Several persons are feared dead as a taxi-van rolled down a deep gorge at Zoji La in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Thursday.The vehicle skid off the Srinagar-Leh National Highway and rolled down the gorge late on Wednesday night, they said. The Zojila Pass is at an altitude of about 3,400 metres. The taxi […]
The ED on Thursday raided multiple locations in Maharashtra as part of a money-laundering probe against state transport minister Anil Parab and others linked to alleged irregularities in a land deal in coastal Dapoli area of Ratnagiri district and other charges, officials said.Locations in Dapoli, Mumbai and Pune are being searched after the federal agency […]
Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court. Malik had earlier pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), in a terror funding case.The NIA had told Special Judge Praveen Singh in an in-chamber proceedings that Malik was responsible […]
The ED has registered a money-laundering case against Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and others in the alleged scam pertaining to the issuance of visa to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the home minister, officials said on Wednesday.The federal agency has filed its case under the criminal sections of the […]
Kapil Sibal on Wednesday filed the nomination for Rajya Sabha with the support of the Samajwadi Party in the presence of party chief Akhilesh Yadav at the party headquarters in Uttar Pradesh. The former MHRD minister said he had resigned from the Congress on May 16 and is an independent voice. Both Akhilesh Yadav and […]
A fresh plea has been in the Supreme Court challenging the Constitutional validity of certain sections of the Places of Worship (Special Provision) Act 1991, saying that it violated the principles of secularism and the rule of law. The plea has been filed by religious leader Swami Jeetendranand Saraswati, news agency ANI reported. The plea […]
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta on Wednesday said he has tied the knot with longtime partner Safeena Husain in an intimate ceremony in San Francisco, US.The 54-year-old filmmaker, known for films such as ‘Shahid’, ‘Aligarh’, ‘Omerta’ (2018) and series ‘Scam 1992’, shared the news of his marriage on his social media handles. “So after 17 years, two […]
A Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Wednesday is likely to pronounce the quantum of punishment awarded to Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, who was convicted in a terror funding case a few days ago.On May 19, Special Judge Praveen Singh posted the matter for May 25 to hear the arguments regarding the quantum […]
A teenage gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, the latest bout of gun-fueled mass murder in the United States and the nation’s worst school shooting in nearly a decade. The 18-year-old suspect, who was killed apparently by police, also had shot his own […]
A gritty Japan handed the defending champions India their first loss of the Hero Asia Cup on Tuesday.With Japan trouncing India 5-2 in their Pool A clash, India will now need to beat hosts Indonesia by a big margin and expect a favourable result in the Pakistan-Japan game on Thursday to stay in contention for […]