New Delhi: No offence of hate speech is made out against the wrestlers who were protesting at Jantar Mantar seeking action against sidelined Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Delhi police told a court here on Friday. Police said this in an Action Taken Report (ATR) filed before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday modified a Delhi High Court order granting a 15-day interim bail to Raghav Magunta, the son of YSR Congress Party MP Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, in the Delhi excise policy scam case and asked him to surrender on June 12. The high court had granted interim bail to Magunta after…
Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh government will on Saturday transfer Rs 1,000 each 1.25 crore women in the state under its flagship scheme ‘Ladli Behna Yojana’, a move billed as a game-changer by BJP leaders ahead of the year-end Assembly polls. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has appealed to the women in the state to “rejoice on…
Chandigarh: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday inaugurated two CGHS wellness centres in Panchkula and Chandigarh calling quality healthcare priority of the Narendra Modi government. With the Friday opening, Chandigarh now has two Central Government Health Scheme wellness centre. The minister inaugurated the Panchkula centre through a virtual link. Speaking on the occasion, Mandaviya said,…
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…
