After CM Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot will meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi in Delhi today to discuss political developments in Rajasthan amid speculation of a cabinet reshuffle in the state. Sachin Pilot will also discuss the party strategy for UP polls with Sonia Gandhi. The meeting is at 12 pm. Sachin Pilot told…
The war of words over implementation of the Mekedatu project across the Cauvery river is refusing to stop. After Congress accused the BJP government of going slow and lacking intent to implement this project, CM Basavaraj Bommai questioned them in a statement saying: “Instead of implementing the project, what did…
Acourt sent Kiran Gosavi to 14-day judicial custody on Tuesday in connection with a 2018 cheating case. Kiran Gosavi is also an independent witness of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in the Mumbai cruise drugs case. Earlier, a court had extended his police custody by three days on November 5. He was arrested in the…
Poor nations are pressuring their wealthy counterparts at the U.N. climate summit to pay up for the mounting damage being caused by global warming, pointing to increasing powerful storms, cyclones, droughts and floods afflicting their people. The campaign being waged at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland…
The Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing arrested a man for allegedly duping Eldeco Group of Companies of Rs 13.65 crore. The accused, a resident of Shreshtha Vihar, has been identified as Shubham Saxena. A complaint by Eldeco Group of Companies levelled allegations of siphoning/embezzlement of funds against…
As travelling via the Kartarpur corridor remains suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the issue of its reopening is being used as a tool by politicians to woo voters ahead of Punjab Assembly Polls 2022. Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor, which was closed on March 16, 2020,…
The Congress on Tuesday accused the Modi government of conducting an operation to “cover-up” corruption in the Rafale fighter jet deal and asked why it did not initiate an investigation into the role of a middleman despite recovering incriminating documents from him. Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera also…
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has launched a perfume to attract voters to the party in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Branded as ‘Samajwadi Attar’, and bottled in red and green glass, the perfume has been made from 22 natural scents. “The scent will have its magic in 2022…
Exposure to high-particulate-matter air pollution may significantly increase the risk of depression in healthy people who have a genetic predisposition for the disorder, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published on Monday in the journal PNAS, combined scientific data on air pollution,…
ACanadian woman in her 70s could be the first patient to be ever diagnosed as suffering from ‘climate change’ as doctors blame her health condition on the deadly heatwaves earlier this year. Dr Kyle Merritt of Kootenay Lake Hospital, who diagnosed the patient, told Times Colonist about the aggravated toll…