New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday offered tributes to former prime minister late Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary. “Tributes to former PM Smt. Indira Gandhi Ji on the occasion of her birth anniversary,” Modi said in a post on X. Born on November 19, 1917, Indira Gandhi served as the prime minister…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday arrested Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, chairman of the Al Falah group, after it conducted simultaneous searches in Delhi-NCR against the trustees and promoters of Faridabad-based Al Falah University, linked to the Red Fort area car blast case, officials said. Siddiqui has been taken into custody under the criminal provisions…
New Delhi: Under a large-scale verification drive carried out after the November 10 blast near the Red Fort, the Delhi Police has registered cases against 250 people across the North district, mostly for not completing the mandatory police verification process, an official said on Tuesday. The blast triggered by a suicide bomber, which followed the…
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Police have recovered a mobile phone of the Red Fort suicide bomber, Dr Umar-un-Nabi, and the extracted data has provided chilling evidence to show that he had prepared a video justifying the suicide attack as a ‘martyrdom operation’. The critical evidence was unearthed after the detention and subsequent interrogation of…
Patna: Jan Suraaj Party leader Prashant Kishor on Tuesday claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) would have been bundled up with just 25 seats had his government not given Rs 10,000 to 60,000 beneficiaries in each constituency just before the assembly elections and promised Rs 2 lakh to 1.5 crore women across the…
New Delhi: Madavi Hidma, the dreaded Maoists ‘commander,’ was killed by security forces 12 days before the November 30 deadline set by Union Home Minister Amit Shah to eliminate the most wanted Naxalite, sources said on Tuesday. Security forces killed the 44-year-old Naxal leader in the dense Pullagandi forests located at the tri-junction of Andhra…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Centre, CBI, ED, Anil Ambani and others on a PIL seeking a court-monitored probe into alleged massive banking and corporate fraud involving Reliance Communications (RCOM), its group companies, and their promoter. A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran…
Pune: The removal of a bust of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj from the premises of a government office in Pune triggered protests by various organisations, prompting the administration to reinstall the structure at its original spot. The protesting outfits opposed the removal of the bust of the 17th-century Maratha warrior king, claiming it had been part…
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to repeal the land pooling scheme in the Simhastha (Kumbh) mela area in Ujjain following protests by farmers, an official said. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav decided to repeal the scheme after discussions with representatives of the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, the BJP, public representatives in Ujjain, and the district…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday launched searches against the Al Falah University of Faridabad and its promoters and linked persons as part of its investigation related to the Red Fort area terrorist blast case, sources said. Teams of the federal probe agency have been searching multiple locations in the Delhi-NCR since early morning,…
