Bathinda: Protesting farmer leaders arrested over a week ago walked out of jails in AAP-governed Punjab Friday, emerging with clenched fists. Punjab AG Gurminder Singh, meanwhile, informed SC that farmer neta Jagjit Dallewal broke his indefinite fast Friday.Kisan netas were taken into custody on March 19 after meeting a ministerial delegation over their demands, which…
New Delhi: The Cabinet on Friday approved two major projects for poll-bound Bihar at an estimated cost of nearly Rs 10,000 crore — the Kosi-Mechi Intra-State River Link and construction of 4-lane access controlled greenfield and brownfield Patna–Arrah–Sasaram highway — which are likely to be completed in the next 3-4 years.Announcing the decision, I&B minister…
Mohali: A special court in Mohali Friday convicted controversial Christian preacher Bajinder Singh, popularly known as Papa Pastor, in a 2018 rape case.The sentence will be pronounced on April 1. The judge found the pastor guilty under IPC sections 376 (rape), 323 (punishment for voluntary causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation), leading to his immediate…
New Delhi: Delhi HC asked jailed J&K Lok Sabha member Abdul Rashid Sheikh, alias Engineer Rashid, on Friday to deposit approximately Rs 4 lakh with prison authorities as travel expenses for attending Parliament. Rashid is currently in Delhi’s Tihar jail.A bench of Justices Chandra Dhari Singh and Anup Jairam Bhambhani had on March 25 allowed…
New Delhi: The ongoing row over Rajput ruler Rana Sanga spilled over into Parliament on Friday, with governing BJP condemning the remark of SP Rajya Sabha member Ramji Lal Suman that Sanga had invited Babur to India, and the Samajwadis and Congress alleging that Suman and other Dalit and tribal representatives were being targeted in…
Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US Department of State (DOS) asking them to self-deport owing to campus activism. Immigration attorneys’ contacted by TOI affirmed this development and added a few Indian students may also be at the receiving end of such emails – for something as inconnues…
New Delhi: India on Friday inked a Rs 62,700 crore contract to acquire 156 indigenous ‘Prachand’ light combat helicopters (LCHs) for its armed forces from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), in the biggest-ever such deal that was signed soon after it got the final nod from the PM-led cabinet committee on security.The CCS approved the procurement…
New Delhi: Govt on Friday notified the transfer of Justice Yashwant Varma from Delhi high court to his parent Allahabad HC even as Supreme Court refused to entertain a PIL seeking an FIR against the judge from whose house piles of cash were allegedly recovered.Sources also told TOI that Delhi Police had sought CJI Sanjiv…
New Delhi: Delhi high court on Friday set aside an order issued by the central govt cancelling the Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) card of academic Ashok Swain. However, the single judge bench of Justice Sachin Dutta granted liberty to the Centre to issue a fresh show-cause notice to Swain. The high court said a…
Roorkee: An FIR has been registered against five students of IIT-Roorkee for attempted murder after they allegedly attacked a 24-year-old MTech student from Jharkhand with glass bottles in his hostel. The accused are on the run, said police.Kishan Kumar Keshri, a resident of Hirapur in Dhanbad, was attacked around 11pm on March 23 at Govind…
