NEW DELHI: Centre has approved the deployment of 581 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), comprising roughly 58,000 personnel, for securing the Amarnath Yatra, beginning on July 3.The pilgrimage is the first major crowd-attracting event to be organised in Jammu & Kashmir since Pahalgam attack. Both Pahalgam and Amarnath are in Anantnag district. In…
Brushing aside govt objection, SC gives relief to ex-IPS man NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday directed Centre to provide passport/travel documents to former chief of Special Intelligence Bureau of Telangana, T Prabhakar Rao, to allow him to return to India and granted him interim protection in a phone tapping case in which he is being…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday asked Tihar jail officials to submit the inquiry file on the security of Christian Michel James jailed in the AgustaWestland case. The court of Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal directed the senior law officer, prison headquarters, New Delhi, to produce the file by June 6, the next hearing date….
Chinese students in US face growing fear as visa revocations target top universities. (AI Image) Chinese students in the United States are reeling from the announcement by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that some student visas will be revoked, specifically targeting those in “critical fields” and individuals with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist…
Give local address or stay in Tihar: SC to Agusta accused NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea of AgustaWestland scam accused and British national Christian Michel James for doing away with one of the bail conditions of providing a local address where he would stay after coming out of jail….
‘Dirty Harry’ gets 10 yrs in US jail for 4 deaths during trafficking bid AHMEDABAD: Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, alias “Dirty Harry”, was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in a US federal prison for his role in the human smuggling operation that resulted in four members of a Gujarati family dying while trying to cross…
HC directs YouTuber to take down defamatory content on news agency NEW DELHI: Delhi HC Thursday instructed YouTuber Mohak Mangal to remove segments of a video he had uploaded, contending that its contents related to ANI were harmful to the news agency. The court passed the order while hearing the news agency’s defamation case.Justice Amit…
New Delhi: Supreme Court Thursday refused to entertain a doctor’s plea seeking suspension of the sentence of life imprisonment awarded to him after being convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso) for raping his seven-year-old daughter.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma said he was not entitled…
Higher loans, credit cards coming street vendors’ way NEW DELHI: With the contours of the revamped PM SVANidhi scheme having been finalised, street vendors will be getting higher subsidised loans, as well as credit cards with a limit of Rs 30,000, on account of banks coming on board. The credit cards will be issued by…
HYDERABAD: In an escalation of intra-party squabbling in Telangana, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC and former MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha, daughter of party supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao, Thursday accused senior netas within her own party of attempting to merge BRS with BJP – a move she says she vehemently opposed even while incarcerated in the Delhi liquor…
