Category: Events

Suspense continues over who will become Mumbai’s next mayor even as the BJP–Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena alliance has secured a clear majority in the 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation MUMBAI: Suspense continues over who will become Mumbai’s next mayor even as the BJP–Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena alliance has secured a clear majority in the 227-member Brihanmumbai...

Photo credit: AP Thousands of Greenlanders marched through snow- and ice-covered streets on Saturday in what is being described as the largest coordinated protests the Arctic island has seen. The mass rally was aimed at rejecting renewed pressure from US President Donald Trump to take control of the territory and voicing support for Greenland’s self-rule.In...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126636775,imgsize-1628762,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72/cm-mamata-banerjee-urges-cji-to-save-democracy-stop-agencies-from-defaming-citizens.jpg" alt="‘You are guardians of Constitution’: CM Mamata Banerjee urges CJI to save democracy, stop agencies from defaming citizens" title=" CM Mamata Banerjee urges CJI to save democracy, stop agencies from defaming citizens ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> CM Mamata Banerjee urges CJI to save democracy, stop agencies from defaming citizens JALPAIGURI/KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee...

BHOPAL: Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya caused outrage with his remarks on Friday that on seeing a beautiful woman “one can get distracted and rape may follow”. The MLA had then continued in the same appalling manner, saying that women from the SC, ST and OBC communities are “not beautiful” but were raped because of...

HYDERABAD: Drawing a firm political line, AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi Saturday categorically ruled out any alliance with the BJP or NDA, asserting that the party’s ideological position was non-negotiable.Seeking to contain damage caused by a local episode in Maharashtra, Owaisi said he had directed five AIMIM corporators in Akot nagar parishad to...

Cricket accessories (AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: A remarkable piece of cricketing history unfolded in the ongoing Presidents Trophy as Pakistan TV (PTV) shattered a 232-year-old record by registering the lowest successful run defence ever seen in first-class cricket.In an extraordinary finish, PTV defended a target of just 40 runs against Sui Northern Gas, winning the...

Dr Shaheen Shahid, one of the Al-Falah University doctors arrested for the Delhi terror plot, had applied for a passport and was, according to investigators. NEW DELHI: Red Fort suicide bomber Dr Umar Nabi and two of his colleagues at Al-Falah University of Faridabad, Dr Muzammil and Dr Shaheen, were among several faculty and staff...

PUNE: The State Election Commission (SEC) will return to traditional bottled indelible ink for the upcoming zilla parishad and panchayat samiti elections on Feb 5, following controversy over marker pens used in recent municipal corporation polls, which allegedly left erasable marks, sparking concerns of bogus voting.“We will use indelible ink bottles instead of marker pens...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126634247,imgsize-721811,width-400,resizemode-4/article-35.jpg" alt="In poll-bound Bengal, PM Modi blames demographic imbalance for violence" title=" PM Modi ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> KOLKATA/MALDA: PM Narendra Modi brought up the issue of recurring violence in Bengal’s Murshidabad during his rally in neighbouring Malda district Saturday, specifying demographic imbalance and infiltration as the underlying causes.Murshidabad’s Beldanga continued to see vandalism as...

NOIDA: A 27-year-old software engineer drowned after his SUV went through a damaged boundary wall and plunged into a flooded pit dug for a commercial project in Sector 150 in the city around Friday midnight. Yuvraj Mehta, who did not know how to swim, tried to stay afloat – getting out of his Grand Vitara...