Politics

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said that the growing culture of loyalty to political leaders over commitment to ideas and principles is weakening India’s democracy. Without naming any individual or party, his remarks appeared to question the trend of leader-centric politics – including within his own party.“Each party’s insistence on loyalty to…

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that those responsible for the recent Delhi bomb blast will be given the “strictest possible punishment”. He added that the action will send a strong message to the world that no one should ever dare to attack India again.Speaking via video link at the inauguration…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Govt has appointed Namami Gange former DG G Asok Kumar as advisor. He will be advising govt on implementing its ambitious sanitation master plan, studying urban flooding and the clean Yamuna drive. A 1991 batch IAS officer who retired as Nanami Gange DG and special secretary last year, Kumar has earlier…

Dr Adil Ahmad (File photo) NEW DELHI: Days after the Delhi bomb blast that claimed 13 lives and injured over 20, a flight ticket recovered from a garbage pile in Saharanpur has added a new twist to the investigation. The ticket revealed that Dr Adil Ahmad, a Jammu and Kashmir native arrested last week had…

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah (PTI photo/File) NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said that “not every resident of Jammu and Kashmir is a terrorist,” as the probe into the Red Fort car blast widened to Kashmir.“Not every resident of Jammu and Kashmir is a terrorist. It is…

NEW DELHI: India has concluded Exercise Trishul, a major tri-service drill involving 30,000 Army personnel, multiple fighter aircraft and 25 naval ships and submarines.In a display of joint operational strength, top commanders from the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth, Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan and Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, boarded aircraft…

NEW DELHI: BJP Delhi clapped back on AAP’s allegation of fabricating the meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta meeting the same patient in different conditions. AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj shared an image of the PM and CM meeting a patient, claiming the patient appeared with a new plaster…

NEW DELHI: Bihar is set for a decisive political moment as the counting of votes for the 2025 Assembly Elections takes place on Friday, November 14. With high voter turnout and exit polls hinting at a possible return of the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government, all eyes will be on the final numbers that could shape…

NEW DELHI: In quiet corners of Al-Falah University, rooms 4 and 13 were hiding some chilling secrets — maybe a blueprint of terror disguised in diaries and notebooks. Investigators probing the Delhi Red Fort blast are now piecing together findings from diaries and notebooks, including codes, cryptic dates and notes left behind by suspects Dr…

NEW DELHI: Faridabad Police on Thursday detained the man who parked the red EcoSport in Khandwali, ANI reported quoting agency intelligence sources.According to agency intelligence sources cited by ANI, “the man who parked the car is said to be Faheem, who is also a relative of the accused bomber Dr Umar Un Nabi.” Terrifying CCTV…