Alleged gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who is in remand of Delhi Police, has reportedly confessed to having ordered the killing of Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu alias Sidhu Moosewala. Bishnoi has told investigators that his gang members, including Canada-based Goldy Brar, hatched a conspiracy and killed Sidhu Moosewala, officials said on Friday.The confession in front of […]
Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Thursday joined the BJP in Gujarat, two weeks after quitting the Congress.The move comes months ahead of the Gujarat Assembly election, where the BJP seeks to retain power. Polls to the 182-member House are due by the end of this year. Speaking to reporters later, Patel, once a vocal critic […]
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday tested positive for covid-19, ahead of the June 8 Enforcement Directorate summons in the National Herald money-laundering case. Gandhi, 75, developed covid symptoms on Wednesday and has isolated on medical advice, Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala said on Thursday. Surjewala said Sonia would attend the June 8 summons and […]
Terrorists shot dead a bank employee from Rajasthan in Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Thursday, the eighth targeted killing in the Valley since May 1 and the third of a non-Muslim government employee. Vijay Kumar, a manager with the Ellaqui Dehati Bank at Areh Mohanpora branch in the south Kashmir district, received grievous gunshot injuries on […]
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi who was seeking appropriate directions for not handing over his custody to the Punjab police in the singer Sidhu Moosewala murder case. Bishnoi, who is suspected to be involved in Moosewala’s killing, had moved this high court Wednesday after […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Punjab government on Thursday informed the Punjab and Haryana high court that the earlier withdrawn security of 400-odd protectees will be restored on June 7. The development comes days after singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moose Wala, whose security cover was downgraded, was shot dead. The state government told the […]
A 20-year-old visually impaired woman was allegedly raped by a man she sought help in crossing a road on May 25 near Sitapuri bus stand in New Delhi’s Dwarka, deputy police commissioner Shankar Choudhary said on Thursday. Choudhary said the woman was to de-board a bus at Vikaspuri but got down at the Sitapuri stand. […]
The foreign ministers of India and Canada held a telephonic conversation on Wednesday ahead of a potential bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau this month. That meeting is yet to be finalised but, if it does occur, will be on the margins of either the Commonwealth Heads of […]
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram expressed concern over “no sign of promised” recovery after the National Statistical Officer (NSO) provisional estimates put India’s GDP growth for the last quarter of the financial year 2021-22 at 4.1%, 0.7 percentage points lower than the February projections. The former Union minister said that the “most striking graph” of […]
The Delhi Police on Tuesday reportedly obtained the custody of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, named as a suspect in the daylight murder of Punjabi singer-cum-politician for five days. According to sources, the Special Cell of the Delhi Police will interrogate Bishnoi in connection with the murder. Earlier in the day, Bishnoi moved the Delhi high […]