NEW DELHI: Delhi high court Thursday sought NIA‘s reply on Baramulla MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh’s plea challenging the framing of charges against him in a terror funding case.A bench of justices Vivek Chaudhary and Shalinder Kaur also called for the trial court record in the matter and listed the plea for hearing on Oct 6.The…
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomes PM Modi to the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP) NEW DELHI: Canada has appointed diplomat Jeff David as the consul general in Mumbai, according to an announcement by Canadian foreign minister Anita Anand.This is the first diplomatic appointment by Canada here since the expulsion…
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday informed Rajya Sabha that over 78,000 hectare of forest land was approved for diversion across India for non-forest use (various projects) in the past four years and the country undertook plantations in over 93.7 lakh hectare of land in the past five years under various schemes.Data shared by the…
MUMBAI: Special trial judge A K Lahoti, in a key finding that led to the collapse of the Malegaon blast case, held that the prior sanction under the anti-terror law UAPA against the accused was “invalid.” It was issued without judicious application of mind, and the mandatory twin test safeguard required by law was not…
NEW DELHI: Professor Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, a senior academician and former director of IIT-Roorkee and Mandi, has been appointed as the new vice chancellor of Banaras Hindu University (BHU), the ministry of education officials confirmed Thursday.Currently serving as a professor in the department of electrical engineering at IIT-Kanpur, Chaturvedi will take charge for a three-year…
NEW DELHI: Congress neta Rahul Gandhi Thursday said US President Donald Trump has stated a fact that India has a “dead economy”, asserting that the BJP govt is running the country to the ground because PM Narendra Modi “works for just one person, Adani”.Claiming there is “total confusion”, Rahul said the Modi govt has destroyed…
NEW DELHI: From being charged with surrendering to Donald Trump and suspending Operation Sindoor, to being attacked by the US President for not towing his line on the trade deal, events have moved fast for the Narendra Modi govt over the last 48 hours or so.The US President’s unsubstantiated claim that he coerced India into…
Pityush Goyal (File photo) NEW DELHI: Amid Donald Trump’s offensive, the government on Thursday dug its heels in on trade, saying it will not compromise on the interests of farmers.Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal‘s statement in Parliament reflected the stalemate between India and the US over the sensitive issue of farm and dairy sectors….
SRINAGAR: J&K’s Omar Abdullah-led govt has drafted a new media policy promising greater autonomy and space for digital ads, moving away from a set of 2020 norms introduced after the abrogation of Article 370 with stringent, security-driven clauses focused on curbing “anti-national narratives and reinforcing control”.The draft Media Policy 2025, set to be unveiled soon…
JAMMU: A local court in Jammu on Wednesday remanded in police custody an SUV driver — accused in an attempted murder case — for six days.This came three days after a rashly driven SUV hit a 68-year-old scooter driver in Jammu’s Gandhinagar on July 27, reversed and rammed the scooterist again in an apparent deliberate…