Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has promised to set up a special information technology (IT) park for Muslim youth at Pahadishareef near Hyderabad, if the BRS is voted back to office. Addressing a rally at Maheshwaram on Thursday, he said Congress had always treated Muslims only as a vote bank and had never worked...
Read MoreBharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), which is in office in poll-bound Telangana, received contributions worth Rs 529 crore via the electoral bonds route in 2022-23, while DMK’s and YSR Congress Party’s inflows from bonds totalled Rs 185 crore and Rs 52 crore respectively in the same period. As per contribution reports of 23 regional parties...
Read MoreLt Gen Dwivedi indicated presence of retired Pakistani soldiers among terrorists in J&K. The recent Rajouri encounter resulted in the death of 5 army personnel and a top Lashkar-e-Toiba operative. The encounter also revealed the killings of 10 civilians in Rajouri and attacks on security forces at Kandi. The two terrorists killed in the...
Read MoreAn army dog, Domino, has been awarded a “commendation card” and feted as the “silent warrior” for helping soldiers trace the hideout of the terrorists in Rajouri’s Bajimal encounter. According to army officials, the dog helped the troops reach the location by sniffing one of the terrorist’s blood trails in the forested Kalakote area...
Read MoreWith the assembly polls less than a week away, the BRS government received a shot in the arm on Friday with the Election Commission approving the disbursement of Rythu Bandhu amounts to farmers in Telangana. Armed with ECI’s nod, the state government will start disbursing the scheme’s money in a day or two by...
Read MoreThree Kuki-Zo legislators of conflict-scarred Manipur, two of them from BJP, have been replaced as chairpersons of separate assembly committees without assigning any reason. One of the new appointees is an MLA of the Naga People’s Front. The assembly secretariat notified the appointments by speaker Thokchom Satyabrata Singh on Wednesday. According to Rule 236A...
Read MoreThe Punjab and Haryana HC has issued notice to the central government on a petition filed by a former woman officer of the Indian Army seeking directions that the term “ex-serviceman” be replaced by gender-neutral and gender-inclusive terms such as “ex-service members” or “ex-service personnel”, reports Ajay Sura. Her main contention is that she...
Read MorePrime Minister Narendra Modi’s reference to “injustice” meted out to Gujjar community leaders, the late Rajesh Pilot and his son Sachin Pilot, by the Congress leadership has come at a time when BJP is expecting decisive gains from the Gujjardominated eastern Rajasthan region, where the party had suffered a complete washout in the 2018...
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