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Muslim women ‘auction’ app creator held in Delhi
Delhi Police today detained a Madhya Pradesh man who is the alleged creator of the application ‘Sulli Deals’. The app, which was launched last year, had listed Muslim women for ‘auction’ with photographs sourced without permission and doctored. The accused, Aumkareshwar Thakur, was apprehended by the Intelligence Fusion and...
Cong ready to take support of any party to defeat BJP: Chidambaram
The Congress is ready to accept the support of any party that is keen to defeat the BJP in the upcoming Goa Assembly elections, senior leader P Chidambaram said on Saturday. His statement has come shortly after Trinamool Congress Party’s Goa desk in-charge Mahua Moitra suggested that the...
Nitin Gadkari disowns Haridwar hate assembly speeches
New Delhi: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said the recent hate speeches — as happened at religious conclaves in Haridwar and Delhi — should be “negated and given no importance”. In such cases, the law should be allowed to take its course, he told NDTV in an exclusive...
BJP forms ‘Mandir Prakoshth’ to woo Brahmins before polls
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has established a mandir prakoshth (temple cell) to woo the Brahmin community ahead of the crucial Assembly elections this year and the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Senior party leaders said the panel, formed after a “suggestion” from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, came into being...
Foreign funds licence for Mother Teresa’s charity restored
New Delhi: The FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) licence for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity was restored Saturday, two weeks after the Home Ministry cited “adverse inputs” to refuse a renewal request by the Kolkata-based organisation. The loss of the license – needed to receive funding from abroad – left...
Video of C’garh villagers vowing to boycott Muslims goes viral
Bhopal: A video from a Chhattisgarh village is being widely circulated where villagers can be seen taking a pledge to boycott Muslims. The police said they have traced the person who organised it, but have not found the involvement of any political party or religious group “We Hindus will...
21% spike in covid cases, positivity rate at 9%
New Delhi: India reported 1,41,986 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, a week after the country crossed the 10,000 mark, as the virus continued to spread at an unprecedented pace, largely driven by the Omicron variant now present in 27 states. With a single-day jump of 64 Omicron cases, India...
Security lapse: Supreme Court wants PM travel records preserved
New Delhi: On a massive security breach that left Prime Minister Narendra Modi stuck on a highway in Punjab for 20 minutes on Wednesday, the Supreme Court today directed that his travel records be preserved. The Punjab and Haryana High Court’s Registrar General has been asked to “keep all records...
Punjab tells Centre probe panel’s report in 3 days
New Delhi: On Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security breach in Bathinda, the Punjab government told Centre today that a probe panel has been formed on the issue. The probe panel will submit its report within 3 days, Punjab further told Centre. Yesterday, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi dialled Congress...
Big SC relief for doctors for NEET-PG admissions
New Delhi: Medical admissions will resume after a four-month delay with the Supreme Court today clearing 27 per cent reservation for OBC (other backward classes) and 10 per cent for EWS (economically weaker sections) categories for this year. The Rs 8 lakh income criteria for students from poorer...
Sidhu’s jibe at PM’s 15-minute ‘trouble’
New Delhi: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu aimed a jibe at the BJP over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security breach, saying he was “troubled” only by a 15-minute wait. The farmers, he said, had to wait for more than a year to get the farm laws scrapped. The...
13 Covid +ve passengers from Italy flee from Amritsar hospital
New Delhi: 13 passengers who tested positive for Covid after landing in Amritsar earlier today have run away from the hospital, authorities said. They allegedly tricked the health officials and fled, they said this evening. The patients were admitted to Amritsar’s Guru Nanak Dev Hospital. “We will initiate proceedings...
Home ministry panel to probe PM security lapses
New Delhi: A three-member committee will probe the “serious lapses in the security arrangements” during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab on Wednesday, the Union Home Ministry said today. The lapses in PM’s security “led to the exposure of the VVIP to grave security risk,” the Home Ministry...
Non-bailable warrant against Raj Thackeray in 2008 case
A local court in Parli of Maharashtra’s Beed district has issued a non-bailable warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for failing to appear before it in a 2008 case registered against him. A case was registered against Thackeray and MNS activists under sections 143 (unlawful...
Pakistan gets its first female Supreme Court judge
Islamabad: Pakistan has confirmed the appointment of the first female Supreme Court judge in the Muslim-majority nation’s history, members of the ruling party said on Thursday. A commission that decides on the promotion of judges on Thursday voted to make 55-year-old Justice Ayesha Malik the first female judge on...
SC hearing tomorrow on plea in PM security breach
New Delhi: Controversy over security lapses surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab reached the Supreme Court, with the matter likely to be heard tomorrow. The state has set up a high-level team that will file a report in three days. A senior advocate, Maninder Singh, filed a...
Akhilesh cancels Ayodhya Vijay Rath Yatra over Covid spike
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party’s Vijay Rath Yatra in Ayodhya, scheduled for January 9, has been cancelled as Covid cases continue to rise fuelled by the Omicron variant. Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has also called off his other rallies in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda and Basti on January 7 and January...
Naqvi ridicules UPA Govt’s 15-point plan for Muslims
Union minister of minority affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said that the ‘PM’s 15-Point Programme’ based on the Sachar Committee recommendations was just an eyewash by the UPA government. The minister made the comment during an exclusive conversation with News18 Urdu’s Khurram Ali Shahzad. Naqvi asked when and where injustice...
