TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday formed a new officer bearers’ committee, reappointing her nephew Abhishek Banerjee as the party’s national general secretary and veteran leader Yashwant Sinha as its vice-president. Among others, TMC minister Aroop Biswas has been made the treasurer, and Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim the in-charge of coordination.Banerjee had last week dissolved […]
A local court on Friday declared three accused, including suspended IPS officer Dheeraj Setia, proclaimed offenders in a multi-crore heist case here. The court of Additional Sessions Judge Amit Sehrawat also ordered attachment of their properties under Section 83 of the Cr.P.C in order to secure their presence before the court. “Intimation in this regard […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hosted a delegation of eminent personalities and spiritual leaders from the Sikh community at his official residence here. The PM also took to Twitter to post a photograph of his meeting with Uday Singh from Sri Bhaini Sahib of Ludhiana, a spiritual leader of the Namdhari Sect. The meeting […]
The National Investigation Agency arrested decorated Himachal IPS officer Arvind Digvijay Negi in connection with its own investigation into Lashkar-e-Toiba’s “overground worker network”. Negi, a gallantry award winner who was investigated for having leaked information to Khurram Parvez, a human rights activist booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), had recently asked to be […]
The UP government has withdrawn the 274 notices issued to anti-CAA protesters for recovery of damages on account of alleged damage caused to public property. Senior counsel Garima Prashad told a Supreme Court bench led by Justice DY Chandrachud that all subsequent proceedings against them had also been withdrawn.Despite repeated requests by Prashad, the Bench […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday issued a lookout circular against Chitra Ramkrishna, the former CEO of the National Stock Exchange over alleged irregularities, news agency PTI reported. This comes a day after the income tax department raided the premises of Ramkrishna as part of a tax evasion investigation. As the agency reported, look-out […]
The central government is reviewing the security of former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas and may give him protection through a central agency, official sources said on February 18.The move came in the wake of Vishwas’ allegations against AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The move came in the wake of […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday took custody of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Kaskar from Thane jail in connection with a money laundering case registered against the don and his aides. An ANI input, citing ED sources, said Kaskar will be produced before a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act […]
A special court has denied bail to three persons accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, saying that the material on record suggests that the trio, along with other members of the CPI (Maoist), a banned organisation, hatched a “serious conspiracy” to create unrest in the country and to overthrow the Modi government. A letter […]
A special court on Friday awarded death sentence to 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case. There were 49 convicts in the case. The convicts had joined the proceedings through video conference from jails in Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Gaya, Bengaluru and other parts of the country. The court had on February 8, 2022, convicted […]