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NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a fiery attack on opposition for defeating the proposed amendments to “women’s reservation law,” as he accused them of committing “bhrun hatya” (foeticide) in Parliament by scuttling his govt’s “honest attempts” for rollout of 33% quota for women by 2029 and increase in the Lok Sabha seats...

CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday dared BJP to “face her directly” after I-T raids at the homes of her chief proposer in Bhowanipore, Miraj Shah, and Rashbehari TMC nominee, Debasish Kumar. She alleged that EC had deployed officers with BJP links to selectively raid and arrest TMC activists. At a...

COIMBATORE: PM Narendra Modion Saturday said a new chapter is being written in the politics of Tamil Nadu, and people are giving a clear message that “NDA is in and DMK is out”. At a poll rally in Coimbatore, Modi said many Tamil women from ordinary families would have become MPs and MLAs if the...

File photo CHENNAI: At India’s southern tip, Kanyakumari stands apart in elections. Unlike other parts of Tamil Nadu where the Dravidian majors fight it out, two national parties are at the forefront of the poll battle. While Congress pitches the secular plank, BJP strives for Hindu unity, and TVK plays the alternative card. BJP is...

Accused Ayaan Ahmed By: Anil JadhavAMRAVATI/NAGPUR: In a big breakthrough in the sensational Amravati sexual abuse scandal, a 15-year-old survivor from Nagpur mustered the courage to break social taboo and travelled 250km to Paratwada police station in Amravati district on Saturday and recorded her statement before the special investigation team (SIT).Seven other identified survivors are...

Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi (PTI image) NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Saturday directed Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi to file written submissions in a criminal revision petition alleging fraudulent inclusion of her name in electoral rolls prior to acquiring Indian citizenship, listing the matter for May 16. During the hearing, the counsel for...

Strait of Hormuz NEW DELHI: Amid firing by Iranian gunboats that caused two Indian-flagged tankers to turn back from Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, the tenth Indian-flagged vessel crossed the strait. Desh Garima, carrying crude oil, was on its way to Mumbai port. Iran had been sporadically allowing Indian vessels to sail through since it...

LUCKNOW: The UP Police and the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) arrested a key accused of links with a suspected ISIS-linked module.The accused, identified as Majul, a resident of Sauftpur village under Nangal police station in Bijnor, was detained by airport authorities upon arrival from South Africa and handed over to local police on Apr 18.He had...

Fintech startup Belo’s CTO Pato Molina recently shared how Anthropic shut down the Claude account of his entire company after what it claimed to be a policy breach. Molina shared the same in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Tagging Claude, tech CTO wrote”@claudeai you took down our entire organization with 60+ accounts belonging to...

NEW DELHI/PUNE: IAF ordered Saturday a court of inquiry into a hard landing by a Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jet in Pune, as flight operations at the civil-military airport resumed after an overnight shutdown of nearly 10 hours. IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Jaideep Singh confirmed the probe. He also said: “Work was done at a war...