CHANDIGARH: In a major respite to suspended special CBI judge Sudhir Parmar, arrested by ED in connection with an alleged Rs 400-crore money-laundering scam involving real estate developers, a departmental committee has given him a clean chit. However, the inquiry officer’s report is yet to be accepted by HC administration. Parmar faced charges of misconduct…
NEW DELHI: Observing that it was not a crime to love and teenagers falling in love should not be treated as criminals and sent behind bars, Supreme Court on Tuesday stressed the need to protect mutual romantic relations between adolescents instead of criminalising them under Pocso Act.At a time when the Centre is strongly objecting…
New DELHI: India on Tuesday gave the final nod for acquisition of another 97 indigenous Tejas fighter jets and six advanced airborne early-warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft or “eyes in the sky”, collectively worth around Rs 85,500 crore, which will be crucial to tackle the collusive and ‘fused’ challenge from China-Pakistan in the years ahead.The…
Kishtwar: Search and rescue operation underway at cloudburst-hit Chisoti village, in Kishtwar district, Jammu and Kashmir. (PTI Photo) CHASOTI (KISHTWAR): The stream that villagers once crossed casually on their way to the fields turned into a roaring wall of water on Aug 14. It carried boulders, timber and slush down the slope, smashing into the…
Chasoti (Kishtwar) flash floods CHASOTI (KISHTWAR): Almost as many severed limbs as intact bodies have been recovered in Chasoti in the past two days after the flash floods, leaving villagers and doctors at Atholi sub-district hospital, 30km downhill from the affected area, shaken. On Monday, one intact body and a severed leg were retrieved. On…
NEW DELHI: Citing safety concerns amid ongoing inclement weather in J&K and two back-to-back cloudburst tragedies in Kishtwar and Kathua districts, the Doda district administration has curtailed the three-day Kailash Kund Yatra in Bhaderwah from Aug 20-22 to only symbolic rituals this year.Kailash Kund Yatra is considered one of the toughest treks, wherein pilgrims cover…
Union home minister Amit Shah (File photo) NEW DELHI: The government will on Wednesday introduce three bills in Parliament to provide a legal framework for the removal of prime minister, a Union minister, chief minister, or a minister in a state/Union territory if they are arrested or detained on serious criminal charges.According to PTI, the…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) on Tuesday said that it will issue a showcause notice to the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), citing violation of its grant-in-aid rules over release of misleading election data. It stated, “It has come to the notice of ICSSR that an individual…
Arvind Kejriwal decided to support Sudershan Reddy’s candidature: Sanjay Singh NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Tuesday said that retired Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy is the joint candidate of opposition parties for the upcoming Vice Presidential elections and confirmed AAP’s support for his candidature.“Understand this first that…
AMBALA: The district police and administrative authorities have rescued 22 men from an illegal drug de-addiction centre being run in Langar Chhanni village in Saha area of Ambala district on Monday. The rescued persons were taken to civil hospital in Ambala Cantonment, from where 17 were handed over to their family members on Monday night…