A special court here sent Delhi cabinet minister Satyendar Jain to the Enforcement Directorate’s custody for 10 days on Tuesday after the agency claimed his custodial interrogation was important to verify the source of more than Rs 5 crore he had allegedly received from Kolkata-based shell companies in entities controlled by him.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain on Monday for allegedly “misleading investigations and transferring proceeds of crime” — a serious offence under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). He had been called to the ED headquarters in connection with money laundering investigations he has been facing since 2017 when the enforcement agency booked him under the PMLA on an FIR registered by the CBI.
Indian Revenue Service officer Sameer Wankhede, who headed the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai when the NCB arrested several persons, including superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan in the controversial drugs-on-cruise case last year, was on Monday transferred to the DG Taxpayer Service Directorate in Chennai, an official said.
Watering down or withdrawal of police protection to 400-plus at-risk individuals in Punjab was hotly debated following the murder of popular rapper and Congress politician Sidhu Moose Wala, with the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking Monday to know from the AAP government in the state why names of those who had lost their security details were leaked. The HC asked the government to reply by June 2.
The fallout of singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder continued to reverberate across Punjab on Monday as his anguished parents and fans refused to allow the Punjab police to conduct an autopsy. The singer was shot dead on Sunday evening in a Mansa village in an ambush. The family finally consented to the post-mortem by late afternoon and is yet to take a call on the funeral of the singer.
Aadhaar caught the government on the wrong foot over safety concerns after a statement issued by the Bangalore unit of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) – the agency that issues the 12-digit unique identity number – created a flutter when it asked people not to share their info with “unlicensed private entities” such as hotels or movie halls as it can be “misused”.
Bihar CM and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar has denied Union steel minister RCP Singh another term in the Rajya Sabha, while the fate of minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abaas Naqvi also looked uncertain after he failed to make it to the first list of BJP candidates from UP and Jharkhand. If the RS memberships of the two are not renewed, they will have to resign as ministers, setting the stage for a minor reshuffle of the Modi ministry.
A study by Christian Medical College, Vellore, on the effectiveness of mixed booster doses has yielded positive results and is currently being evaluated by central agencies, officials from the institute have said. “We presented the results to the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) and our interim analysis to the Drugs Controller General of India. NTAGI listened to our findings, but is yet to take a decision,” said principal investigator of the study Dr Winsley Rose.
Singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu aka Sidhu Moose Wala, who had contested the Punjab assembly elections earlier this year as a Congress candidate, was shot dead near Jawaharke village in Punjab’s Mansa district on Sunday evening. The 28-year-old was shot at point blank range and was declared brought dead on arrival at the Mansa civil hospital. “Three people were brought to the hospital, out of which Sidhu Moose Wala was dead.
The academic disruptions due to the Covid-19 situation, with nearly a quarter of school children not having access to any digital devices, led to further deepening of the learning crisis in the country. When compared to the previous survey conducted in 2017, the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 of over 34 lakh students from classes III, V, VIII and X indicated that the worst hit are those studying in state-government run schools.
India can overcome geography and rewrite history "if only we get the policies and the economics right", foreign minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday while highlighting how land connectivity through Myanmar and sea connectivity through Bangladesh on a commercial scale could open up "a world all the way to Vietnam and Philippines, from Haiphong to Hazira, and Manila to Mundra".
China, Russia, Iran and 4 central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan - joined India in strongly condemning terrorism in a joint statement after the 4th NSA-level regional security dialogue in Dushanbe while also calling for dismantling of terror camps in Afghanistan and the region.
At least seven Indian Army personnel died while 19 others were injured after the vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into Shyok River in Ladakh’s Tuktuk sector on Friday.A party of 26 soldiers was heading from the transit camp in Partapur to a forward location in Hanif sub-sector when the accident took place around 9am, about 25km from Thoise, injuring all occupants.
Over three-quarters of registered deaths in India remain without causes being medically certified and in a state like Bihar, that proportion is a scarcely believable 96.6%. While nationally there has been a marginal improvement in certification of deaths with the proportion rising from 20.7% in 2019 to 22.5% in 2020, several states have seen a worsening.
Nine people were killed in a tragic road accident near Chini Nallah Zojila Pass on Srinagar-Leh highway on Wednesday night. Officials sources on Thursday said a Tavera car bearing registration number JK12-7466, which was heading for Srinagar from Kargil, fell down 800ft into a gorge after the driver allegedly lost control over the vehicle.
Congress dissident and high profile lawyer Kapil Sibal on Wednesday snapped his ties with the party and crossed over to the Samajwadi Party camp, adding to the mounting list of crossovers in recent weeks and amplifying the perception of negativity about the grand old party.
A special NIA court in Delhi on Wednesday handed concurrent life terms to Kashmiri separatist and JKLF chief Yasin Malik for funding terror in J&K and waging war against the state, rejecting his contention that he had adhered to the Gandhian principle of non-violence and spearheaded "a peaceful struggle" since giving up armed militancy in 1994.
Describing India’s ties with the US as a “partnership of trust”, PM Modi on Tuesday said the two countries shared the same perspective about the Indo-Pacific region and are working to safeguard their shared values and common interests not only at the bilateral level but also with other like-minded countries. The remarks came at the PM’s meeting with President Biden in Tokyo, which saw them discussing what Biden termed “Russia’s brutal, unjustified invasion” of Ukraine and its effect.
The 67-year-old veteran politician is currently a Samajwadi Party MLA from the Jaswantnagar assembly segment in the Etawah district.
Candidature Of Dimple Yadav, Jayant is also being discussed.
The National Monuments authority was set up as per the provisions of the AMASR (Amendment Validation) Act 2010. It entrusted the authority with the responsibility to consider granting permissions to applicants for conservation related activity in the centrally-prohibited and regulated areas.
The Supreme Court has ruled all courts must consider pre- and post-crime conduct of a convict to ascertain mitigating grounds to avoid imposition of the capital punishm, in what marks another milestone on the meandering judicial journey since the 1980s towards virtual abolition of death penalty. Through this ruling, the court commuted the death sentences of three youth convicted for sensational and grotesque murders of three defenceless women in Indore in 2011 to 25 years in jail.
India was among a dozen "initial partners" that signed up in Tokyo Monday for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), a fresh economic arrangement proposed by US President Joe Biden to counter China's growing influence in the region through integrated, resilient and clean economies.
Five Hindu women plaintiffs have told the Supreme Court that the entire Gyanvapi mosque land belonged to Kashi Vishwanath temple and cited the British government’s trial court statement repudiating a Muslim person’s 1936 suit for a declaration that the mosque land was a wakf property.
The Quad summit in Japan on Tuesday will provide an opportunity to leaders to review progress of their common initiatives and exchange views on the developments in Indo-Pacific region, PM Narendra Modi said in a statement. PM Modi’s most significant engagement on Monday will be his participation in the launch of US President Joe Biden’s ambitious Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) initiative that seeks the integration of Indo-Pacific economies and secure and resilient supply chains.
Loudspeakers at mosques in Uttar Pradesh have either turned down their volume or been removed, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday and added the uninstalled public address systems are being donated to schools and hospitals. The chief minister further said there were no riots in the BJP-ruled state during and after the recent assembly polls.
A little 10-year-old champion skater from Worli, Rhythm Mamania, has become one of the youngest Indian mountaineers to summit the Everest Base Camp (EBC) in the Himalayan ranges in Nepal. Rhythm had no coach or formal training, and would practise by running up and down the long flight of steps near Shastri Garden at 5am.
The Centre on Saturday slashed excise duty by Rs 8 on petrol and Rs 6 on diesel to bring down fuel prices and ease inflation by reducing transportation charges for the Aam-Aadmi’s daily staples. The government also announced a Rs 200 subsidy on LPG for consumers who were given connection free of cost under the Ujjwala programme, one of the Narendra Modi government’s flagship social welfare schemes launched in 2016.
An Army jawan, Naik BD Rao, died early Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district. He was posted with 16 Rashtriya Rifles at Draba....
