6 Pak citizens held for smuggling at Gujarat’s Jakhau port
New Delhi: Six Pakistani nationals have been arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) for smuggling 218 kg of narcotics at Gujarat’s Jakhau port, according to an official statement issued Saturday. A boat, ‘Al Madina’, registered in Pakistan, has been seized by the DRI. The DRI got a specific input that a Pakistani fishing […]
78 women MPs make it to the new Lok Sabha
New Delhi: The highest-ever number of women have been elected in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Out of 542 MPs who will take oath as members of the lower house in the next few days, 78 are women with Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal leading at 11 each. A total of 724 women candidates contested […]
27 Muslim MP’s elected to 17th Lok Sabha
New Delhi: The number of Muslim MPs in the Lok Sabha has increased to a decade high of 27, up from 23 last time, with a dozen of them winning from Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal even as none of the six Muslim candidates fielded by BJP tasted victory. Registering an emphatic win, BJP-led NDA […]
Blast in Pak mosque left 2 people dead, 25 injured
Islamabad: A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque ahead of Friday prayers in Pakistan, killing at least two persons and injuring 25 others in the restive Balochistan province, police said. The blast, triggered through an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), targeted the Rehmania Mosque in Pashtunabad area of the provincial capital Quetta, they said. No group […]
Regional parties in WB, AP, Odisha, TN, Telangana resist saffron surge
New Delhi: Regional parties from West Bengal, Odisha, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have somehow managed to hold on to their turfs, bucking the trend of a nationwide surge of the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls. The DMK appears to be sweeping Tamil Nadu and is set to bag 23 of the 23 […]