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KOLKATA: A 48-year-old YouTuber from Bengal with almost 4.3 million followers and his teenage son were arrested in North 24 Parganas district’s Haroa on Sunday for allegedly raping a 15-year- old girl after luring her with the promise of featuring her in comedy and dance reels. The survivor’s father is a cop attached to Kolkata…
Northern Army commander reviews operational preps in J&K’s Rajouri JAMMU: Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Pratik Sharma visited the forward areas of the border district of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday and reviewed the operational preparedness of the troops deployed there.His visit comes in the wake of a brief exchange of firing between…
NEW DELHI: The Centre has made it clear that it has no plan to raise the income ceiling for ‘creamy layer’ for OBC reservations, though the last revision took place eight years ago and is now twice overdue. There is at present an annual income bar of Rs 8 lakh for the purpose. An OBC…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi was among the leaders of more than 20 countries who received an invitation from US President Donald Trump and Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for the Gaza peace summit that both leaders will co-chair on Monday in the resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh. According to official sources,MoS (MEA) Kirti V…
Pakistan fumes as Taliban back India’s sovereignty over J&K NEW DELHI: Taliban have backed India’s sovereignty over J&K, drawing a blistering response from Pakistan amid its already-tense relationship with Afghanistan that has been exacerbated by heavy border clashes in the past few days. Despite outrage in Pakistan, Taliban officials pointed to the fact that India…
PATNA: Barely five days left for the close of nominations for the first phase of Bihar assembly polls, a seat-sharing deal continued to elude the opposition INDIA bloc on Sunday as RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav reached New Delhi in connection with a case of alleged irregularities in the award of…
NEW DELHI: An equal share for BJP and JD(U) — 101 seats each — and a generous 29 for Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) are the highlights of the seat-sharing agreement among NDA partners announced Sunday for Bihar assembly elections. The rest 12 out of 243 seats have been equally split among Union minister…
Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Tariq Hamid Karra SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Tariq Hamid Karra on Sunday said his party would not contest the October 24 Rajya Sabha elections to four seats in the Union territory, accusing alliance partner National Conference (NC) of refusing it a “safe seat”.Addressing reporters after a party meeting…
SRINAGAR: Accused of promoting “land jihad” through her proposed land regularisation bill, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti struck back Sunday — charging BJP with “embracing the Taliban” while allegedly branding Indian Muslims as extremists.“In the garb of accusing people of waging ‘jihad’, Muslims were lynched and demonised. Yet today, this government salutes the Taliban,” she told…
‘The Pearl of the Indian Ocean’, Sri Lanka is all about historic cities, old temples and gorgeous beaches. If you plan carefully and much-in-advance, you can easily plan a 6-day trip which can be done under INR 80,000 without any stress. Sri Lanka’s new $20 Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) makes it even easier for Indian…
