NEW DELHI: Jailed Independent MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh from J&K has approached Delhi high court seeking relief from the requirement to pay Rs 1.45 lakh a day for transportation and security arrangements while attending the ongoing Parliament session in custody.Also known as Engineer Rashid, he has been imprisoned in Delhi’s Tihar Jail after NIA arrested…
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has apprehended a Delhi Police head constable and a constable from Sagarpur police station for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh from a complainant. The SHO has been placed under suspension and sent to district lines.A case was registered by the CBI on March…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Thursday ruled out India signing the 1951 UN convention on refugees which requires the govt to take refugees and recognise their rights, saying India was not a “dharamshala” (rest house).“India is not a dharamshala where anyone can come and settle for any reason. Parliament has the authority to…
BENGALURU: A sessions court in Bengaluru on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Kannada actor Ranya Rao in gold smuggling case. This was the third time she failed to get court relief.According to prosecution, Ranya admitted to using hawala channels to facilitate gold purchases. In response, the authorities have issued a notice to initiate a…
Defence ministry Thursday inked contracts worth Rs 2,500 crore for Nag anti-tank missile (Namis) tracked platforms and 5,000 light vehicles for the armed forces. The Namis deal was inked with state-owned Armoured Vehicle Nigam Ltd and light vehicles one with Force Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra in the presence of defence secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh….
RAIPUR: Crumbling under relentless pressure from security forces, Maoists in Bastar may be recruiting child soldiers as young as nine years old.A handwritten Maoist letter in Telugu found at a recent encounter site in a forest in Bijapur’s Abujhmarh claims that CPI (Maoist) has recruited 130 cadres from Marh region, 80 of them minors, including…
NEW DELHI: The role and conduct of some middle-rung police officers and a few first responders is under the scanner in the fire incident at Justice Yashwant Varma’s official residence, from where piles of burnt currency were recovered, sources said.On the day the Delhi fire chief appeared before the Supreme Court-constituted panel probing the matter,…
KASGANJ: There is little trace of either relief or joy in a remote village of marginal labourers some 60km from Kasganj town, now at the centre of a Supreme Court observation that followed an Allahabad high court order which said a child’s breasts being groped over clothing and drawstrings of her pyjama being broken did…
NEW DELHI: India-Russia relations have a solid material base as economic cooperation expands steadily, and bilateral trade exceeds $60 billion, successfully overcoming the attempts of “individual ill-wishers” to prevent this, said Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.With Russian President Putin expected to visit India this year for the annual summit, Lavrov said preparations are underway for…
KASARAGOD: Kerala’s firefighters responded to an unusual emergency recently, helping doctors remove a 1.5-inch metal nut stuck on the genitals of a 46-year-old man in Kasaragod district’s Kanhangad. The bizarre intervention ensued when the man went to Kasaragod district hospital late Tuesday, claiming some unidentified persons had inserted a metal nut into his genitals after…
