The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to constitute a special bench to hear a plea by Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped during the 2002 Gujarat riots, against the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the case.A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala assured Bano, represented through her […]
Strong earthquake tremors were felt in northern India including the Delhi-NCR region. Panic-stricken people rushed out of buildings as the earthquake struck around 10.20 pm and was also felt in Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. People in Delhi-NCR, Chandigarh and towns across Punjab moved out of buildings after they felt tremors. According to reports, the earthquake […]
Radical preacher Amritpal Singh’s uncle Harjit Singh was brought to Assam by the Punjab Police on Tuesday morning, a senior official said.Harjit Singh, who was moved to the Dibrugarh jail by road from Guwahati, is the fifth person linked to Amritpal’s ‘Waris Punjab De’ (WPD) to be brought to the northeastern state, he said. A […]
The UK government will take the security of the Indian High Commission here “seriously”, top British officials have said as they condemned as “disgraceful” and “completely unacceptable” the vandalism at the mission by a group of protesters waving separatist Khalistani flags.The Tricolour flying atop the Indian High Commission was grabbed at by the protesters chanting […]
Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 2pm on Monday amid ruckus in the House over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s democracy remarks.As soon as the proceedings started, members of the treasury benches began raising the issue. Opposition members, including those from the Congress, also began shouting slogans demanding a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the […]
The Punjab government has further extended the suspension of Internet services in the state till noon of March 21.Internet services were suspended in the state on March 18 till March 19 noon following police crackdown on ‘Waris Punjab De’ head Amritpal Singh and his supporters. The suspension was later extended till March 20 noon.
Congress leaders have criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government following Delhi Police’s arrival at Rahul Gandhi’s 12, Tughlaq Lane residence over a case related to his speech during Bharat Jodo Yatra. Delhi Police earlier sent notice to the Wayanad MP seeking information on the speech he made over ‘sexual harassment’ victims during the […]
As efforts are underway to nab pro-Khalistan ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh, an alleged advisor and financer of the “fugitive” has been arrested, central agency sources informed.As per the sources, Daljeet Singh Kalsi alias Sarabjeet Singh Kalsi, who is an alleged advisor and financer of Amritpal Singh, has been arrested by the authorities. This […]
The highly-decomposed body of a 66-year-old man from Mauritius was found close to an underpass in the Geeta Colony area here, police said on Saturday.The deceased has been identified as Bagwath Lutchmee, a resident of Mauritius, they added. Lutchmee came to India on February 6 on a tourist visa and his body was found on […]
India never halted trade relations with Pakistan and wants to move towards normalising business ties, a senior Indian diplomat here has said, stressing that today’s diplomacy focuses on tourism, trade and technology because “money speaks its own language”.Suresh Kumar, India’s Deputy High Commissioner to Pakistan, made these remarks on Friday while speaking at the Lahore […]