New Delhi: The practice of using combat canines for ceremonial drills like presenting flowers to greet VIPs should be stopped and they must only be utilised for specific tasks of catching suspects and sniffing contraband and IEDs, a panel comprising police dog experts has recommended. The specialists have suggested that a separate “demo dog unit” could…
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday took wrestler Sangeeta Phogat to outgoing WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s official residence here to recreate the sequence of events that led to the sexual harassment of which he has been accused. According to sources, Phogat was accompanied by women constables. “At 1.30 pm women officers took Sangeeta…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government will review the largesse of the previous BJP government in allotting ‘hundreds of acres of land’ to RSS and its affiliated organisations, Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said on Friday. He also said a few tenders issued by the BJP government have been cancelled while others will be…
Lahore: An anti-terrorism court has denied police further physical remand of 13 women supporters of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, including fashion designer Khadija Shah, in a case linking them to the attack on the historic Jinnah House here and sent them to jail on judicial remand. When the women belonging to Khan’s Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf…
Islamabad: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has said the stage has been set for his “court martial” after the country’s all-powerful army vowed to try the “masterminds and planners” of May 9 violence in military courts. His remarks came a day after Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah accused Khan of planning the countrywide violence that erupted…
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar is set to unveil on Friday Rs 14.5 trillion annual budget for 2023-24 that includes a staggering 66 per cent hike in the discretionary budget of parliamentarians, a decision that might push the cash-strapped country towards a looming default due to shrinking foreign reserves. Pakistan government on Wednesday approved a…
New Delhi: In a setback for Indian tennis in terms of having presence on the ATP Tour, the country has lost its only ATP 250 tournament — an event that was first held way back in 1996 and till recently was organised as Tata Open Maharshtra. The Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) had saved it…
London: Former India spinner Harbhajan Singh reckons the current team has not shown the fearlessness that one needs to win ICC titles and fielding four seamers in the World Test Championship final was a bit “too much”. Having come short in ICC knockout games on numerous occasions since winning their last trophy in 2013, India find…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested a director of Gurugram-based realty company M3M in a money laundering investigation, official sources said Friday. Roop Kumar Bansal was taken into custody under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on Thursday, they said. On June 1, the federal probe agency carried out raids against the M3M…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fostered progress through technology that resulted in exponential surge in digital transactions, made business easier and Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) took government services to every home, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday. The home minister highlighted through tweets the Modi government’s thrust on use of technology for…
