NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the plea of Enforcement Directorate seeking cancellation of bail granted to alleged West Bengal coal smuggling ‘kingpin’ Anup Majee and issued notice to him but it observed that the agency was dragging its feet as the probe was going on for the last six years.A bench…
NEW DELHI: CBI has filed an FIR and taken over the investigation into the murder of Chandranath Rath, former personal assistant to West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, reports Rajshekhar Jha. The agency has formed a seven-member SIT, headed by a DIG-rank officer, to probe the case. A meeting was held at the CBI headquarters in…
JAMMU: A court in Jammu on Monday remanded five people, including two Pakistani nationals, in 25-day judicial custody in an NIA case related to terror activities.Earlier, police probing logistical support for terror activities had intercepted a bike in Srinagar and seized a grenade and 15 bullets from the possession of Mohammad Naqeeb Bhat.His interrogation led…
NEW DELHI: Amid reports that China provided tech assistance to Pakistan in the military conflict that followed India’s Op Sindoor last year, the govt urged China to introspect about the likely reputational cost of backing terrorist infrastructure. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that the reports had only corroborated what was already known.“Operation Sindoor…
SRINAGAR: PDP’s Iltija Mufti, the daughter of former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti, Tuesday blamed the governing NC for the suspension of her social media accounts, alleging that the party was acting in collusion with the BJP to target its critics.“X has withheld my account. Usually, they send an email, but in my case, there has…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar will host his Iranian counterpart Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Friday for bilateral talks, hoping to address some of India’s concerns related to energy and connectivity. While the ministers have spoken on multiple occasions since the conflict in the West Asia region started on February 28, this will be their first…
Tamil Nadu chief minister Vijay In 2019, 17 Karnataka MLAs – 14 from the Congress and 3 from the JD(S) – resigned from the assembly, bringing down the then HD Kumaraswamy government. The resignations paved the way for BJP’s Yediyurappa to take over as state’s chief minister.Interestingly, in this change of guard the resignations were…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari shared a cozy moment from the swearing-in ceremony of the Assam government. Along with the exchange the two leaders also possibly alluded towards a shared problem of the two states, that being of the infiltrators.Photos posted by Suvendu Adhikari on…
PM Modi and Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday recorded his dissent with the proceedings to pick the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), alleging that he was not provided with the self-appraisal reports of the candidates and that the government’s choice was therefore “pre-decided.”As…
NEW DELHI: In a significant ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court said a qualified woman’s decision to pursue her profession and create a stable environment for her child cannot be treated as “cruelty” or “desertion” in a marriage, setting aside what it called the “regressive” and “ultra-conservative” findings of lower courts in a matrimonial dispute,…
