NEW DELHI— “Convict him or acquit him,” an anguished Supreme Court observed on non-framing of charges on an accused jailed for 11 years over serial blasts in multiple Rajdhani Express and other trains in 1993. Underlining the right to speedy trial, the top court sought a report from the special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) […]
NEW DELHI — Flights between India and Bangladesh will resume from September 3, 2021. The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) said that passenger airlines can resume operations after four months under an air bubble agreement signed by the two countries last year. Air travel services between destinations of the two countries were suspended as Covid-19 […]
NEW DELHI — People across India are demanding justice for the teenage girl who was shot dead while she recorded the man beating up her father, officials said on Thursday. Kajal Singh, aged around 17, was shot by one Vijay Prajapati, who entered her house and was beating up her father Raju Nayan Singh over […]
NEW DELHI — Commenting on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that the changing equation in Afghanistan has come out as a challenge for the India. He added that the scenario has led the country to change its strategy. “The changing equation in Afghanistan is a challenge for us. […]
Ujjain (MP) — Police on Sunday arrested two persons for forcing a scrap dealer to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in Mahidpur block of the district, officials said. Videos showing two persons forcing a scrap dealer to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and also throwing his belongings on the road went viral on social media on Sunday. […]
NEW DELHI — The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has extended the ban on international scheduled commercial passenger flights to and from India, which was scheduled to end on August 31. The ban is now extended till September 30. “In partial modification of circular dated 26-06-2020, the competent authority has further extended the validity […]
CHANDIGARH — Malvinder Singh Mali on Friday, August 27, quit as adviser to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. The resignation came a day after the party threatened to dismiss him over his controversial remarks, if Sidhu failed to remove him. However, Mali did not term it as a “resignation”. In a statement posted on […]
LUCKNOW (UP) — The Allahabad High Court on Thursday quashed the decision of the Aligarh Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) to accept the police chargesheet against suspended Gorakhpur paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan in a hate speech case, the Indian Express reported. The case for which the chargesheet was filed in the CJM court was lodged against […]
NEW DELHI — Filing of sedition cases when regimes change is a disturbing trend, the Supreme Court said on Thursday, granting protection from arrest to a suspended senior IPS officer against whom two criminal cases for offence of sedition and amassing disproportionate assets have been filed by the Chhattisgarh government. A bench headed by Chief […]
BENGALURU — In a striking portrayal of communal harmony, Hindus in Harlapur village in Karnataka have observed Muharram for the past eleven years. The village has a population of 3,500 people, of which not a single person is a Muslim. Harlapur village in Saundatti Taluk doesn’t have a single Muslim family, yet Hindu residents willingly […]