In this issue

March 12, 2023

Kavitha grilled by ED for about 9 hrs

Told to reappear on Thursday for further questioning

1 min

Vote from home for 80+ in K'taka polls

IN a first, 12.15 lakh people above 80 years of age and 5.5 lakh persons with disabilities (PwD) in Karnataka can choose to exercise their franchise from the comfort of their homes in the Assembly polls in which are due in May.

1 min

ED finds ₹600 crore proceeds of crime in land-for-jobs scam involving Lalu

THE Enforcement Directorate on Saturday revealed its initial estimate of the alleged proceeds of crime from the landfor-job scam involving RJD boss Lalu Yadav was ? ₹600 crore, a day after it raided 24 premises of the family and his aides in search of the money trail.

2 mins

Juvenile among 3 detained for harassing woman on Holi

THREE people, including a juvenile, were apprehended for allegedly harassing and groping a Japanese woman on Holi in the Paharganj area of Delhi, police said on Saturday.

1 min

Water plants in miserable state: L-G

LIEUTENANT Governor V K Saxena has written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, flagging the “miserable hygiene and sanitary conditions” at the Wazirabad Water Treatment Plant which supplies drinking water to large parts of the national capital.

1 min

Students take tractors, autos to reach exam centre

ABOUT 400 second-year pre-university students from the flood-affected areas in Ron taluk of Gadag district are finding it difficult in reaching their examination centre, which is around 60 km from their villages. The flood-hit villages lack bus services.

1 min

Shah to sound BJP poll bugle in Kerala today

UNION Home Minister Amit Shah will set the ball rolling on the BJP's grand plan for the 2024 Lok Sabha election in the state.

1 min

Big loss to Congress in Karnataka as state working president passes away

KPCC working president and former Chamarajanagar MP R Dhruvanarayan died after suffering a massive heart attack at his residence here on Saturday morning. Dhruvanarayan was a two-time MP and two-time MLA from Santhemarahalli and Kollegal assembly constituencies.

1 min

SUNAK BETS ON ISLAMIC SCARE VOTE

AT last, the Empire strikes back. Britain’s current Captain Kirk— Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who could be easily mistaken for a Bengali bhadralok or a Gujarati barrister of the 1900s—is betting on ‘Agli Baar, Sunak sarkar” by policing its flawed immigration policy. Xenophobia is the first refuge of the punitive patriot: to defend the British way of life, Sunak has introduced legislation to ban and deport the “new boat people”.

4 mins

11 states fall short of breastfeeding targets: Govt

MOST Indian states have been able to achieve 90 per cent in initiating newborn breastfeeding practices within one hour of birth, but 11 states and Union territories, including Telangana, are far behind in meeting this goal, according to the government data.

1 min

Sibal lays down agenda of his new platform, takes a swipe at Centre

TRAINING his guns on the Centre, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Saturday accused the BJP-led government of misusing probe agencies.

1 min

Bilawal rues Pakistan unable to bring Kashmir issue to centre of UN agenda

PAKISTAN’S Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has admitted that Islamabad has failed to highlight Kashmir issue or bring it to the centre of UN agenda because of India’s diplomacy.

1 min

Allahabad HC: Mukhtar Ansari's gang most dreaded in India

WHILE rejecting the bail application of one Ramu Mallah, an accomplice of jailed gangsterturned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, the Allahabad High Court observed that Mukhtar Ansari’s was the most dreaded gang of India. Ramu Mallah is an accused of a murder case of Mau district, from where Mukhtar had been contesting elections.

2 mins

Forest dept team under attack by land mafia in MP's Burhanpur

AT least 13 forest department personnel and villagers were injured, two struck with arrows, when a state forest department team was attacked by those indulging in illegal felling of trees in the forests in Nepanagar area of Burhanpur district in south western Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.

1 min

Pulwama sparks free-for-all in Jaipur

BJP supports protests by widows of ’19 attack martyrs and their demand for govt jobs

2 mins

Punjab potato farmers demand subsidy, export to Pak to cover costs

It is just not onions that are being sold around ₹3 per kg in Maharashtra, the prices of potatos have also spiraled down in Punjab. The rate of table potatoes has crashed between 60 to 75 per cent this year as the farmers are selling it for around ₹4 per kg against the wholesale price of ₹10 to 12 per kg last year coupled with no demand from other states.

1 min

UK issues alert on Bakhmut as Wagner makes progress

RUSSIAN forces have made progress in the front-line hotspot of Bakhmut, but their assault will be difficult to sustain without further harsh losses, UK military officials said in an assessment on Saturday.

1 min

Xi's close confidant Li Qiang named China's new PM

He is former Shanghai party chief who oversaw its infamous two-month lockdown

2 mins

RP alleges ₹15K cr false transactions in FRL

THE resolution professional of Future Retail has allegedly detected ₹14,809 crore transactions, which could be in the nature of fraudulent, extortionate and preferential in nature, and accordingly moved the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) against erstwhile directors of the company.

1 min

Van Niekerk & the need for support systems

MARIZANNE Kapp had just finished an emotional interaction in the mixed zone after South Africa's triumph against England in the semifinal of the 2023 T20 World Cup.

2 mins

Oz captain Smith's sub-continental chess

AT Indore, Steve Smith revealed that he enjoyed some of the finer aspects of captaining a Test team in Asia. In Australia, if marshalling the troops on the field is a bit like picking between Cappuccino and Espresso, you can play around with Latte, Americano and maybe even a side helping of Affogato in India.

2 mins

Bournemouth stun Liverpool in EPL

MOHAMED Salah missed a penalty as Liverpool came back down to earth with a bump in their shock 1-0 defeat at struggling Bournemouth on Saturday.

1 min

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