On Monday, a Nagpur court sentenced former BrahMos aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwal to life imprisonment in a ruling of huge security implications. He was convicted under the Official Secrets Act for passing on classified information to the ISI of Pakistan. M.V. Deshpande, a district judge from Nagpur, sentenced Agarwal to 14 years in strict imprisonment […]
A critical breakthrough has been made in the case involving murder of former Dera Sacha Sauda manager Ranjit Singh, as Punjab high court pronounced Dera founder Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh not guilty in that case. The ruling came following an appeal lodged by Gurmeet Ram Rahim against his earlier conviction in the same court. The […]
In a recent move, Yes Bank and ICICI Bank have been penalized by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ensuring fairness in banking. In the former case, a penalty of Rs 91 lakh imposed on Yes Bank because they were charging on zero-balance accounts as well as some other matters which were unspecified. The latter […]
The Supreme Court of India declined to hear an urgent request filed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for an extension of bail in the Delhi Excise Policy case. The plea has been transferred to Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud, who will now decide on the listing of Kejriwal’s request for an extension […]
On Monday, the Gurugram Police arrested Bobby Kataria, a popular social media influencer, in connection with an global human trafficking syndicate. Kataria’s house at Sector 109 in Gururgam was raided by the Gurugram Police alongside the National Investigation Agency (NIA) leading to his arrest. Authorities reportedly recovered numerous suspicious documents and a significant amount of […]
A Varanasi-bound IndiGo flight faced a bomb threat early Tuesday morning at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. The incident caused significant alarm but ended without any harm and even thorough searches revealed no suspicious items. Flight number 6E2211 should have departed at 5:00 in the morning. It had 176 passengers on board but security concerns […]
A three-member committee has been constituted by the Maharashtra government for the investigation of Porsche car accident, after two doctors and a staff member of Sassoon General Hospital have been detained. On Monday, Rajiv Nivatkar, the Commissioner of Medical Education, issued an official order according to which a new committee chaired by Dr. Pallavi Sapale. […]
The cyclone that swept through West Bengal and Bangladesh on Sunday is now considerably weaker as it heads into the interior; and even though the immediate danger seems to be diminishing, the governments of these two nations have intensified their actions towards relief aid in order to evaluate the magnitude of the catastrophe and reach […]
A fire ripped through a private neonatal care facility in East Delhi’s Vivek Vihar early Sunday, killing 6 newborns. The fire is suspected to have been caused by a short circuit. The shocking incident revealed several lapses in safety protocols. The facility, Baby Care New Born Hospital, was operating despite its registration expiring two months […]
In view of grave health grounds, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi Shri Arvind Kejriwal has requested to extend his interim bail by seven days, and adjourned his hearing till May 6,2021. He was initially granted interim bail upto June 1, to campaign for 2014 Lok Sabha election. However, during this time, he called it necessary […]