NEW DELHI: As part of its crackdown on narco-smuggling, govt on Thursday announced a switch to a “duty-to-share” protocol to make agencies exchange crucial information on drug trafficking.Union home minister Amit Shah emphasised that profits generated from narco-smuggling mark the “most serious security threat” as he called for a rigorous review of financial investigations into…
NEW DELHI: Holding that speedy trial is a fundamental right of an accused, an SC bench of Justice J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan has said long incarceration with the improbability of the trial being completed in the near future is a good ground to grant bail, which cannot be denied just because the charges…
SRINAGAR: Two suspected Pakistani terrorists were shot dead Thursday near the LoC in Keran sector of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said. Security forces launched an operation following intelligence about the movement of terrorists along the border, leading to a shootout.The officials said bodies of the slain terrorists haven’t been extricated from the site as…
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday defended the move of Muzaffarnagar police directing eateries on the Kanwar Yatra route to “voluntarily display” names of their owners and employees and slammed the opposition’s “misplaced outrage” over the issue. This even as one of BJP’s key allies, the Janata Dal (United) of Nitish Kumar, also opposed the…
NEW DELHI: Bhartiya Janata Party leader and former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday opposed the advisory to eateries along the Kanwar yatra route, requiring them to display the names of their owners. Naqvi claimed that such orders may give rise to the disease of untouchability.In a social media post on X, Naqvi criticized…
NEW DELHI: Assam government on Thursday decided to repeal the colonial-era Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorce Registration Act and Rules 1935.Sharing the government’s decision on X, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma called it a “significant step to ensure justice” as it would put “additional safeguard against child marriage“.“We have taken a significant step to ensure…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission (EC) on Thursday allowed Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasheb Thackeray), or UBT to accept public contributions in view of the looming Maharashtra assembly polls.Uddhav Thackery-led party had requested the poll body to issue a communication or certificate recording the status of the party for the purpose of accepting voluntary contributions from the…
Amid massive uproar over Karnataka’s quota bill which has now been put on hold, a woman’s post of her harrowing experience in Bengaluru has gone viral. The woman claimed that she decided to quit her job as she felt homesick after being “engulfed by negativity”. Apart from her daily tussle with auto drivers, she recounted…
NEW DELHI: Four people were killed and 20 injured when eight coaches of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailed near Gonda in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.“Train number 15904 Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express that left Wednesday night from Chandigarh derailed near Gonda Junction station between Motiganj and Jhilahi railway stations at around 2:37 pm on Thursday under the jurisdiction of…
NEW DELHI: The security forces on Thursday killed two terrorists in an anti-infiltration operation along the Line of Control (LoC) in Keran sector of Jammu and Kashmir‘s Kupwara district. “An Infiltration attempt has been successfully prevented with the elimination of two terrorists today on #LoC in Keran Sector, #Kupwara,” said an official statement by the…
