- Sunday, April 20, 2025
AT LEAST 20 cadres of a banned Maoist group have been arrested in Nepal for staging protests against India's new political map. The students, linked with the Nepal Communist Party- a splinter Maoist faction led by Netra Bikram Chand 'Bipalv' -- were arrested at Maitighar area, a senior police official…
THE talented Shreyas Iyer has been given a "heads up" by the Indian team management that he will be the designated No 4 batsman in white-ball format after a string of impressive performances in the past few months. India tried umpteen players at the number four spot in the lead…
SENIOR Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said if the BJP was not willing to fulfill its promise of sharing the chief ministers post in Maharashtra, there was no point in continuing the alliance. A day after Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari invited the Shiv Sena to stake claim to…
SHIV SENA leader Arvind Sawant on Monday announced his resignation from the Union cabinet, saying there is no trust left and it would not be proper to continue as minister when a new government is being formed in Maharashtra. Addressing a press conference, Sawant accused the BJP of reneging on…
THE Shiv Sena on Monday was racing against time to cobble together an alliance to form a government in Maharashtra, with the Congress and the NCP mulling extending their support to the right-wing party. Amid a flurry of meetings in the national capital and in Mumbai, the NCP has said…
A LEAD counsel for the Muslim parties in the Ayodhya land dispute case has said the decision on seeking a review of the verdict would likely be taken in a meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Sunday. In a historic and unanimous verdict, a five-judge…
CITIES and towns across India are on a state of alert ahead of a crucial Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya tomorrow (9). More than 5,000 paramilitary force members and police have been deployed in the northern town of Ayodhya, where an ancient mosque was razed in 1992 by hardline Hindus…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday (8) inaugurate the integrated check post of the Kartarpur Corridor which will connect the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Punjab with Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur in Narowal district of Pakistan's Punjab province. The prime minister will inaugurate the check post at Dera Baba…
MULTI-layered security arrangements have been put in place in the temple town of Ayodhya with drones being used to monitor the situation ahead of the apex court judgment in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case. Be it the area near the Ramjanmabhoomi police station, "karyashala" of Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas or…
THE Arabian Sea saw the formation of four cyclones in 2019, a phenomenon recorded after 117 years, according to meteorologists. This year, the sea that touches the Indian subcontinent, West Asia and West Africa, has seen formation of Vayu, Hikka, Kyarr and Maha cyclones. The first one to develop into…
