MEERUT: A Saharanpur court on Thursday sentenced five men of a family to be “hanged till death” for killing an advocate in 2015.On December 26, 2015, Karamveer Singh (31), was heading to his Saharanpur home in his car with his father Satyapal Chabbra, a property dealer. Additional district government counsel (ADGC) Bikram Singh told TOI…
BHUBANESWAR: Amid murmurs about V K Pandian’s role in BJD’s electoral debacle and his absence in public since the June 4 results, the party on Thursday clarified that he was in New Delhi on instructions of outgoing CM Naveen Patnaik.“There are some misleading media reports on his (Pandian’s) Delhi tour,” BJD Rajya Sabha member Sasmit…
NEW DELHI: Vishal Patil who has been elected as independent MP from Sangli in Maharashtra on Thursday met the Congress brass and extended his support to the party. The development is significant as Congress that was stuck at 99 MPs can claim support of 100 members, even if technically an independent cannot join a political…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha secretariat on Thursday said statues of Mahatma Gandhi, B R Ambedkar and Chhatrapati Shivaji, among others, are being respectfully relocated to a “grand Prerana Sthal” in the Parliament House Complex itself as part of a landscaping exercise, even as the move drew sharp criticism from the Congress.The Lok Sabha secretariat clarified…
MOHALI: Special CBI court judge RK Gupta on Thursday convicted former Punjab Police DIG Dilbagh Singh and retired DSP Gurbachan Singh in a fake encounter case of 1993. The conviction came 31 years after the fake encounter and the two convicted former police officers will be sentenced on Friday.Advocate Sarabjeet Singh Verka said the case…
SRINAGAR: J&K Police have filed an FIR against a student of Srinagar’s Government Medical College (GMC) over an alleged blasphemous postamid protests. The absconding student has been suspended.Classes at the medical college have been suspended for three days till Saturday because of the protests by junior doctors, students as well as faculty members over the…
LONDON: Leicester’s Diwali celebrations — considered to be the largest outside India — could get cancelled as the city council which funds them can no longer afford the massive costs.The two-day event, which consists of a spectacular switch-on of 6,000 LED lights shaped as diyas, on the Golden Mile and stage performances, fair rides and…
MEERUT: Two days after two-time BJP MP from Muzaffarnagar Sanjeev Balyan lost the seat by over 24,000 votes, the party’s former MLA from Sardhana, Sangeet Som, broke his silence and washed off his hands from any role in the debacle.Som said on Thursday: “I was in charge of Sardhana assembly constituency of Muzaffarnagar Lok Sabha…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to form the NDA government at the Centre for a third consecutive term, with Narendra Modi poised to take oath as prime minister once again.The newly elected Members of Parliament (MPs) from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) are expected to meet on Friday to formally…
NEW DELHI: The Nassau County ground‘s track has raised concerns during the ongoing T20 World Cup, with the ICC acknowledging on Thursday that the pitches used thus far have not played as consistently as we would have all wanted. The track is described as “bordering on dangerous with huge open cracks”.These worries intensified following India’s…
