NEW DELHI — Delhi police has found that Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwini Upadhyay had connections with the men who raised anti-Muslim threats at a demonstration in Jantar Mantar on August 8. While Upadhyay and five others had been arrested two days after the crime took place, Upadhyay who has been a BJP spokesperson has […]
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday paid his tributes to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his death anniversary at the ‘Sadaiv Atal’ Samadhi in the national capital. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders were also present at the memorial. […]
NEW DELHI — The Congress on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of only making announcements about schemes in his Independence Day speeches and not implementing them, even as it hit out at him for not withdrawing the three agri laws against which the farmers have been protesting. Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said for […]
NEW DELHI — President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said Parliament is the “temple of the country’s democracy” which provides the highest forum to discuss, debate and decide issues for the well-being of people, remarks that came against the backdrop of the recent ruckus and continuous disruptions that led to the abrupt adjournment of the […]
NEW DELHI — The Uttar Police Police has arrested a 24-year-old man from the state’s Saharanpur district for allegedly hacking into the Election Commission of India (ECI) website and creating over 10,000 fake voter IDs, officials said on Friday. Reacting to the developments, the poll panel said its database is “absolutely safe and secure”. The […]
NEW DELHI— “Corrupt local police officers” were suspected to have scouted the Pathankot airbase before the terror attack at the IAF facility in 2016 and one of them identified a no-surveillance spot which was used by the raiders to heave ammunition, grenades, mortars, and AK-47s, a new book has claimed. This claim has been made by journalists Adrian […]
NEW DELHI — With a tumultuous Parliament session ending with unruly scenes, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said the Chair in both Houses was “not as neutral as it should be” and asserted that the last-day pandemonium in Rajya Sabha started because the government tried to pass a legislation by “stealth” by going […]
NEW DELHI — A right-wing Hindu organisation in Uttar Pradesh, Kranti Sena, organised a group of men in Muzaffarnagar to conduct a “surprise drive” to ensure Muslims were not putting mehendi on Hindu women’s hands on Hariyali Teej. According to the Times of India, the group also asked shopkeepers not to employ Muslim hairdressers. “On […]
LUCKNOW — A 45-year-old Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur town was paraded through a street, assaulted and made to chant “Jai Shri Ram” slogans on Wednesday. He was eventually handed over to the police. Distressing footage of the incident shot by locals shows the man’s little daughter clinging on to him and begging the […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi Police has suspended the station house officer (SHO) of Adarsh Nagar police station, C. P. Bhardwaj, a week after he prevented a group of Hindutva activists from harassing a maulvi of a mazar on a flyover in Delhi. A video of the incident was widely viewed and commented about on […]