New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) General Dhiraj Seth took over as the next Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), succeeding General Upendra Dwivedi upon his retirement on Tuesday.
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) A political row erupted on Tuesday after Uttar Pradesh Congress President, Ajay Rai, was placed under house arrest in Ayodhya ahead of his proposed visit to the Ram Mandir, with the BJP and Congress exchanging sharp remarks over the development.
Lucknow, June 30 (IANS) Samajwadi Party MP Rajeev Rai on Tuesday took potshots at the Congress' new Uttar Pradesh in-charge, Rajendra Pal Gautam, over his seat-sharing statement, accusing him of attempting to "establish his own identity and remain in the news" as "no one knew him earlier".
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Congress General Secretary and MP, K.C. Venugopal, on Tuesday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla requesting that a privilege motion be taken up against Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for allegedly misleading the House on the casualties sustained by the Indian Armed Forces during 'Operation Sindoor'.
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) A 24-year-old woman has accused a man of sexually harassing her inside a moving car in East Delhi’s Mandawali area.
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The Centre has disbursed approximately Rs 1 lakh crore under the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme 5.0 (ECLGS) to enable MSMEs and other industries to tide over the liquidity crunch during the West Asia crisis, MSME Secretary Bharat Khera said on Tuesday.
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) A diversion away from the developments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) is what Pakistan is in desperate need of. The Indian agencies now warn that to divert attention the ISI would attempt some misadventure during the Amarnath Yatra that is scheduled to commence on July 3.
Sambhal (Uttar Pradesh), June 30 (IANS) A major land scam involving government-owned Gram Samaj land worth crores of rupees has allegedly surfaced in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district, with police registering an FIR against 32 people, including former Municipal Council officials, employees, public representatives and private individuals, officials said.
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a court-monitored probe into the alleged 'fake' encounter killing of Bharat Bhushan Tiwari in Bihar's Bhojpur district and raising concerns over the growing trend of extra-judicial killings and "half encounters".
Mumbai, June 30 (IANS) In a massive political jolt to Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT), the party’s Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) Sachin Ahir on Tuesday switched sides to join Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena.
