NEW DELHI — The veteran journalist and group editor of National Herald, Zafar Agha, passed away at the age of 70 at Fortis Hospital in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi after brief illness on Friday, PTI reported. Agha was born in 1954 at Allahabad and did Masters in English Literature from Allahabad University. Agha began his […]
NEW DELHI — Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday night in an excise policy-linked money laundering case, officials said, as reported by PTI. The arrest, the first of a sitting chief minister, came hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant protection to the AAP national […]
AHMEDABAD — The police have arrested two men and are looking for more after students hailing from different foreign countries were assaulted allegedly by a group of persons in the Gujarat University hostel in Ahmedabad for offering namaz there, police said on Sunday. Two students one from Sri Lanka and another from Tajikistan were hospitalised […]
AHMEDABAD — Five international students were injured after a mob stormed a Gujarat University hostel last night and attacked students from African countries, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, allegedly for offering namaz. The students have said that there is no mosque on the campus, so they had gathered inside the hostel to offer taraweeh – a namaz […]
NEW DELHI — Petrol and diesel prices were cut by Rs 2 per litre each as state-owned oil companies ended a nearly two-year-long hiatus in rate revision, just hours before the general election schedule is announced. The revised price will be applicable from 6 am on Friday, March 15, the oil ministry said on Thursday […]
NEW DELHI — Former bureaucrats Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar have been named as the new election commissioners by a panel chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, committee member and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Thursday. Addressing reporters at his residence soon after the meeting ended, Chowdhury said six names came up […]
NEW DELHI — Hours after the Government of India (GoI) notified the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), protests erupted on the Jamia Millia Islamia Campus while the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) issued an advisory appealing to students to remain vigilant and maintain peace and harmony on campus, PTI reported. A group of students […]
NEW DELHI — The Government of India (GoI) on Monday announced the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which aims to facilitate the granting of citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The law enables granting of citizenship to citizens of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Christian, Buddhist […]
NEW DELHI — Election Commissioner Arun Goel resigned on Saturday, days before the expected announcement of the schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. His tenure was till December 2027. According to a law ministry notification, Goel’s resignation has been accepted by President Droupadi Murmu with effect from Saturday. It was not immediately known why […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi Police on Friday suspended a sub-inspector for allegedly kicking a few people offering namaz on a road in north Delhi’s Inderlok area on Friday, police said. The incident happened during the ‘Asar ki namaz’ around 2 pm near Inderlok Metro Station. Locals in response blocked the road and demanded action […]