Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar meet over breakfast BENGALURU: The breakfast meeting between chief minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar appears to have offered a temporary breather in the ongoing Karnataka Congress leadership tussle, giving the party high command some breathing space to decide the next move.Party insiders indicated that Siddaramaiah has personally urged Shivakumar to take...
DEHRADUN/NAINITAL: Three persons including a cleric associated with a local mosque in Haldwani’s Banphoolpura area in Nainital district were detained by a team led by central agencies probing the Delhi blast case for their alleged links with main accused, Umar-un-Nabi.“The team, which came from Delhi, was accompanied by local police units. The investigators of the...
MEERUT: While “non-performing” booth level officers (BLOs) are facing FIRs across several districts in UP, intensifying pressure during an already demanding voter-list revision drive, several administrations are simultaneously rolling out incentives to keep their morale afloat with the Dec 4 deadline for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise fast approaching.In Pilibhit, jungle safaris, free family lunches...
file photo NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Saturday doubled the remuneration for Booth Level Officers (BLOs) from Rs 6,000 to Rs 12,000 per election cycle. The decision also includes an increase in pay for BLO supervisors, whose remuneration has been raised from Rs 12,000 to Rs 18,000.“The electoral roll machinery, consisting of Electoral Registration...
Image used for representative purposes NEW DELHI: Airlines across nation are rushing to complete emergency software upgrades on more than 350 Airbus A320-family aircraft after a rare global safety directive warned that intense solar radiation could corrupt flight-control data and trigger sudden, uncommanded aircraft movements.The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) ordered immediate compliance on...
Tejashwi Yadav NEW DELHI: The Mahagathbandhan on Saturday unanimously elected Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav as the opposition coalition’s leader in the Bihar assembly, a decision taken at the alliance’s first meeting since its drubbing in the recent state polls. The meeting was convened by Yadav ahead of the five-day assembly session beginning...
ANI file photo NEW DELHI: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court has convicted two additional accused in the Al-Qaeda conspiracy case, sentencing them to 20 months in prison. The verdict follows last month’s ruling in which another individual was jailed and fined for involvement in the same terror plot linked to the banned organisation.Mohd....
Cheteshwar Pujara and brother-in-law Jeet Pabari Jeet Pabari, a 30-year-old businessman and brother-in-law of Indian cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara, was found dead at his residence near Kalavad Road in Rajkot on Wednesday.Pabari allegedly died by suicide at his home “Krishna Sindhu”, where he was found hanging from an iron hook on the window of his first-floor...
Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva shakes welcomes former Aam Aadmi Party MLA Rajesh Gupta to the BJP, in New Delhi NEW DELHI: Former two-time Wazirpur MLA Rajesh Gupta joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, quitting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on the eve of bypolls in the AAP-run Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD)....
Faf du Plessis has pulled out of the IPL auction ahead of the 2026 season. (Photo by Pankaj Nangia/Getty Images) Former South Africa captain and long-time IPL stalwart Faf du Plessis has confirmed he will not enter his name in the upcoming IPL auction, choosing instead to participate in the Pakistan Super League. The announcement...
