NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate Friday moved Delhi high court challenging a trial court’s Dec 16 order that dismissed its prosecution complaint (equivalent to a police chargesheet) against Congress MPs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and others, in the National Herald laundering case. The criminal revision petition is likely to be listed for hearing next week.ED…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Friday put traditional medicine at the centre of global health conversation, flagging launch of Traditional Medicine Global Library (TMGL) as a shared international platform to anchor ayurveda, yoga & other ancient systems in research, policy and evidence-based care.Addressing the closing ceremony of the Second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah chaired a meeting in Friday for the constitution of Bureau of Port Security (BoPS), an overarching agency responsible for regulation and oversight functions related to the security of ships and port facilities across the country.The setting up of BoPS, which will be modelled after Bureau of Civil Aviation (BCAS)…
NEW DELHI: Raising the battle stakes over MGNREGA with the BJP, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday said Congress will force the Modi govt to withdraw the disbanding of the job guarantee scheme, with the party warning that farmers’ protest forced the Centre to roll back the “three black farm laws”. ‘Congress also warned that after…
Modi, Priyanka At Post-Session Tea Meeting NEW DELHI: Rancour and blame game inside Parliament made way for conviviality and cordiality at a customary post-parliamentary session get-together of govt functionaries, including PM Narendra Modi, and opposition MPs at Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s chamber over tea on Friday.Congress and other opposition parties, which had skipped the…
NEW DELHI: A man asking his wife to maintain an Excel sheet for all the household expenses cannot be termed as cruelty to initiate criminal proceedings, Supreme Court on Friday said while quashing an FIR registered by the wife against her husband. The court said that it maybe a reflection of Indian society where men…
MUMBAI: With victims and eyewitnesses deposing in sign language, a special Pocso court recently convicted and sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment the former headmaster and a retired teacher of a school for the deaf and aphasic for the sexual assault of three students between 2013 and 2014. The judge noted school is a “pious…
SRINAGAR: PDP member Iltija Mufti filed a police complaint in Srinagar on Friday against what she termed a “brutal assault” by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar “on the autonomy, identity and dignity of every Indian woman”, referring to a viral video showing him purportedly gesturing to an AYUSH graduate in a hijab to show her face…
SRINAGAR: Adventure Tour Operators Association of India (ATOAI), the national representative body of Indian adventure tour operators, on Friday described J&K as a safe and secure tourist destination, calling for the reopening of all spots closed by the Union Territory administration after the Pahalgam terror attack.Addressing a press conference, ATOAI president Ajeet Bajaj said the…
JAMMU: Security forces have mounted an extensive search operation in different villages of Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir after reports of movement of suspicious people in the region.Official sources said troops from 49 Rashtriya Rifles, J&K Police and Special Operations Group launched the simultaneous cordon and search operations around midnight on Thursday after receiving…