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Chief Justice: biggest human right violations in police stations
New Delhi: The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the “highest in police stations”, Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana said at a function today, expressing concern about custodial torture. Calling human rights and dignity “sacrosanct”, he said, “custodial torture and other police atrocities are...
Delhi starts colour-coded Covid alert levels 1 To 4
New Delhi: Amid fears of a possible third wave of Covid infections, Delhi has put into force a graded action plan to tackle any surge in cases in the coming days. The national capital is the first city to enforce such a plan. The action plan, which lays down...
Tight security at Delhi airport after terrorist threat
New Delhi: Security has been increased at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport after a bomb threat email to Delhi Police cautioned about terrorist outfit Al Qaeda planning to attack the airport. As per an official statement by the airport, after investigation the threat was found “non-specific” and Bomb Threat...
Trinamool alleges leaders hurt in Tripura attack
Agartala/Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress on Saturday alleged that two of its youth leaders from West Bengal were injured when their vehicle was allegedly attacked by BJP activists in Tripura’s Dhalai district. Following the incident, Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, who is West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew...
Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account temporarily blocked
The Congress on Saturday said its leader Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account had been “temporarily locked” after the social media platform countered the party’s claim that his handle had been “temporarily suspended” amid a controversy over the removal of an image posted by the MP a day ago. Rahul Gandhi’s...
Modi’s 3-day conclave to chart future course
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new council of ministers will hold a three-day conclave next week to chalk out an agenda for the remaining three years of the government’s term, sources said on Friday, as the government looks for ways to tackle simmering public resentment. For the first time since...
Bombay High Court rejects Kundra’s plea against arrest
Businessman Raj Kundra, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband, was today denied bail by the Bombay High Court in the porn film case in which he was arrested last month. He had challenged the remand order issued against him by a magistrate’s court saying he had not notified him before...
Fraud by Covid labs led to TPR error during Kumbh Mela
The Enforcement Directorate today searched the homes and offices of the top executives of five diagnostics firms for alleged money laundering in connection with a fake COVID-19 testing scam during the Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand. The Enforcement Directorate started investigation after a case was filed by the Uttarakhand Police....
India, China disengage in Gogra in Eastern Ladakh
India and China have agreed to disengage in eastern Ladakh’s Gogra region, restoring the Line of Actual Control in the area, the Indian Army said on Friday, in a major breakthrough after the latest round of talks between the two neighbours. After nearly 15 months of a face-off,...
Rahul Gandhi, others join Jantar Mantar farmers protest
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and leaders from 14 opposition parties staged a joint protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Friday to underline support for farmers agitating against the centre’s farm laws. Visuals from news agency ANI showed Mr Gandhi and the other leaders standing in a tight-knit group...
RBI keeps key lending rate unchanged
The Reserve Bank kept the repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent and retained the GDP growth target at 9.5 per cent as the country was “in a much better position compared to June 2021”. The RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das made the announcement at the end of the bi-monthly Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...
Supreme Court hearing crucial Pegasus petitions
The Supreme Court is hearing today a batch of petitions, including those filed by the Editors Guild of India, seeking a special probe into the Pegasus spyware scandal involving allegations that opposition leaders, journalists and others were targets. A two-member bench, headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, will hear...
A day that will be etched in every Indian’s memory
Indian Men’s Team win over Germany to clinch Bronze at the Tokyo Olympics, thereby ending the long 41-year-wait for a podium finish, will be etched in the memory of every Indian, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today as he led the nation in congratulating the Hockey team over the...
India builds world’s highest road In eastern Ladakh
The Border Roads Organisation has constructed the world’s highest road in eastern Ladakh at an altitude of 19,300 feet, the government said in a statement today. The road has been constructed at an altitude higher than the Mount Everest base camps – the south base camp in Nepal is...
6 TMC Rajya Sabha MPs ordered to leave house
Six Trinamool Congress MPs were ordered to leave the Rajya Sabha for rest of the day over “grossly disorderly” conduct, after they entered the well of the house and displayed placards while protesting over the Pegasus scandal. The Rajya Sabha members are Dola Sen, Nadimul Haque, Abir Ranjan Biswas,...
Rahul Gandhi meets family of Dalit rape-murder victim
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday met the family of the nine-year-old Dalit girl who was raped and murdered in Delhi’s Cantonment area, and whose body was forcibly cremated by her attackers. Public fury has exploded over the horrific incident – the latest to highlight frighteningly high levels of...
Lalu meets Mulayam to discuss ‘politics in general’
New Delhi: Lalu Yadav, chief of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) met with former Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in the presence of the latter’s son and the current and party chief, Akhilesh Yadav. Sources say the meeting took place in New Delhi on Monday. Photographs of the meeting...
Modi launches e-RUPI, voucher-based digital payment solution
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched e-RUPI — the government’s digital payment solution meant to ensure delivery of welfare services, which, for now, will be used to push vaccination efforts. The platform will go live for the first time at a Covid vaccination centre in Mumbai. Developed...
