NEW DELHI: Shahi Jama Masjid committee president Zafar Ali was arrested on Sunday in connection with the violence that erupted in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal on November 24 last year over a court-ordered survey of the mosque. Sambhal Superintendent of Police Krishan Kumar Bishnoi confirmed to PTI that Ali had been arrested but did not elaborate…
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted four terror operatives of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist organisation in the 2024 Chandigarh grenade attack case, officials said on Sunday.As per a release by the NIA, the chargesheet filed before the Special NIA Court in Chandigarh includes Pakistan-based designated individual terrorist Harwinder Singh Sandhu…
A day after the Supreme Court made the unprecedented move of publically releasing a comprehensive report detailing allegations against Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court, following a fire incident at his residence on March 14 that resulted in the alleged discovery of unaccounted cash, videos are surfacing online of burnt currency notes that…
Rupjyoti Kurmi (ANI photo) NEW DELHI:Assam BJP has directed its MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi to apologise to the public after he was seen lunging at opposition members and hurling abuses in the state assembly on Friday. Party president Dilip Saikia called his actions undemocratic and against party values. Kurmi, a former Congress leader, has already apologised…
Kapil Sibal (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal on Sunday urged the opposition INDIA bloc to present itself as a united front rather than appearing disjointed to the public. In an interview with news agency PTI, Sibal highlighted the importance of establishing a formal framework with designated spokespersons,…
File Photo: An anti-Naxal operation in progress NEW DELHI: The Chhattisgarh cabinet has approved a new ‘Chhattisgarh Naxal Surrender/Victim Relief and Rehabilitation Policy-2025’ for Maoist violence victims and to facilitate reintegration into the society of surrendered Maoists, according to an official.The policy extends rehabilitation and legal assistance to surrendered Maoists to begin afresh, the official…
NEW DELHI: India will see a generational shift in mobile broadband with 5G traffic set to overtake 4G usage in the first quarter of next year, led by the rapid expansion of the high-speed networks across the country and the fast-growing device ecosystem.According to the annual Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT) report by Nokia, while average…
Delhi HC judge Yashwant Varma NEW DELHI: Delhi high court judge Yashwant Varma has strongly denied allegations that a large sum of burnt currencyy was recovered from his official residence after a recent fire incident.In a lengthy letter to Delhi high court’s chief justice, Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, Justice Varma called the claims “baseless” and “preposterous”,…
BJP held black-flag protests Saturday across 68,000 booths in Tamil Nadu to protest CM MK Stalin‘s meeting with opposition figures on delimitation of constituencies. Amid protests, state party president K Annamalai called the meeting a “political drama by DMK to divert attention of people from “corruption, deteriorating law and order and burning inter-state issues”. In…
ISLAMABAD: A shutters-down strike gripped Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province on Saturday as clashes between protesters and security forces rocked Quetta, the provincial capital, leaving at least three dead and several injured.The unrest erupted after the arrest of Dr Mahrang Baloch, the defiant face of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), an ethnic rights group, and…
