The special investigation team (SIT) probing the Shahjahanpur rape case, has sealed the Divya ashram of the accused BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand. Chinmayanand, who was interrogated by the SIT on Thursday night for almost seven hours, has been placed under house arrest. “All the rooms in the ashram have been sealed and only one room […]
Elections for a students’ union in a university may not exactly be a do-or-die situation for the contestants but it is quite a serious affair for the political parties involved through the contesting organisations. After all, the results in such elections indicate as to which way the wind is blowing regarding developments in the country, […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday announced that the Odd-Even scheme will be back in November, to tackle the rising menace of pollution just around the time of Diwali. The scheme will be enforced on November 4 and will continue till November 15. Apart from that he announced plans to buy electric buses and […]
A producer with the US National Public Radio (NPR), Furkan Khan, has resigned after her Hinduphobic tweet caused outrage among the people of all religions. “If Indians give up on Hinduism, they will also be solving most of their problems. What with all the piss drinking and dung worshipping,” she had tweeted on September 9. […]
An international cricket match after a long time in the picturesque hill destination of Dharamsala on Sunday has set the hospitality industrys cash register ringing. Members of the industry expect arrival of over 20,000 cricket buffs, mainly from the plains of north India, to visit Dharamsala that has been luring a stream of Westerners and […]
Before he quit ostensibly over curbs imposed in Kashmir, IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan was issued a showcause notice in July by the Union Home Ministry for indulging in various acts of “omission and commission” which constitute “misconduct” as well as “dereliction of duty”. The ministry cited “dereliction” of duty in the administrative works of the […]
In one of the biggest drug rackets unearthed by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of US, the Indian connection has led to a former aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and a pharmaceutical company allegedly operating from India, where drugs like mandrax and ephedrine were being manufactured. The overarching investigation also involves husbands of two […]
When UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet spoke on Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, she ignored the human rights violations being carried out by Pakistani forces in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan for decades. People in these regions, which were part of the undivided Jammu and Kashmir before their forcible annexation by Pakistan in […]
Amid the economic slowdown plunging August sales of automobiles to the lowest since 1997-98 indicating further worsening of demand and investment, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will elaborate on the decisions and initiatives taken by the Modi2.0 government in the last 100 days. She will address media on “Furthering Development — 100 days of bold initiatives, […]
After failing to garner support on Jammu and Kashmir from countries individually, Pakistan is now preparing to rake up the issue at the forum of United Nations, mainly with the agenda of internationalizing the matter. Pakistan, which has become desperate ever since the government of India abolished the special status of Jammu and Kashmir granted […]