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Union home minister Amit Shah (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Friday said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, with his tireless efforts and iron will, stitched together 562 fragmented, princely Indian states into one united nation post-Independence, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed his unfinished task by fully integrating of J&K with India by…

NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday called for a ban on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), linking it to what he described as widespread law and order problems in the country. “It is my personal opinion, it should be done,” Kharge said when asked whether the RSS should be banned, adding that “most…

NEW DELHI: Twenty Jammu and Kashmir Police officers — including IG Kashmir Vidhi Kumar Birdi, DIG Central Kashmir Pande Rajiv Omprakash and SSP Srinagar Sundeep Chakravarthy — have been awarded the ‘Kendriya Grihmantri Dakshata Padak’ for avenging the Pahalgam terror attack, news agency PTI reported. The Union home ministry announced on Friday that 1,466 police…

The voting for the 243-seat Bihar assembly will be held in two phases on November 6 and 11. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by grim statistics, especially when it comes to Bihar. It’s at the bottom of most development indicators when compared with other states. But what if we look at the data not just…

NEW DELHI: CPI(Maoist) central committee (CC) member in charge of the banned outfit’s Odisha state committee, Ganesh Uike, has criticised his CC colleague Chandranna over his recent surrender before the Telangana police, and claimed that efforts to take the “Naxal movement” forward will continue notwithstanding the reverses over the last two years.Uike also disowned Chandranna’s…

NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha on Thursday ordered the termination of two J&K government teachers found by an internal enquiry to be part of Lashker e Taiba’s (LeT) overground network in Jammu division’s Reasi and Rajouri districts respectively.The two staffers — Ghulam Hussain, who joined the J&K education department in 2004 and…

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday criticised Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, alleging that Gandhi insulted the Chhath Puja festival as he is ignorant of India’s culture since Italy is his “maternal home”.Addressing multiple rallies in Bihar, Shah said the INDIA bloc will be “wiped out” and that voters would “avenge” what he…

New Delhi: In an unprecedentedly swift process, Union govt completed the formalities for appointment of Chief Justice of India within seven days of initiating the process as on Thursday President Droupadi Murmu designated Justice Surya Kant as the next CJI. He will take oath on Nov 24.Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal had sent a…

Bihar polls: NDA to release joint manifesto on October 31 PATNA: NDA is all set to release its manifesto for the assembly elections on Friday, focusing on creating jobs within the state in sectors such as IT, semiconductors and micro, small and medium enterprises and setting up a contrast with opposition alliance, Mahagathbandhan’s bid to…

PATNA: Bihar don-turned-neta Dularchand Yadav, once a familiar face by RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad’s side, was shot dead Thursday during a clash in Patna’s Mokama Tal, allegedly by assailants linked to rival strongman Anant Singh.The 75-year-old was campaigning for Jan Suraaj candidate Priyadarshi Piyush when a confrontation between his supporters and Anant’s group turned violent,…