NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Monday attacked Congress leader P Chidambaram’s statement that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA) and the three new criminal laws will be revoked if Congress comes to office, calling it as a brazen act of appeasement and the former finance minister’s party has lost nerve after seeing the…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday reviewed the operational situation and military preparedness in the Siachen Glacier-Saltoro Ridge region, dubbing it “India’s capital of courage, grit and determination” just as Delhi was the national capital and Mumbai the financial one.“We are leading a peaceful life as we have an assurance that our brave…
SHIVAMOGGA/HUBBALLI: Facing tough questions over handling of MCA student Neha Hiremath’s murder on BVB College campus in Hubballi, Karnataka govt Monday decided to hand over the probe to CID and set up a special court to fast-track the trial.Neha (24), daughter of Hubballi-Dharwad Congress corporator Niranjan Hiremath, was stabbed to death on Thursday by Fayaz…
SRINAGAR: Terrorists killed a Territorial Army soldier’s brother Monday night, firing multiple shots at his home in Kunda village near Sharda Sharief of Thanamandi in Jammu division’s Rajouri district.Sources said 40-year-old Mohammad Razak, who worked in the social welfare department, suffered critical bullet wounds and died while being transported to a nearby hospital.The attack, believed…
NEW DELHI: Professor Naima Khatoon, Professor/ Principal, Women’s College has been appointed as the new vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Monday. She became the first woman VC in the history of 123-year-old university. With this AMU became the third central university to get its first women VC, after Jamia Millia Islamia and…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday alleged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of making a false claim about the rise in poverty in the country and urged the Election Commission to take “strict action” against him.Lodging a complaint with the poll panel, the saffron party has also accused Gandhi of continuing to create…
NEW DELHI: Eight polling stations across the Arunachal Pradesh have been marked for repolling after the Election Commission of India declared the initial polling void. The EC has taken decisive action in response to reports of EVM damage and violence during polling in the state.Deputy chief electoral officer Liken Koyu announced that fresh polling will…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday called the Calcutta high court order cancelling appointments of teachers made through 2016 recruitment test “illegal” and alleged that BJP leaders have been influencing judiciary and judgments. “We will stand by those who lost jobs,” Mamata said and added that the Trinamool government will challenge…
NEW DELHI: The opposition on Monday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his ‘illegal immigrants‘ remarks made at an election rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara on Sunday. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that BJP was trying to ‘divert from real issues’ while Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said PM Modi had become ‘disillusioned.’PM Modi, while…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday rejected a PIL seeking direction to grant ‘extraordinary interim bail‘ to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in all the criminal cases.A division bench of acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, upon dismissal of the PIL fined the petitioner with Rs 75,000.The bench headed…
