NEW DELHI: Taking note of a delay in uploading a Punjab and Haryana high court order rejecting an anticipatory bail, Supreme Court directed that the steno book of the judge’s secretary be seized to find out when the order was typed and corrected. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi noted that…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah has constituted inter-ministerial central teams (IMCTs) each for Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and J&K to assess damage caused by heavy rainfall, floods, flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides. These teams would make on-the-spot assessment of the situation and relief works carried out by state govt, home ministry said on…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi, in his monthly radio talk ‘Mann Ki Baat’, Sunday highlighted the decisive role of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in liberating Hyderabad from the Nizam’s rule, a milestone that unified India post-independence. Reiterating the country will celebrate ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’ next month, the PM said it was Patel who persuaded the cabinet…
NEW DELHI: Dirty toilets. Delays in baggage retrieval. Long queues at check-in, security and immigration. Airports may soon pay for these lapses with reduced user development fees under a proposal from Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA).The regulator has issued a consultation paper to create uniform performance standards for all major airports – those handling more…
JAMMU: Police arrested two terror suspects and seized AK-47 rifles during a late-night raid in Jammu & Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said Sunday.The suspects have been identified as Tariq Ahmad Sheikh and Riyaz Ahmad. After sustained questioning, they were taken to Jallian village in Mandi, where police searched a rented room and recovered two AK-47…
NEW DELHI: Probing a massive racket that involved laundering black money out of the country, ED Saturday arrested Amit Agarwal, who has been allegedly found to have used shell entities to send Rs 697 crore to Hong Kong and Singapore under the guise of import of goods and services, which were never received.Agarwal has been…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Sunday spotlighted two new milestones in Jammu & Kashmir – Pulwama’s first-ever day-night cricket match and the inaugural Khelo India Water Sports Festival on Srinagar’s Dal Lake – hailing them as signs of a changing Valley and of India’s sporting aspirations.Calling the sporting events in J&K “special accomplishments”, he said,…
NEW DELHI: The over 2-lakh objections seeking the exclusion of ‘ineligible’ electors from Bihar’s draft electoral roll, received till 3 pm Sunday, are essentially on behalf of those who had filled and submitted their enumeration forms as part of ‘SIR’ while already registered as a voter in a different polling booth, constituency or state, EC…
Amid the threat of India-US ties sliding into a semi comatose state, and the global unease over US’ coercive trade policy, PM Narendra Modi joined hands with President Xi Jinping to expand “common ground” on bilateral, regional, and global challenges including fair trade and terrorism – both otherwise sticking points in bilateral ties – in…
NEW DELHI: Union minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said tribals in the northeast and other parts of the country will be kept out of the ambit of the proposed Uniform Civil Code (UCC), so that they can “freely” live their lives as per their social systems.Speaking at the inauguration of Bhagwan Birsa Munda…