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Amritsar: Village defence committees (VDCs) have been deputed in a 15 km rural belt in Amritsar bordering Pakistan to assist the Border Security Force (BSF), the Punjab Police and other security agencies in strengthening border security and…

Chandigarh: The defeat of the AAP-Congress joint mayoral candidate in Chandigarh today left the two alliance partners of INDIA fuming against the BJP, which managed to win the poll after eight votes were declared invalid. Though the two…

SRINAGAR: Eying all the parliamentary seats in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP has established poll offices across all constituencies in the Union Territory, while also announcing the launch of party’s election campaign. The party leaders…

AHMEDABAD: In Gujarat, ‘love jihad’ and ‘Kerala Story’ have once again come into the spotlight ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The ‘Vishwa Umiadham organization’ in Gujarat invited five girls from Kerala who were victims of love jihad and…

This vote bank had been systematically nurtured over the years in opposition to the Maratha community.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prem Chand Aggarwal told this newspaper that the Assembly secretariat has issued a notification for the upcoming session.

The resignation of JMM MLA from Gandey, Sarafraj Ahmed, may also be looked at as a political strategy as experts believe that the seat has been kept vacant for Kalpana Soren.

The accused was sentenced to 20 years in prison, while Principal Anusuya received a six-month imprisonment term.

SHIMLA: Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu today proposed an annual budget plan of Rs 9,989.49 crore for 2024-25, an increase of almost 5 per cent over last year. He presided over the first session of the MLA priority meeting with the…

CHANDIGARH: Will the ruling BJP be able to spring a surprise or the Congress-AAP alliance, which has more votes, will have its way will become clear as the mayoral poll are scheduled to be held at the assembly hall of the Municipal…

ROHTAK: Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today handed over his ancestral house situated at Baniyani village in Rohtak district to the village community. Khattar halted at his village while travelling from Rohtak to Bhiwani this…

AMRITSAR: The Congress workers’ meeting held here on Monday witnessed heated exchange of words between supporters of former Deputy Chief Minister OP Soni and Amritsar Lok Sabha MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla. The meeting was held to take feedback…

CHANDIGARH: Criticising the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab Government, state Congress leaders on Monday came in support of the vlogger Bhana Sidhu. Leader of the Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, former CM Charanjit Singh Channi, former Deputy…

Bipinjot Gill, who arrived in Canada in 2016 on a student visa, sped through a red light in Calgary on May 18, 2019, killing Uzma Afzal, 31, and her mother, Bilquees Begum, 65, on the spot

On Monday, demonstrators descended upon Keragodu village, demanding the reinstatement of the Hanuman flag and marched 15 km to register their protest.

Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat has initiated a significant recruitment campaign.

Soren had left Ranchi for Delhi on January 27, with his party saying on Monday that he had gone for personal work and will be back.

Hundreds of supporters of the RJD along with a few leaders had assembled outside the office of the agency in support of Lalu.

“The consultations are still on and it is unlikely that the commission will submit its report before LS polls,” said the official.

BJP union minister Narayan Rane said the move would be an injustice to other small communities already falling under the OBC.