BHOPAL/JABALPUR: The Madhya Pradesh high court has refused to interfere with the judgment of a Pocso court in Narmadapuram district awarding 20 years of rigorous imprisonment to a person accused of having sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, whom he married later. The couple now has a child.A division bench of Justices Vivek Agarwal and R…
GUWAHATI: A special NIA court convicted and sentenced a key accused in a Hizbul Mujahideen terror conspiracy case to life imprisonment, the agency said Wednesday. The convict, Kamruj Zaman alias Hurairah or Kamaruddin from Erakapili village in Assam‘s Hojai district, was arrested in 2018 for conspiring to raise a module of the banned outfit in…
NEW DELHI: The Pragati-led ecosystem for monitoring of projects and flagship schemes has helped accelerate projects worth more than Rs 85 lakh crore in the past decade, PM Modi said Wednesday while chairing the 50th Pragati meeting online with secretaries and chief secretaries.Modi described the milestone as a symbol of the deep transformation India has…
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has recovered over Rs 5 crore in unaccounted cash, Rs 8 crore in gold and diamond jewellery, and property documents worth Rs 35 crore during searches on alleged gangster Inderjit Singh Yadav’s premises. The investigation into money laundering stems from Yadav’s alleged illegal extortion and coercive loan settlements. NEW DELHI: In…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission Wednesday issued a strict warning that intimidation of electoral staff by political workers will not be tolerated and that stringent action will be taken against miscreants who attempt to take the law into their own hands. After a meeting with a TMC delegation, officials said the poll panel urged party…
NEW DELHI: After its delegation met the full bench of EC Wednesday, Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee alleged that “vote chori” is not happening through EVMs but through manipulation of electoral rolls, a tactic he said opposition parties failed to catch in states such as Haryana, Maharashtra, Delhi and Bihar, where they lost the…
ED attaches UK-based high-value property located near Buckingham Palace in Rs 1,400 crore bank fraud case NEW DELHI: In a case of alleged laundering of Rs 1,400 crore of bank loans, ED on Wednesday said it has attached properties worth Rs 150 crore near Buckingham Palace in the UK belonging to Nitin Kasliwal, former CMD…
Pralay missiles being tested by DRDO NEW DELHI: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Wednesday morning successfully conducted a salvo launch of two ‘Pralay’ missiles in quick succession from the same launcher at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha.Defence minister Rajnath Singh has complimented DRDO, IAF, Indian Army, defence…
NEW DELHI: Isro has started the process to develop a third launchpad at the Sriharikota spaceport as it gears up for future launches of heavy satellites.The agency is currently identifying right vendors for it, a senior scientist said. To move ahead with its plan of placing bigger satellites, weighing over 12,000-14,000 kg, in various orbits…
Suspected debris of LVM3 rocket found on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka. NEW DELHI: Days after Isro launched its heavy-lift rocket LVM3 carrying US BlueBird Block-2 satellite, rocket debris, suspected of the Indian space rocket, washed ashore on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka. The rocket part was found on Sunday evening along the…