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Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur (sitting) CHANDIGARH: In a late-night development, the Haryana government has sent Director General of Police (DGP) Shatrujeet Kapur on leave amid the controversy surrounding the death of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who had named Kapur in his suicide note. The decision has come just a day before the leader…

Chief minister Omar Abdullah SRINAGAR: Congress withdrew Monday from next week’s Rajya Sabha elections to four seats from J&K, accusing its partner National Conference (NC) of denying it a “safe seat” even as the governing party nominated its fourth candidate, pushing the INDIA bloc partners to the brink of a split.The strains deepened amid a…

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday criticised the Haryana government and chief minister Nayab Singh Saini over delays in compensating farmers affected by floods in the state.“If farmers in Punjab can receive Rs 20,000 per acre in compensation within 30 days, why can’t the same be done in Haryana?” said AAP national media in-charge…

Photo credit: ANI NEW DELHI: Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa arrived in Delhi on Monday for a four-day State Visit. He was received at the airport by union minister of State for Civil Aviation and Cooperation, Murlidhar Mohol.Ministry of external affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated that President Ukhnaa was accorded a Guard of Honour and…

NEW DELHI: RSS has demanded a comprehensive and impartial investigation into the death of 26-year-old Anandu Aji from Elikkulam in Kottayam district, calling the incident “sad and unfortunate.” Anandu, a native of Ponkunnam in Kottayam, was found dead in a hotel room in Thampanoor, Thiruvananthapuram, last week. Following his death, a scheduled Instagram post surfaced…

NEW DELHI: The Union government has prepared a Rs 6.4 trillion ($77 billion) transmission plan to transfer more than 76 gigawatts of hydroelectric capacity from the Brahmaputra basin by 2047 to meet rising electricity demand, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) said on Monday.In a report released on Monday, the CEA said the plan includes 208…

Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan interacts with the school students (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Over three lakh schools across the country participated simultaneously in the Viksit Bharat Buildathon (VBB) 2025 on Monday, which the officials described as the largest synchronized innovation hackathon in India’s history. The nationwide initiative, launched by the ministry of education in collaboration…

Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo credit: PTI), The Supreme Court (ANI) The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a CBI probe into the stampede at actor Vijay’s TVK rally in Karur, Tamil Nadu, appointing a three-member panel led by retired judge Ajay Rastogi to supervise the investigation. The US-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire saw the first hostage and…

AAP government begins compensating farmers Punjab’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government on Monday initiated one of the state’s largest relief operations following severe floods that damaged crops, farmland, and homes across the region. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann announced a special girdawari (crop loss survey) on September 11, targeting completion within 45 days, but compensation began…

Bansuri Swaraj and Mamata Banerjee (R) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has come under fire from the BJP after her remarks on the recent gangrape of an MBBS student in Durgapur. The main opposition party in the state, BJP on Monday accused Mamata of “justifying rape,” triggering a political row in Bengal.BJP…