The CBI on Tuesday launched searches at 30 locations in Punjab as part of its probe into allegations of corruption against Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials who procured inferior grains to benefit merchants and rice millers, officials said. The CBI teams started coordinated raids on the premises of grain merchants, rice mill owners, and […]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday was conducting raids across the nation at more than 70 locations belonging to gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi, Neeraj Bawana and their aides.The raids were conducted in Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh. The raids started early Tuesday morning and are currently going on.Lawrence Bishnoi was […]
Worried about losing control of party funds, the Uddhav Thackeray faction on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to stay the Election Commission’s order to recognise the Eknath Shinde faction as the official Shiv Sena.On behalf of the Uddhav Thackeray faction, senior counsel Kapil Sibal mentioned it before a Bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud for […]
The Congress on Monday staged a walkout in the Budget Session of the Haryana Assembly against continuation of minister Sandeep Singh.They demanded that Singh should resign and also raised anti-government slogans. The CM asserted that his resignation would not be sought. Speaker Gian Chand Gupta said till the time the inquiry was pending, they could […]
The Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena on Monday moved the Supreme Court against the Election Commission’s decision to give the Shiv Sena symbol ‘bow and arrow’ to the Shinde faction.On behalf of the Uddav faction, senior counsel AM Singhvi mentioned it before a Bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud for urgent listing. The […]
The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it would press for death penalty to 11 convicts whose sentences in the 2002 Godhra train-burning case were commuted to life imprisonment by the state’s high court.A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala also fixed the bail pleas […]
In Sydney, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said that India had made big changes in its foreign policy and also emphasized on change in American thinking towards the largest democracy. He said: “This is not the same US with which we dealt with in the 1960s or 80s or even 2005 (the year both countries […]
India’s wildlife diversity has received a boost with 12 cheetahs arriving in Madhya Pradesh from South Africa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said.The 12 cheetahs arrived on Saturday and were released into quarantine enclosures at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district, five months after the first batch of eight of these fastest […]
The Union Government has announced the release of the entire pending GST compensation of Rs 16,982 crore for June 2022 to states. The Centre will release the amount from its own resources and it will be recouped from future compensation cess collections, said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while briefing the media after the 49th […]
Prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind has termed as “inhuman” and “barbaric” the alleged abduction and murder of two men by cow vigilantes in Rajasthan, and sought a judicial inquiry into the matter.Charred bodies of Nasir (25) and Junaid alias Juna (35), residents of Ghatmeeka village in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, were found inside a burnt […]