BJP workers from Kolkata and Howrah began marching towards Nabanna to protest the “worsening” law and order in the state. Police personnel resorted to lathi-charge and used tear gas and water cannons on the BJP workers at Santragachi in Howrah district, causing injuries to BJP state vice-president Raju Banerjee and MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato. The law enforcers also resorted to baton-charge in the Hastings area in Kolkata. Four major rallies, two each from Kolkata and Howrah, will move towards Nabanna in Shibpur in Howrah district, BJP sources said. The ruling Trinamool Congress government in the state on Wednesday denied permission…
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The Indian Air Force has demonstrated its resolve, operational capability and willpower to effectively engage with the adversary when the need arises, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria said on Thursday, referring to his force’s combat readiness in eastern Ladakh. In an address during the occasion of 88th Air Force Day, the Chief of Air Staff also commended the air force personnel for their “prompt response” in the recent standoff on the northern frontiers and talked about the force’s successful deployment of combat assets at short notice along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Indian and Chinese troops have been engaged…
The Hathras case has been an issue of media frenzy and political mudslinging for over a week now. The victim, a 19-year-old girl had succumbed to injuries in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital on 29 September. Two leaked audiotapes had revealed how the victim’s family was being ‘tutored’ by some mainstream media journalists and other elements as to what to say and how to behave. The UP government had also filed cases and started an investigation into plans to stir large scale caste-violence in the area over the victim’s death. Some arrests have been made, and yesterday, a media expose´ had revealed…
The verdict of a Supreme Court bench, which held that the prolonged sit-in by Muslim protesters at Shaheen Bagh earlier this year was unacceptable, should come as no surprise to anyone who knows the law. Only agenda-driven intellectuals can afford to pretend that long-term blockade of public spaces is an acceptable form of democratic protest. The verdict is thus a slap in the face of the Lutyens elite, who were busy trying to paint the protests as peaceful, when all kinds of incendiary speeches were made on its platform. In a judgement yesterday (7 October), a three-judge bench headed by…
Ever watched a rocket piercing through the Earth’s atmosphere and then illuminating amid a dark sky? A viral video claims to show the journey of a rocket after launching from Earth. It further claimes that the launch is exactly how it “seen by the International Space Station”. The minute-long clip shows a rocket — the tiny object in the video — taking off from the earth’s surface and then crossing the earth’s atmosphere. The fiery, beaming object then undergoes its first stage separation and the “second stage boosters firing up”. The rocket, eventually, vanished into the dead of night. At…
SS Rajamouli’s RRR is back in action and the filmmaker shared a glimpse of the same as they resumed shooting after almost seven months. While the lead cast of Ram Charan and Jr NTR are back on sets in Hyderabad’s Ramoji film city where the pre-Independence era is recreated, a few other cast members are yet to join. One of them is lead actress Alia Bhatt who will be joining the team in the first week of November, reported Mumbai Mirror. Alia is currently busy shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi in Mumbai. Apart from getting back to the…
Forests Minister Dindigul C. Srinivasan, who is a senior AIADMK leader, on Wednesday said the party backed Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami as its face for the 2021 Assembly election. Asked about the confusion over the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate, Mr. Srinivasan said the party backed Mr. Palaniswami. “Mediapersons should wait till October 7, when both the leaders [Mr. Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam] will jointly announce the candidate,” he added. He described the “tussle” between Mr. Palaniswami and Mr. Panneerselvam at the party’s recent executive council meeting as an internal affair. The AIADMK, he felt, would win…
After three members of a Tamil-origin family were found dead in their flat in west London, the Scotland Yard has launched a murder investigation. Officers from the Metropolitan Police forced entry into a block of flats in Brentford on Tuesday after concerns were raised for the well-being of Poorna Kaameshwari Sivaraj. They found the body of the 36-year-old woman and her three-year-old son, Kailash Kuha Raj. Her husband, Kuha Raj Sithamparanathan, was found with severe stab injuries and died at the scene soon after. The police believe the 42-year-old injured himself when officials entered the property. While the police are…
India recorded 72,049 new cases of coronavirus, almost 10,000 more than Monday’s one-day cases, and 986 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking India’s COVID-19 tally past the 67-lakh mark, shows the Health Ministry data released this morning. A total of 82,203 people also successfully fought off the viral disease in the last 24 hours, bringing down the overall active cases to around 13 per cent of the total caseload. According to the government figures, total Covid cases in India now stand at 67,57,131, including 9,07,883 active cases, 57,44,693 recoveries and 1,04,555 deaths. The highest number of cases in the…
After the recent inauguration of the Atal Tunnel, three road accidents occurred inside the tunnel within 72 hours. This led to elevating the Kullu district administration’s concerns for safety. Taking a leave out of some of the best examples of underground tunnels in countries like USA, Poland and France, Himachal Pradesh has decided to implement fool-proof security and traffic management at the newly inaugurated Atal Rohtang Tunnel. Aimed to provide all weather and round-the-year connectivity to the people of Lahaul-Spiti, the Tunnel’s importance for mobility of the Indian army to Leh-Ladakh region has raised greater concerns about its 24×7 safety…