BENGALURU: An Air Indian Express IX 1132 from Bengaluru to Kochi had a miraculous escape after one of its engines caught fire. All 179 passengers including six crew members and two infants on board were evacuated safely. The flight which took off from Terminal 2 of from Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) at 10.49 pm returned to Bengaluru shortly and had an emergency landing on the South Runway at 11.12 pm. According to a spokesperson of airport operator, Bangalore International Airport Limit

SC to hear PIL against three new criminal laws on Monday

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday announced the onset of Southwest monsoon, the lifeline of India's farm-based economy, over the Nicobar islands and South Andaman sea. The southwest monsoon season commences in June and lasts till September. The IMD announced the advance of Southwest Monsoon into some parts of Maldives & Comorin area and some parts of South Bay of Bengal, Nicobar Islands and South Andaman Sea. According to the IMD, the strength of Westerly winds in the lower tro

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court allowed five-day custodial interrogation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar in the Swati Maliwal assault case, sing the police remand was a ecessity in the matter. Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Goyal was hearing the application of Delhi Police which was represented by Additional Public Prosecutor Atul Srivastava. The police had sought seven day custody. It is alleged that Kumar, who is Kejriwal's personal assistant, assaulted AAP MP Swati Maliwal at

ASHOK NAGAR: An elderly Dalit couple has been allegedly beaten up and made to wear garlands of shoes in Madhya Pradesh's Ashok Nagar district, police said on Sunday. The couple's son had allegedly been involved in an eve-teasing incident, they said. A case has been registered against 10 persons who were at large in connection with the incident of thrashing the couple which took place on Friday in Kilora village under Mungaoli police station limits, an official said. The couple's son had been all

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday claimed the BJP has launched a campaign, Operation Jhaadu to crush the Aam Aadmi Party as the saffron party sees the AAP as a challenge. Addressing party workers and leaders ahead of the AAP's proposed protest march to the BJP headquarters here , he said there will be bigger challenges ahead and asked the cadre to be prepared to face them. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is worried about the rise of the AAP. The party has risen too fast. The

NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Sunday said that she wouldn't have to get embroiled in the current controversy had former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia been there. I wish they [AAP] had used this much force for Manish Sisodia ji. If he had been here, maybe this bad thing wouldn't have happened to me!, Maliwal conveyed through X. , 12 CCTV Phone format ? ! pic.twitter.com/kXAAMLgPcg Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) May 19, 2024 The parliamen

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday issued a challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, as he plans to march towards the BJP's headquarters in the capital on Sunday, daring them to send anyone you want to jail. This escalation in tensions between the two parties follows the arrest of Bibhav Kumar on Saturday in connection with the alleged assault on AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal at the Chief Ministers residence. Meanwhile, t

IMPHAL: One person was killed and two others were injured after unidentified assailants shot them at Naoremthong area in Manipur's Imphal West district, police said. The incident took place around 8 pm on Saturday outside their rented accommodation, a police officer said. The deceased has been identified as Shree Ram Hangsada (41) from Jharkhand, he said. The injured are undergoing treatment at RIMS Hospital in Imphal. Police have registered a case and started an investigation to ascertain the r

Former chief minister of Himachal Pradesh and leader of the Opposition Jai Ram Thakur believes that the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led Congress government in the state will survive only till parliamentary polls. It is very difficult for them to survive given the situation they (Congress) are in, he told Harpreet Bajwa in an interview. Excerpts: In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won all 4 seats in Himachal Pradesh but in the by-election, it lost the Mandi seat. How do you see the party perform

RAIPUR: The BJP has reached out to former Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh to campaign against its arch-rival candidate Kumari Selja at Sirsa Lok Sabha constituency in Haryana. Interestingly, most of these ex-Congress leaders have worked with former union minister Selja when she was the party in-charge in Chhattisgarh and now will campaign against her. The saffron party has roped-in at least a dozen leaders who deserted Congress and joined the BJP after the Assembly poll debacle in December last

NEW DELHI: As the campaign for the phase five of the Lok Sabha elections ended on Saturday evening, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra made her final pitch for Congress candidate Kishori Lal Sharma who is locked in a fierce battle against Union minister and BJPs incumbent MP Smriti Irani. With elections two days away, enthusiasm among the Congress workers was palpable as the cavalcade of the Congress general secretary reached Amethi to hold a roadshow along with Sharma. Priyanka has been camp

LUCKNOW: Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a 2-km road show in Amethi on Saturday as the Lok Sabha constituency, known to be the bastion of Gandhi family, has turned out to be a battle of prestige for the BJP and the Congress. Addressing the crowd in the roadshow, Shah refuted the Congress claim that Amethi and Rae Bareli were their family seats. In a democracy it is the people, not a family, who send the candidate to Parliament, he said questioning if any of the Gandhi family members turned up

NEW DELHI: A day after he was attacked outside the AAP office in New Usmanpur, Kanhaiya Kumar, the Congress candidate for the North East Delhi Lok Sabha seat accused the constituencys sitting MP Manoj Tiwari of being behind the attack on him. During a press conference on Saturday, Kumar said that Tiwari orchestrated the attack out of fear of losing the support of the constituencys residents. He alleged that Tiwari was spreading false rumours and circulating manipulated videos to undermine his ca

CHANDIGARH: At least nine people, including six women, were burnt alive and more than 15 injured when a moving bus carrying devotees from Punjab caught fire near Tauru in Haryanas Nuh district early on Saturday, police said. The incident occurred on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway around 2 am when around 60 people, all residents of Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana, were returning in the bus after visiting pilgrim towns of Ujjan and Mathura-Vrindavan, police said. Nine people, including six wom

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday tore into the Congress-AAP alliance in Delhi, saying the world is watching how one corrupt party is covering for another corrupt party. The apparent reference was to the slew of corruption charges hobbling the AAP government led by Arvind Kejriwal in the national capital. In his first rally in Delhi for the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, Modi alleged that the Congress would go to any extent to pursue vote bank politics. He pointed out that during the

ANANTNAG: A former BJP Sarpanch was killed, and a couple from Jaipur were injured in two separate incidents of firing by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian and Anantnag districts, respectively late on Saturday night, police said. According to Kashmir Zone Police, the deceased former Sarpanch was identified as Aijaz Ahmad. Police said that terrorists fired upon Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh at Heerpora in Shopian district. They said that the area was cordoned off. He was evacuated and taken to the ho

NEW DELHI: India on Saturday advised its students in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to stay indoors amidst reports of mob violence that erupted after some student groups got into an altercation. According to estimates, there are close to 8000 Indian students studying in Kyrgyzstan. We are in touch with our students. The situation is presently calm but students are advised to stay indoors for the moment and get in touch with the Embassy in case of any issue, said a statement released by the Indian Embassy

NEW DELHI: As the ongoing row between the West Bengal government and Governor C V Ananda Bose came knocking at its doors, the Supreme Court warned both the parties to resolve the issue relating to appointing VCs amicably between them, or else the court would have to intervene. Please try to resolve your (State Government VS Governor) differences, amicably, in appointing VCs, else, we will come in picture and appoint, a two-judge bench of the top court led by Justice Surya Kant and comprising Jus

NEW DELHI: Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra and Sir Philip Barton, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), met in London on May 17 for the annual UK-India Strategic Dialogue. Kwatra also met other senior leaders and officials including the UK Minister of State for Defence Procurement. The two reviewed he progress made on the UK-India 2030 Roadmap since the last Dialogue in January 2023 and looked ahead to the next phase of bilateral coope

LUCKNOW: In a last-minute push to BJP's poll campaign in the prestigious seats of Amethi and Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that he is confident that Rahul Gandhi is losing from Rae Bareli this time. Asking the people of Amethi to opt between PM Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, he accused the latter of fleeing to Wayanad after losing Amethi in 2019. Now Rahul Baba is back in Raebareli. I have been in Raebareli for three days and can say with co

NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has alerted traders, fruit handlers and Food Business Operators (FBOs) to strictly ensure compliance with the prohibition on calcium carbide for artificial ripening of fruits, particularly during the mango season. Calcium carbide, commonly used for ripening fruits like mangoes, releases acetylene gas, which contains harmful traces of arsenic and phosphorus. Recently, FSSAI seized 575 kg of mangoes worth Rs 72,000 from fruit stal

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday claimed the entire country is seething in anger against the BJP and will end its dictatorial rule on June 4, the counting day of the Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a street meeting in West Delhi's Najafgarh area, he claimed the BJP would soon arrest AAP leaders such as Raghav Chaddha, Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj to crush the opposition. The AAP national convener made the comments on the day his aide Bibhav Kumar was arrested in connection

NEW DELHI: The poll panel on Saturday said that the election-time seizures of inducements reached to Rs 8,889 crore that aimed to influence voters, as confiscation of narcotics and other contrabands amounted to 45 percent of the total seizure. The Election Commission of India (ECI) also revealed that over 4.24 lakh complaints were received from citizens on cVigil app in the last two months and 99.9 per cent of them have been disposed of. At 45 per cent, drugs and other contrabands constituted th

NEW DELHI: Indias biggest skill competition has drawn maximum participation from the southern states, with Tamil Nadu witnessing the highest number of competitors who are showcasing their expertise in areas as varied as traditional crafts to the latest technologies. From Tamil Nadu 86 participants - the highest from any state in India - are competing in the India Skills Competition 2024, followed by Karnataka with 61 competitors. This year, IndiaSkills is witnessing the participation of over 900

LUCKNOW: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday targeted the BJP over its slogan of winning more than 400 seats in the Lok Sabha polls, saying it indicated that the party was making a devious attempt to bring a new Constitution for the country. Accusing the BJP government at the Centre of being anti-farmer, he said PM Narendra Modi brought a constitution amendment bill in 2014 to weaken the land acquisition law that was brought in by the previous Congress-led dispensation. Farmers we

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party was planning to ban its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), after winning a third term in power. Speaking at his last rally here before the campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections ended in Maharashtra, Thackeray also said that the Election Commissioner who was acting like Modi's servant will be removed after the INDIA alliance government comes to power. The way they tried to

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat BJP has launched a unique campaign to attract voters from Uttar Pradesh. Thousands of migrant workers residing in Surat, Gujarat, are calling their relatives in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, urging them to vote for the BJP. During these conversations, they highlight the Gujarat model of development. As an incentive, participants in this effort will have the opportunity to meet Gujarat BJP president CR Patil for lunch or dinner. This election campaign strategy is

KOLKATA: Asserting that electors of the country will teach a lesson to the BJP in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday claimed that the term of the saffron party-led NDA government at the Centre will expire soon. Addressing a rally in Kultali in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district in support of Trinamool Congress candidate from Jaynagar Pratima Mandal, Banerjee blamed the BJP for making the lives of poor people miserable. A right lesson ha

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday that he and other AAP leaders would go to the BJP headquarters on March 19 so that the prime minister can send anyone he wants to jail. The BJP is saying they will send AAP MP Raghav Chadha and Delhi ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj to jail too, he claimed at a press briefing hours after his aide Bibhav Kumar was arrested in connection with the alleged assault on his party's parliamentarian Swati Maliwal. Kejriwal, who is als

GONDA: Karan Bhushan Singh, the BJP's Kaiserganj Lok Sabha candidate, brushes aside the sexual assault allegations levelled against his father Brij Bhushan Singh saying these are political and made up as he urges the people to bless him with their votes like they have always done to his family. Karan Bhushan, 33, has been attending an average of 10 small public meetings every day in different parts of the constituency. Apart from elderly and a handful of women, young men form a major chunk in th

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday deplored the BJP for esorting to violence and attacking its North East Delhi candidate Kanhaiya Kumar, saying this showed everyone in the saffron party was nervous in the face of a historic defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. Fearing defeat, the BJP MP from North East Delhi has now resorted to hooliganism. Remember, the Congress party is Gandhian, not Godse-wadi. Our identity is not of those who fear, but of those who fight for justice, Congress general secret

NEW DELHI: The Modi government's first-of-its-kind initiative to record the experiences of government employees has elicited enthusiastic responses. More than18000 government employees from across 96 departments and organizations have shared their 'in-service experiences' through the initiative known as 'Anubhav-Portal', started in 2015 by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension. The concept was to record the experiences of retired employees and officials and publish them after

PATNA: Former Union minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday voiced strong displeasure over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's charge that the Congress, if it came to power, will bulldoze the Ram temple at Ayodhya. Addressing a press conference at the Sadaqat Ashram, the state Congress headquarters, Khurshid also reminded Modi that he entire nation has accepted the temple that was built in accordance with a Supreme Court verdict. The Prime Minister should remember that the credit for the construction o

GOGHAT: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday claimed that the INDIA bloc will come to power in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and BJP will ot cross the 200 mark in the polls. She accused Congress, and CPI(M) of having entered into a nexus with BJP in the state to discredit the state government and asked the electorate not to vote for any non-TMC parties which will benefit the saffron camp. Addressing an election rally at Goghat under the Arambagh L

NEW DELHI: The extreme heat crippling large parts of northwest India will continue for another five days, with Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh predicted to bear the maximum impact. Swathes of north India stewed in brutal heat on Friday, with maximum temperatures soaring to a scorching 47.4 degrees Celsius in west Delhi's Najafgarh, the highest this season in the country so far. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday predicted severe heat wave over the plains of

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday asked why Narendra Modi has roken his promise of giving legal sanctity to a minimum support price for crops and why he prioritises his politics over the country's daughters, as the prime minister hits the campaign trail in Haryana. Referring to the protest by women wrestlers from Haryana, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh alleged that the prime minister did not take action against his party's MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is accused of molestation by the wome

DEHRADUN: Amidst the controversy surrounding the Uttarakhand High Court's order to shift from Nainital, lawyers have petitioned the Supreme Court to challenge the decision. Meanwhile, former Chief Minister and Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari requested the incumbent Chief Minister to intervene in the matter, supporting Kumaon lawyers who are opposing the High Court relocation issue. A special leave petition has been filed in the Supreme Court by lawyers hailing from various districts of Kumaon, in

MALEGAON: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday hit out at the Congress over its alleged proposal to introduce inheritance, and said Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's soul has crept into the grand old party. He said the inheritance tax is like the 'jizya' tax imposed by Aurangzeb. Addressing a rally in Malegaon town in Maharashtra's Nashik district, he said the BJP is contesting elections not merely for power but to build a developed India. There should be no doubt that Narendra Modi

After physical assault against Swati Maliwal by Kejriwal's personal secretary Bibhav Kumar, AAP has released a fresh CCTV footage of her in a bid to 'expose her.' In the fresh footage shared by AAP, the party Rajya Sabha MP could be seen engaged in an argument with the security personnel who escorted her out of the house, even as she was walking out of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence. The party shared the video clip on the platform X with a caption in Hindi reading, This video exposes

IMPHAL: A 30-year-old man was shot at in Manipur's Imphal West district on Saturday morning, police said. The incident happened near Khumbong primary health centre in the Patsoi police station area, they said. The man, identified as Laishram Kumarjit -- a designer by profession, was shot in his left calf, they added. He was rushed to a hospital in Imphal for treatment. The gunmen are yet to be identified, police said, stating that the motive behind the shooting is yet to be established.

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Saturday arrested Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's close aide Bibhav Kumar in connection with Swati Maliwal assault case. Kumar was apprehended from the residence of CM Kejriwal. Delhi Police had registered a case of molestation and attempt to culpable homicide against Kumar for physically assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP, Maliwal at the CM's residence on May 13. The police had lodged an FIR under sections 308 (Attempt to commit culpable homicide), 341 (wrongful restraint

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has restrained various entities from using actor Jackie Shroff's name, including sobriquets Jackie and Jaggu Dadda, voice and images for commercial purposes without permission. Justice Sanjeev Narula, in an interim order dated May 15, said the entities selling wallpapers, T-shirts and posters, etc. on e-commerce websites and operating an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot platform were prima facie acting in violation of the actor's personality and publicity righ

NEW DELHI: AAP leader Atishi on Saturday claimed party MP Swati Maliwal, who has accused Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar of assaulting her, is facing arrest in an illegal recruitment case and she was lackmailed by the BJP to become part of the conspiracy against the Chief Minister. Talking to PTI-Video, Atishi, who is also a cabinet minister in the Delhi government, alleged that Maliwal went to the chief minister's official residence on Monday without an appointment. Fight gets nasty as Mal

NEW DELHI: India on Saturday asked its students in Bishkek to stay indoors after the Kyrgyz capital city reported fights between some locals and foreigners. The Indian embassy in the Central Asian country said it is in touch with the Indian students and the situation is calm now. The mission asked Indian students in the city to stay indoors. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar advised the Indian students to stay in regular touch with the Indian embassy. Monitoring the welfare of Indian studen

GURUGRAM: At least nine people were burnt alive and 15 injured when a moving bus caught fire near Tauru in Haryana's Nuh district in the early hours of Saturday, police said. The incident occurred around 2 am on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway. The bus was carrying around 60 people, all residents of Punjab's Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana, who were returning from pilgrim towns of Mathura and Vrindavan. All of them are relatives, police said. Nine people -- six women and three men -- were kil

NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast severe heatwave over plains of northwest, Bihar, east and central India in the next five days. The forecast indicates that northwestern India, including the National Capital Territory of Delhi, will experience a period of intense heat for five days. It will include unusually warm night time temperatures, which can intensify the risk of heat-related illness and death, IMD said in its forecast on Thursday. In its advisory, the weath

RANCHI: For the first time in Hazaribagh Lok Sabha seat, two candidates of backward caste (OBC) have locked horns against each other making the contest interesting besides making it unpredictable also. Hazaribagh LS seat, a BJP stronghold with former Union Ministers Yashwant Sinha and his son Jayant Sinha winning the seat on BJP ticket for the last three terms, has become difficult for the party this time as the contest is primarily between the two backward (OBC) candidates Hazaribagh (Sadar) M

PATNA: The five Bihar seats going to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha polls on May 20 will witness new candidates on four seats, and a turncoat trying his luck from the remaining one. In Hajipur (SC) and Saran, RJD chief Lalu Prasads daughter Rohini Acharya and Ram Vilas Paswans son Chirag Paswan face the challenges of protecting their fathers pocket boroughs, respectively. Altogether 80 candidates, including 35 Independents, are in the fray, with three contestants being doctors. In high-pr

BHOPAL: Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world Miguel de Cerventes. Out of all the scars, the one in the head can be the scariest. Merciless and invisible, they can flirt and play peek-a-boo with destiny; it can torment, tear one apart or tease with your emotions. It can drive one to desperation too. There is no discrimination between a king and a pauper nor a champion and an upstart too. Shooter Anjum Moudgil reflected on those harrowing times whe