NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah Monday stressed the need to develop an intelligence coordination strategy with ‘friendly’ nations to detect anti-India outfits and networks and include offensive measures as part of this strategy.Delivering the 37th Intelligence Bureau centenary endowment lecture here, Shah underlined that just sharing information with friendly nations was not enough…
MEERUT: The Meerut division claims tribunal has ordered 69 identified people, accused of “damaging” public property during a violent protest against the Agnipath scheme in 2022, to pay an aggregate compensation of over Rs 12 lakh. The case relates to the violence that broke out in Aligarh’s Tappal police station area in June 2022. The…
NEW DELHI: The first meeting of the 39-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on ‘one nation, one election’ is scheduled for Jan 8, indicating the govt’s urgency in pushing forward the contentious proposal despite significant opposition.Sources said law ministry officials will brief the panel on key features of the bill, highlighting how the country will benefit.The…
MUMBAI: The passing of Shyam Benegal, the torchbearer of New Wave cinema, evoked a lament of loss across the film fraternity Monday night. It was Shyam Babu who discovered and mentored an entire generation of the finest natural actors including Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil and Om Puri, having fathered the parallel cinema movement…
NEW DELHI: In a first action of its kind, the pharma department has pulled up multinational AbbVie Healthcare for violating the Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices by taking 30 doctors to Paris and Monaco to improve their “knowledge” on popular anti-aging products Botox and Juvederm, and asked tax authorities to assess the liability of…
CHINSURAH (HOOGHLY): Rescued after he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists, Pramathes Ghosal, a 42-year-old private tutor from Dhaniakhali in Chinsurah subdivision of Bengal’s Hooghly district, was on Monday sentenced to death for brutally killing his elderly father, mother and married sister on Nov 8, 2021.Chinsurah trial judge Sanjay Kumar Sharma termed the…
KOCHI: At St Francis Church in Fort Kochi, history seems to have been dead, buried and forgotten. There is just a nondescript blue board at the church that reads, “Remembering Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator; he arrived in Cochin …where he died and was first buried”.On Tuesday, it will be 500 years since the man…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday said his govt had provided permanent govt jobs to nearly 10 lakh youth in the last one-and-a-half years alone, highlighting the Centre’s priority to maximise the potential of India’s youth.Speaking at a ‘Rozgar Mela‘ where he distributed over 71,000 appointment letters to new govt employees via videoconferencing, the…
PILIBHIT/GURDASPUR: Photographs of Gurvinder Singh, Jasanpreet Singh, and Varinder Singh – alleged operatives of the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) gunned down in UP on Monday – released by Punjab police, along with the images of their bodies after the encounter in Pilibhit, have raised questions about the sequence of events. The three men were killed…
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken possession of a flat in Thane that was registered in the name of a close associate of Iqbal Kaskar. This action is part of their ongoing money laundering investigation against him and his brother, Dawood Ibrahim.The ED alleged that Kaskar and his associates compelled a Thane builder to…
