New Delhi: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the appointment of senior IPS officer Anand Swaroop as the new Special Secretary (Internal Security) in place of incumbent Praveen Vashista, a government order said. Swaroop, a 1992-batch IPS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, is currently working…
Jaipur: A “sons-of-the-soil” recruitment policy, specialised task-oriented weaponry and advanced training are key factors making the Bhairav Light Commando battalions of the Indian Army highly effective and agile, a commanding officer of one such unit has said, as the Army prepares to expand these elite formations further. These battalions have been raised to deliver swift,…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said counter- terror operations targeting terrorist infrastructure and terror financing must continue in a “mission mode”, asserting that all the resources will be made available to achieve the goal of “terror-free” Jammu and Kashmir at the earliest. Chairing a high-level security review meeting on the Union…
Dehradun: The parents of Ankita Bhandari have urged Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami for a CBI probe into the murder of their daughter, according to their letter. Ankita’s father, Virendra Singh Bhandari, and mother, Soni Devi, met Dhami on Wednesday night and handed him a letter demanding an enquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation…
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “obstructed” the Enforcement Directorate’s probe into the coal smuggling case and took away evidence which could have led the sleuths to her “doorsteps”. Terming Banerjee’s conduct the “most unbecoming” of a chief minister, BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala alleged that she…
Kolkata: The family of Pratik Jain, chief of political consultancy firm I-PAC, on Thursday filed a police complaint against the Enforcement Directorate (ED), alleging theft of important documents during a raid at home, an officer said. The search operation, which began at 6 am, continued for over nine hours, an official of the probe agency…
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday appealed to every voter and ‘PDA Prahari’ to remain vigilant and ensure that no conspiracy to delete the votes of the PDA community succeeds. Yadav coined the acronym PDA in June 2023, which stands for ‘Pichhde’ (backward classes), Dalits and ‘Alpsankhyak’ (minorities). In a post on X,…
Kolkata: Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari termed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s visit to IPAC chief Pratik Jain’s house during the ED raid on Thursday as “unconstitutional and interference” in the central agency’s probe. He said that the ED should take steps against the chief minister. “I feel that the chief minister…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that ED officials were attempting to seize TMC’s hard disks, internal documents and sensitive organisational data during a search operation at the residence of I-PAC chief Prateek Jain here. Banerjee said the raid at the residence of Jain, whom she termed as the party’s IT…
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has slammed the BJP for targeting senior AAP leader Atishi for her alleged remarks on Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur, which, he claimed, she never made. Alleging that the BJP has always been anti-Punjab and anti-Sikh, Mann said in a post on X, “Today, its (BJP’s) anti-Punjab and anti-Sikh face…
