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Pawan Khera should surrender in Guwahati, says Himanta Biswa Sarma

Himanta Biswa Sarma Guwahati: After Supreme Court refused to extend the transit anticipatory bail protection for Congress neta Pawan Khera, granted to him by the Telangana HC, following an FIR filed in Assam, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Read More

TIPRA Motha sweeps Tripura tribal council elections

TIPRA Motha (PTI image) Agartala: TIPRA Motha secured a resounding victory in Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC) elections, winning 24 of 28 seats in the results announced Friday for the April 12 polls. Read More

SC rejects Pawan Khera’s plea for protection against arrest

Pawan Khera New Delhi: Supreme Court on Friday refused Congress neta Pawan Khera’s plea for interim protection from arrest till Tuesday and asked him to seek anticipatory bail from the court in Assam, where an FIR against him has b Read More

HC junks EC decision to appoint assistant professors as presiding officers

Calcutta HC Kolkata: Calcutta HC Friday quashed the Election Commission’s move to requisition assistant professors of state colleges for the duty of presiding officers at polling stations in Bengal, pulling up the poll panel for no Read More

Haringhata’s TMC councillor arrested

. Kalyani: A Trinamool Congress councillor was arrested in West Bengal’s Nadia district Friday. Rajib Dalal, who represents Ward 17 and is the first-ever chairman of Haringhata Municipality, was picked up from his residence. Read More

Tamil Nadu polls: Sasikala, Ramadoss may play spoilsport for AIADMK

Sasikala Chennai: Two weeks ago, in Madurai’s Tirupparankundram constituency, V K Sasikala, the confidante of former Tamil Nadu chief minister late J Jayalalithaa, signalled a clear mission for the April 23 assembly election: wooing Read More

Warm reception for lottery baron’s wife giving DMK jitters

Leema Rose Martin (ANI image) Trichy: The narrow rural road to V Thuraiyur, a remote hamlet 15km north of Lalgudi, an agrarian pocket in central Tamil Nadu, is packed with villagers on either side as the campaign vehicle drives thro Read More

‘Each deity has peculiar rituals’: Sabarimala priest tells Supreme Court

Supreme Court New Delhi: The main priest of Sabarimala Ayyappa temple, whose custom of barring entry of menstruating women was struck down in 2018, on Friday told Supreme Court that the rights and wrongs of modes of idol worship, w Read More

India joins Hormuz meet, welcomes Lebanon ceasefire

MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal New Delhi: Govt has welcomed the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire saying that any step that moves in the direction of peace is welcomed by India. Read More

Government: Sheikh Hasina extradition plea under review

Sheikh Hasina NEW DELHI: After Bangladesh foreign minister Khalilur Rahman raised the issue of Sheikh Hasina’s extradition during his visit to India last week, India govt reiterated Friday that the request is being examined as part Read More

India, China hold 1st bilateral SCO talks after Ladakh thaw

PM Modi with Xi Jinping (PTI image) New Delhi: Amid efforts to ramp up bilateral cooperation, which followed the recent improvement in ties, India and China held their first Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) bilateral consulta Read More

I-T raids on Mamata’s proposer & TMC pick raise West Bengal poll heat

. Kolkata: Income tax officials on Friday raided Mamata Banerjee’s poll nomination proposer, Miraj Shah, and TMC candidate Debashis Kumar, prompting the Bengal CM to call BJP “spineless cowards”. Read More