YSRCP MP PV Midhun Reddy (File Photo) VIJAYAWADA: YSRCP MP P V Midhun Reddy was arrested by Andhra SIT late on Saturday after nearly seven hours of questioning in the alleged Rs 3,200 crore liquor scam. The arrest comes after the anticipatory bail petitions of Mithun Reddy were rejected by AP high court and Supreme…
CHENNAI: Enforcement Directorate is not a “loitering munition or drone” that can strike at will, nor a “super cop” empowered to investigate every matter that comes to its notice, Madras HC has observed while quashing a Rs 901-crore fixed deposit freeze order issued by the agency. A division bench of Justices MS Ramesh and V…
KISHTWAR: A 35-year-old woman died after being struck by a bullet accidentally fired by a Village Defence Guard (VDG) member in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district late Friday night.“Pushpa Devi was outside her house attending to daily chores in Aragam village in Singhpura-Chatroo area when she was fatally struck by a bullet. The VDG member…
Jammu: At least 12 people including three women were injured after a bus travelling from Udhampur to Jammu met with an accident near Jhajjar Kotli on Saturday morning, police said.Police said the driver lost control and the bus turned turtle.A police team, along with locals, began a rescue operation and took the injured passengers to…
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir administration deployed a heavy contingent of police and paramilitary forces outside the Congress headquarters in Srinagar on Saturday, preventing a planned march demanding the restoration of full statehood.Congress’s J&K unit chief, Tariq Hameed Karra, and party general secretary G A Mir, were present at the party office to lead the…
Jacket made from Siachen waste, drive to clean Indus SRINAGAR: The Indian army gifted a jacket made from recycled waste collected in the Siachen glacier region to Tashi Gyalson, the chief executive councillor (CEC) of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) in Leh earlier last week. The move is part of army’s green initiative focused…
PDP’s Waheed Parra; CM Omar Abdullah Srinagar: Urdu has become the latest political hot potato in Jammu and Kashmir. After the row over mandatory knowledge of the language for naib tehsildar recruitments, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) legislator Waheed Parra on Saturday accused Omar Abdullah-led National Conference govt of digitising the land records in English, instead…
Jammu: Security forces launched a search operation in the upper reaches of Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday after reports about the movement of two-three suspected persons in the area.Army and J&K Police personnel launched a joint search operation in Malad village after some locals reported about a group of men who enquired…
BARNALA: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday dedicated eight public libraries, constructed at a cost of Rs 2.80 crore, to people here. Speaking at the event, the chief minister said that eight libraries in the assembly constituencies of Bhadaur and Mehal Kalan have been dedicated to people. Mann said that Rs 2.80 crore has…
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday accused the BJP and the RSS of wanting to rewrite India’s Constitution, asserting that no matter how hard they try, “the Constitution cannot be destroyed.”Speaking at a mega convention organised by the Karnataka government, Kharge said, “Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar is the architect of our Constitution, not Modi, not the…