Image credit: Manipur Police X account NEW DELHI: Manipur Police has installed 94 checkpoints and conducted search operations after to address the recent violence in Jiribam, state police said on Thursday.“Search operations and area domination were conducted by security forces in the fringe and vulnerable areas of hill and valley districts. Movement of 262 and…
NEW DELHI: An Indian-American body has urged US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump for an independent inquiry into the rising incidences of attack on minorities in Bangladesh. Raising apprehensions that the Indian neighbour is turning into a “radicalised Islamic state”, the group has called upon the two leaders to address the “imprisonment of…
NEW DELHI: Around 6.7 lakh SIM cards and 1.3 lakh IMEIs suspected to be linked to cybercrimes have been blocked by govt till Nov 15 this year, home ministry informed Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.Detailing the mechanisms put in place to deal with cybercrimes, junior home minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar said the central govt and telecom…
MUMBAI: Following the drubbing in the Maharashtra assembly polls, cracks have started appearing in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance as Shiv Sena (UBT)’s newly elected MLAs and functionaries have urged party chief Uddhav Thackeray to contest civic and local bodies elections independently, at least in cities where the party was a dominant force until…
The lawsuit bears similarity to the Gyanvapi case, involving multiple Hindu plaintiffs who contend that the mosque in Varanasi was built over the remains of a destroyed temple AJMER: A court in Rajasthan’s Ajmer issued notices Wednesday to the Union ministry of minority affairs and ASI on a lawsuit filed by a Hindu organisation laying…
NEW DELHI: Flagging a worrying trend of criminalisation of a soured consensual physical relationship, the Supreme Court has said a woman in an extramarital relationship for years cannot level rape charges against the man claiming that he had sex with her on the false promise of marriage.Quashing a seven-year-old FIR lodged by one Vanita S…
NEW DELHI: India is learnt to have tested a nuclear-capable submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), designed for a strike range of 3,500-km, from the newly commissioned nuclear-powered submarine INS Arighaat on Wednesday, reports Rajat Pandit.There was, however, no official word on the missile test that took place off Visakhapatnam in the Bay of Bengal in the…
NEW DELHI: The measure of hunger used in the Global Hunger Report-2024 index is “flawed” and doesn’t reflect India’s true position, govt told LS on Wednesday, while asserting it is making serious efforts to address the issue of malnutrition. India has been ranked 105 out of 127 countries in the study released by Concern Worldwide,…
Congress MP Hibi Eden (L) confers with BJP MP and Waqf Amendment Bill JPC chairman Jagdambika Pal at Parliament House on Wednesday NEW DELHI: After protests by opposition members on the panel, the Joint Parliamentary Committee scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill passed a resolution seeking extension of time for presentation of its report till the…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would direct persons accused under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to give an undertaking that they would not seek adjournments as a condition to grant them bail, in order to ensure they do not misuse the liberty by resorting to delaying tactics in trial…
