Sajjan Kumar was sevring life imprisonment in Delhi’s Tihar Jail NEW DELHI: The BJP on Friday hit back at the Congress after several of its leaders paid tribute to former party leader Sajjan Kumar, a convict in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, who died at 80.Congress MP Deepender Hooda described the death of Kumar, a…
Seafarers take cover as small boats surround vessel in Hormuz The Federation of Seafarers and Indian Seafarers Union (FSUI) has released an old video showing a vessel carrying 22 crew members, including 21 Indians, coming under attack in the Strait of Hormuz on April 22.The footage shows several small boats surrounding the vessel, an RPG…
Heavy rains trigger landslides in Kheri village, residents say several houses damaged (Image: ANI) JAMMU: Nearly a dozen families have been forced to take shelter in tents after subsidence damaged several houses and sparked panic in Kheri village on the outskirts of Jammu city.“It has become scary to live in a structure on the verge…
Panchayat poll process in Ladakh announced SRINAGAR: A day after a meeting between Ladakh representatives and officials of ministry of home affairs, the Ladakh administration Thursday announced that the govt was taking steps to address the democratic vacuum in the Union Territory and, to begin with, it would recommend to the Election Commission to initiate…
SC retains broad definition of ‘industry’ NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench on Thursday settled a decades-old debate over the appropriateness of its 1978 ruling giving an expansive definition to “industry” to protect workmen against arbitrary retrenchment, and said it would apply to all organisations, including govt public works agencies, temples, hospitals and NGOs,…
SC flags ‘serious flaws’ in UP Gangsters Act, warns of misuse against innocents NEW DELHI: Pointing out various flaws in Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, Supreme Court on Thursday said the law is prone to misuse as there is no safeguard against vindictive and malicious action against innocents.A bench of Justices J…
Rahul Gandhi asks Congress to track leaders’ social media push on social justice issues NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have asked the party to monitor social media of functionaries if they are amplifying the party line on social justice issues.The direction came after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge at CWC meeting Wednesday…
Shah targets Congress over Vande Mataram stance, vows BJP campaign in Parliament and states New Delhi: Upping the ante against Congress’s decision to stick to singing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram, home minister Amit Shah on Thursday exhorted people to rally against the opposition party’s stand and said BJP will take its campaign to…
Encroachment removed outside the Pakistan high commission in Delhi (Credit: Rajesh Mehta) NEW DELHI: Indian authorities removed queue liners outside the Pakistan high commission visa section along with other encroachment on a lane outside the boundary of the compound. The action Wednesday followed removal of parking poles and security barricades outside the Indian high commission…
Congress’s post on BJP president Nitin Nabin ‘fabricated’ NEW DELHI: A day after Chhattisgarh Congress posted on social media pictures of BJP president Nitin Nabin having a meal with other party members in Andhra Pradesh and claimed he was consuming meat, BJP accused the party of putting out “fabricated and misleading” content due to its…
