Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal Accusing the previous governments of “ruining” Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said an “honest” regime led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is on the contrary working for the welfare of people. He lauded his party’s government for acting tough against drug smugglers and bringing…
Senior Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram on Thursday dismissed Union minister Amit Shah’s Afzal Guru claim as a “ mixture of insinuation, lie, and distortion.” Clarifying his position, Chidambaram said that during his tenure, the mercy petition filed by Guru’s wife was still under consideration by the President.Union minister Amit Shah on…
BAREILLY: Pocso court judge Devendra Nath Singh sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous punishment for kidnaping and raping a minor girl in 2011. The court relied on educational documents to determine that the survivor was a minor (15 years and 15 days) at the time of the crime though the medical reports had…
JAMMU: Soldiers gunned down two terrorists early Wednesday during a fierce gunfight near the LoC in Poonch district of J&K, foiling an infiltration attempt based on joint intelligence inputs from military and police sources.The shooting started after troops spotted suspicious movement in a forested area close to the LoC. “The operation was based on credible…
Buddha’s Piprahwa relics (X/@narendramodi) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Wednesday that the sacred Piprahwa relics of Lord Buddha have returned to India after 127 years. He noted that although the relics were discovered in 1898, they were taken out of the country during the colonial era. In a post on X, the…
High number of audit findings ‘entirely normal for airlines with extensive operations & large fleet,’ says DGCA NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Wednesday said “a higher number of audit findings is entirely normal for airlines with extensive operations and large fleet sizes.” And that the higher number of audit findings “reflect…
NEW DELHI: In a dramatic development, a junior woman judicial officer has resigned, protesting the appointment of a district judge as an HC judge despite her serious allegations of misconduct against him. In her resignation letter, she lamented that the constitutional courts rewarded a judge who had severely harassed and tormented her.The judicial officer, reinstated…
NEW DELHI: The debate on Operation Sindoor in the Lok Sabha witnessed full-blown arguments, claims, and counterclaims on Tuesday. Amid all the interjections and table-thumping, one member who remained elusive yet in the spotlight was senior Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.Tharoor, who led the Operation Sindoor delegation to the US, wasn’t on the Congress party’s speaker…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his fiery address in Lok Sabha shared new details about Operation Sindoor. The PM said that US Vice President JD Vance had called him on May 9, to inform him about an impending ‘huge’ strike by Pakistan. “On the night of 9th May, the Vice President of America…
NEW DELHI: Nimisha Priya’s death sentence in Yemen has not been overturned, news agency ANI reported on Tuesday citing sources.“Information being shared by certain individuals on the Nimisha Priya case is inaccurate, “sources told ANI.Earlier, Indian Grand Mufti’s office had said that the death sentence has been overturned after high-level meeting held in Sanaa.“The death…
