeared, prompting organisers to…
NEW DELHI: Six people were killed and at least eight others were injured in a road accident near Navale Bridge on the Pune–Bengaluru Highway on Thursday evening. According to officials, a container truck lost control and rammed into multiple vehicles. Two to three heavy vehicles caught fire following the collision.Videos from the scene showed a…
NEW DELHI: An Air India flight from Toronto to Delhi received a bomb threat while mid-air on Thursday, prompting a security alert before landing safely in the national capital, according to sources quoted by PTI.Delhi Police received the threat message concerning flight AI188 in the morning, following which the Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC) was…