LUCKNOW — Renowned Urdu poet Munawwar Rana died due to a cardiac arrest at the SGPGI Hospital in Lucknow on Sunday night. He was 71. The poet had been battling with prolonged illness for the past several months and was undergoing treatment at the SGPGI Hospital. He was suffering from cancer, kidney and heart-related ailments. […]
NEW DELHI — Mahatma Gandhi was a great strategist who used soft power to defeat a much stronger adversary, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said on Friday. Speaking at the launch of veteran journalist and former Union minister M J Akbar’s book ‘Gandhi, A Life in Three Campaigns’, he said, “Power is your ability to […]
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Friday extended by five days the police custody of alleged Hizbul Mujahideen militant Javaid Ahmad Matoo, claimed to be involved in 11 militant attack cases in Jammu and Kashmir. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Nabeela Wali extended Matoo’s custody after he was produced before the court on expiry of the […]
LUCKNOW — Two former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students carrying a reward of ₹25,000 each were arrested by the UP ATS on Monday for their alleged links with the IS. The duo was identified as Amas alias Faraz Ahmed (22), resident of Aligarh and Abdul Samad Malik (25), resident of Sambhal. ATS officials said they […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM — Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday came out with a slew of suggestions, including laws to regulate ownership of news organisations by a political or business entity, to ensure responsible journalism and a free press in the country. Speaking at the N Ramachandran Foundation award ceremony here, the Thiruvananthapuram MP said India was […]
NEW DELHI — Supreme Court on Monday quashed the remission of 11 convicts in the Bikis Bano gangrape case and the murder of her family members, by the Gujarat government. It stated that it was not under the territory of Gujarat that the sentence was passed and the accused were convicted. The convicts will have […]
BAREILLY — Mufti Shahabuddin Razvi the Bareilly-based national president of All India Muslim Jamaat, has said that “Muslims in India have no reason to fear CAA”. This comes days after government agencies announced that rules of Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 will be notified before the Lok Sabha elections. “After a detailed analysis of the provisions […]
KOLKATA — West Bengal minister and senior TMC leader Chandrima Bhattacharya on Sunday filed a police complaint against BJP leader Amit Malviya for allegedly making ‘defamatory’ remarks against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Bhattacharya’s police complaint was in response to Malviya’s post on X where he claimed that absconding TMC leader Sahajahan Sheikh, the […]
CHANDIGARH — Foreign-made weapons, about 300 cartridges, Rs 5 crore cash and more than 100 liquor bottles have been recovered during searches conducted by the Enforcement Directorate against former INLD MLA Dilbag Singh and his associates, official sources said on Friday. The central agency had launched raids against the former legislator and Congress MLA from […]
NEW DELHI — The mosque committee has moved the Supreme Court challenging a recent Allahabad High Court order that allowed a court-monitored survey of the Shahi Idgah adjoining the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple in Mathura. The high court, on December 14 last year, had agreed to the appointment of a court commissioner to oversee the survey […]