The BJP has suffered a major setback in the northeast with 23 of its leaders quitting the party in the last two days. In Arunachal Pradesh, 20 BJP leaders, including two ministers and six MLAs, joined the National People’s Party (NPP) late on Tuesday evening. This move took the strength
Three CRPF personnel were killed Wednesday after a colleague allegedly fired at them after an altercation at their camp in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The alleged fratricide incident happened at around 10 pm when constable Ajit Kumar shot three of his colleagues from his service rifle at the 187th
Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi was arrested and denied bail at the Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday, setting off another high-profile extradition trial involving large-scale financial irregularities in India, three months after that of businessman Vijay Mallya. Modi, 48, was arrested by Scotland Yard in the central London area of Holborn
Abhishek Gogoi, a 19-year-old cyclist from Guwahati, Assam did not let injuries bog him down and even after incurring injuries in his first race at his first-ever Special Olympics World Games, he came back to the competition ground and bagged a silver medal. Abhishek stood on the podium along with
The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday ruled against bandhs and blockades declaring them illegal and unconstitutional and ordered the creation of a fund to recover losses during such agitations from the organisers. Justice Ujjal Bhuyan passed the order while delivering the judgment on a petition filed by Lower Assam Inter-district