Mulayam elected SP chief for ninth consecutive term
LUCKNOW: Veteran politician Mulayam Singh Yadav was re-elected unopposed national president of Samajwadi Party for a record ninth consecutive term on the inaugural day of the party’s national convention that began at Janeshwar Misra Park in Gomtinagar on Wednesday morning. Though... read more »
LoC tension live: Jaitley says India will make Pakistan’s adventurism...
Defence minister Arun Jaitley is out of hospital and is all guns blazing against Pakistan. In comments to the media, his first official interaction since being discharged from AIIMS, Jaitley decried ‘unprovoked’ firing from Pakistan along the Line of Control, and said that Indian forces... read more »
Veteran journalist MV Kamath dies at 93
MANIPAL: Former chairman of Prasar Bharati and veteran journalist Madhav Vittal Kamath, popularly kmown as MV Kamath, died at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal on Thursday. He was 93. Kamath was the Washington correspondent of the Times of India from 1969 to 1978 and was also the editor of Illustrated... read more »
CBI says no foul play in Gopinath Munde’s death
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has reportedly ruled out any foul play in the death of former Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde. The CBI was given the responsibility of probing the reasons behind the death of Munde following demands made by a number of senior BJP leaders who... read more »
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