India’s haunted destinations offer an untapped tourism opportunity, with paranormal experiences yet to become a mainstream travel attraction. (AI-generated image) India’s ghosts have a customer service problem.There is almost an abundance of local places which have a reputation of being haunted in each and every state.There are ghost villages where nobody is quite sure why…
Bigger stations, better trains: Is the passenger experience keeping pace? NEW DELHI: New trains, redeveloped stations and upgraded infrastructure are changing the face of Indian Railways. But has the passenger experience changed at the same pace?For millions of people who depend on the network every day, the real test of modernisation begins well beyond a…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar should not only be impeached but also prosecuted for treason over the alleged irregularities in Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.In his closing remarks during the mock parliament of INDIA bloc, Rahul said that the opposition…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court judge Justice Anish Dayal described judges as “great authors” and courtrooms as a “remarkable theatre”, drawing parallels between the judicial process and storytelling.“Judges are great authors. In our case files, we have real stories, real characters, plots, sometimes real, sometimes fictitious. We have problems and, in our judgments, we have…
NEW DELHI: Andhra Pradesh Congress president YS Sharmila has shifted her daughter’s wedding to another venue after her brother, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, refused to allow his Bengaluru property to be used for the ceremony.In a social media post on X, Sharmila defended her ownership claim over the Yelahanka property and said it was allotted…
The Congress-led opposition INDIA bloc is holding a “public impeachment” against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Two schoolgirls were injured in Raptadu in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district after a man allegedly barged into their classroom with a chainsaw and attacked them. Jammu and…
“Keep him as your mock Prime Minister for life,” Sambit Patra’s dig at Rahul Gandhi. NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday held a press briefing parallel to the proceedings of the INDIA bloc’s “public impeachment” of CEC Gyanesh Kumar, saying the programme by the Congress-led bloc was “a mockery of the Parliament…
Kharge accused the CEC of centralising control over electoral rolls and acting at the behest of PM Modi. NEW DELHI: Leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday accused Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar of facilitating “vote theft” and listed six charges against him at a symbolic “public impeachment” organised by…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday said that the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls was initiated to remove anti-BJP votes as he kickstarted the INDIA bloc’s public impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of voter irregularities.Moving the impeachment motion in the mock Parliament, Kharge said Gyanesh Kumar was…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday dismissed Union home minister Amit Shah‘s claim that the BJP was firmly entrenched in Uttar Pradesh, questioning him over crimes against women and Dalits in the state. Party MP Awadhesh Prasad also hit back at Shah’s “Angad’s foot” remark, saying the BJP’s political footing had “already…
