Man gets 10-year RI for raping girl
Kolkata, Mar 26 (PTI) A city court Tuesday sentenced a 22-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a girl after forcibly marrying her at a temple. Abhijit Paik was found guilty of kidnapping the girl from her home in Narkeldanga area in the eastern part of the city and raping her. Additional Sessions […]
Gurgaon Muslim family assailants felt they were immune to law: Yogendra Yadav
Gurgaon, Mar 26 (PTI) Expressing shock at “brutal attack” on a Muslim family in Gurgaon, Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav Tuesday said the assailants were confident that they will not by punished for their misdeed. Yadav visited the victim family Monday at Bhoop Singh Nagar here and demanded from the Gurgaon administration and Haryana government […]
Old Congress loyalist’s son to take on Rahul in Amethi
Amethi (UP), Mar 26 (PTI) Severing generations-old links with the Congress, the son of a veteran party loyalist has decided to take on Rahul Gandhi in Amethi in the Lok Sabha polls. Haroon Rashid, whose father Haji Sultan had been the “proposer” in the poll nomination papers of the present Congress president’s father Rajiv Gandhi and […]
J&K ICAI Organizes Seminar on Bank Audit
Jammu :J&K Branch of the NIRC of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India organized a seminar on Statutory Audit of Banks and Usage of Commands in FINACLE-7 Software which was presided over by the Chairman & CEO of J&K Bank Parvez Ahmed as Chief Guest on the occasion and senior Chartered Accountant Niranjan Joshi […]
Couple’s bullet-riddled bodies found in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, Mar 26 (PTI) Bullet-riddled bodies of a man and a woman, who were supposed to get married soon, were recovered from here on Monday, police said. The GT Road Kotwali police recovered the bodies in Sai Upvan near Hindon river. An investigation is on to probe multiple angles, including whether the couple committed suicide […]
ED arrests defence agent in VVIP choppers case
New Delhi, Mar 26 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested a defence agent from Delhi in the Rs 3,600-crore VVIP choppers deal case, officials said Tuesday. They said Sushen Mohan Gupta was arrested late Monday by agency sleuths under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Gupta, they said, has allegedly dealt in defence deals, […]
Ensuring security a challenge
The upcoming parliamentary polls are a challenge for the administration in many ways. The volatile situation in Kashmir valley has been making this challenge all the more difficult for the authorities as security officials have reports and apprehensions about escalation in violence especially in south Kashmir and many areas in Srinagar. The situation is grave […]
NC’s LS candidates will protect J&K’s special status: Omar Abdullah
Srinagar, Mar 25 (PTI) National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah Monday asserted that the principal task ahead of the people of Jammu and Kashmir is to protect the state’s special status. He stressed that his party has fielded suitable candidates on all the Lok Sabha seats in the valley who will ensure that the voice […]
SC dismisses plea challenging constitutional validity of ‘triple talaq’ ordinance
New Delhi, Mar 25 (PTI) The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a plea challenging the Constitutional validity of an ordinance which makes the practice of ‘triple talaq’ a punishable offence. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta dismissed a plea of a Kerala-based outfit Samastha Kerala Jamiathul Ulema and said it will […]
Oman allows US military to use its ports
Muscat, Mar 25 (AFP) Oman on Sunday said it had signed an agreement with the United States that would allow American ships and warplanes to take advantage of ports and airports. The state-run Oman News Agency said the “framework agreement” was aimed at bolstering “Omani-American military relations” in a report on its English-language website. “It […]
