PM Modi has lost people’s trust, says Rahul
Morena: Stepping up his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said he won’t become the PM again as people have lost faith in him. Addressing a poll rally ahead of the third phase of Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh on May 12, Gandhi said Modi can’t face the truth […]
No ‘Black Lists’ of Indian-origin people maintained now: MHA
New Delhi: The Home Ministry has done away with ‘Black Lists’ of Indian-origin people, mostly Sikhs, who have taken asylum abroad under the plea of alleged persecution in India, officials said Tuesday. The list is maintained by Indian missions. The officials said all such people will also be given regular visa as well as Overseas […]
NIA files charge sheet against two Kashmiri’s in Jalandhar blast case
New Delhi: The NIA filed a charge sheet against two Kashmiri men in connection with grenade attacks at a police station in Maqsudan, Jalandhar last year, officials said. In the four attacks that took place on September 14, 2018, one police personnel had sustained splinter injuries, they said. The agency had arrested Fazil Bashir Pinchoo […]
Clean chit to CJI: Former woman employee of SC seeks copy of in-house inquiry report
New Delhi: The former woman employee of the Supreme Court who levelled sexual harassment allegations against Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, on Tuesday sought a copy of the report of the In-House Inquiry Committee which gave clean chit to the CJI. The CJI Monday got a clean chit from a three-member Inquiry Committee headed by Justice […]
Highway blockade: SC dismisses plea challenging order
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging the Jammu and Kashmir government’s order restricting civilian traffic for a day in a week on a stretch of the national highway from Udhampur to Baramulla for the movement of security forces. Counsel for the state government told the bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan […]
Amid logjam US-Taliban peace talks paused on Ramadan eve
DOHA: Peace talks between the US and the Taliban were suspended for the beginning of Ramadan on Monday, with the two sides at apparent loggerheads over the key issue of when foreign forces might leave Afghanistan. The foes have spent much of the past week in a sixth round of talks in Doha aimed at […]
Sexual harassment allegations: CJI gets clean chit as in-House panel finds ‘no substance’ in complaint
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi Monday got a clean chit from the Supreme Court’s In-House Inquiry Committee which “has found no substance” in the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by a former woman employee of the apex court. A notice by the office of Supreme Court Secretary General said the […]
Highly disappointed with report: Ex SC woman employee
New Delhi: “Highly disappointed and dejected,” said the former Supreme Court employee who levelled sexual harassment allegations against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, after the In-House Inquiry Committee gave him a clean chit on Monday. She said “gross injustice” has been done to her as a woman citizen of India and her “worst fears” […]
Cross-border operations happened in past as well, but were not politicked: Ex-Commander
Jaipur: Retired Lieutenant General D S Hooda said on Saturday that cross-border operations had happened in the past too but disapproved of politicising the matter. Responding to a question on the Congress party’s claim that six surgical strikes had been carried out during its rule too, Hooda told reporters here, “Certainly cross-border operations have been […]
BJP will be a loser, says Rahul
Claims internal assessment by Congress shows BJP is way behind
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said his party’s internal assessment after four phases of polling shows that the BJP will lose in the Lok Sabha elections and he sees a “scared prime minister” unable to face the onslaught of the opposition. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here, he stated […]
