More than 300 people, mainly tourists and pilgrims on the Adi Kailash yatra, were stranded in Dharchula and Gunji areas of Pithoragarh district near the India-China border on Thursday, 48 hours after a massive landslide on Tuesday evening blocked access to the critical Lipulekh-Tawaghat border road near Lakhanpur in Uttarakhand.
Sarath Reddy, one of the key accused in the Delhi liquor scam, has turned approver in what can boost the ED’s case against AAP leader and former Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia and others accused of rigging the excise policy of 2021-22 in favour of a cartel controlled by Hyderabad-based South Group. Reddy had moved a special court seeking to turn approver and said he was “ready to make true disclosure voluntarily” about organising and handling alleged kickbacks in the scam.
Efforts to enhance energy and connectivity ties dominated the agenda of PM Narendra Modi’s meeting Thursday with his visiting Nepal counterpart PK Dahal Prachanda that saw the two countries sign seven agreements and launch six projects, including inauguration of new railway services. Modi assured Prachanda that India will work to take the relationship to Himalayan heights and resolve the boundary dispute between India and Nepal in the same spirit.
Amid efforts back home to galvanise the rival political forces against the BJP government at the Centre with an eye on next year's Lok Sabha elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the Opposition in India was "pretty well united". Putting forth his point of view on a range of issues during a conversation at the National Press Club in Washington DC, Rahul said his party was in touch with fellow Opposition forces.
When the railway police scanned the images closely, they got a close look at his gait and footwear-chappals with a loop to slip in the big toe. Two days of some clever sleuthing helped nab a person who has admitted he had lifted the phone from the train.
According to sources, Patil was initially given the IT-BT portfolio along with industries. However, in a subsequent revision, the department went to Kharge along with RDPR. With Patil keen on IT and BT and apparently opposing this move, Siddaramaiah had kept the portfolio to himself.
A division bench headed by Justice B Veerappa gave this direction while acquitting a Tumakuru man of rape charges. The court, however, affirmed his conviction vis-a-vis the murder charge.
The recovery included an AK-56 rifle with balance 10 rounds in the magazine (rest of the ammunition had been fired by the terrorist who was injured), two pistols with two magazines, 70 pistol rounds, one IED weighing around 10-12kg, six Chinese grenades and 20 packets of narcotics, the Lt Col added.
