New Delhi: Charanjit Singh Channi was sworn in as Punjab’s new Chief Minister today after Amarinder Singh’s dramatic weekend resignation just four months before an election in the state. Punjab’s first Dalit Sikh Chief Minister took charge with two deputies, both carefully chosen to fortify…
New Delhi: Former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar hit out at Harish Rawat, the party’s state-in-charge, this morning, questioning his statement in support of Navjot Singh Sidhu (and his leadership role ahead of next year’s election) hours before Charanjit Channi is sworn in as the new Chief…
The drama in the Punjab Congress is finally over. The Congress has elected a Dalit face as Chief Minister. Should it be called a “master stroke”, as is the tradition in mainstream media, or is it damage control? The party was undoubtedly in hot soup. Its tallest leader in the state was in a defiant mood and…
A leader of Hindu Mahasabha has been arrested in Mangaluru with his two associates, a day after he threatened Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai over the demolition of a temple, saying, “We didn’t spare Gandhiji, who are you?” Dharmendra, state general secretary of the outfit, made the remarks…
Stuck in Tahiti with no available flights, Paul Stratfold was running out of time to get back home to Australia and renew his residency visa. The Briton decided his best option was to sail 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) across the southern Pacific Ocean, a solo voyage that took almost a month. A professional sailor,…
Hyderabad: The Yuvajan Sramika Rythu (YSR) Congress, led by Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy, has swept the Andhra Pradesh local body polls, the results for which were announced on Sunday. As last reports came in, the party had won close to 90 per cent of the Mandal Parishads Territorial Constituencies (MPTCs)…
Paris: France on Friday recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia for consultations in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract, an unprecedented step that revealed the extent of French anger against its allies. President Emmanuel Macron ordered the recalling of the envoys…
Bengaluru: A two-year-old girl survived with the bodies of her five family members for three days after they allegedly died by suicide at their Bengaluru home. But another nine-month-old infant starved to death. The two-year-old was finally rescued on Friday and the shocking details of the deaths emerged as H…
New Delhi: India crossed 2.5 crore Covid vaccinations in a day for the first time on Friday as the government raced to deliver a record on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday. At 11:58 pm, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted to confirm the “historic” figure.. Earlier, the Prime…
Washington: A top general admitted the United States had made a “mistake” when it launched a drone strike against suspected ISIS terrorists in Kabul, killing 10 civilians including children instead during the frenzied final days of the US pullout from Afghanistan last month. The strike, a macabre coda…