New Delhi: Delhi Police conducted raids and rescued six women from a gang involved in human trafficking, a DCW official said. It appears that women trafficked from villages were imprisoned, raped to ‘produce babies’. (march 23) The raids were conducted last night after two women employee of a Nihal Vihar-located placement agency approached the Delhi Commission […]
New Delhi: Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad punched and hit a 60-year-old Air India Duty Manager with his slippers nearly 20 times and tore his shirt at IGI airport here today (March 23) just because he could not travel business class in an all-economy flight. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police is seeking legal opinion on whether an […]
New Delhi, Mar 23: Amidst reports of slaughterhouse owners being threatened, some more ‘anti- beef ‘vigilantism, and members of minority communities facing inconvenience and harassment under the new UP government, Rajnath Singh has responded with a bland statement. The BJP does not discriminate on the basis of caste, creed or religion, Home Minister Rajnath Singh […]
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has drawn a veil of secrecy on corporate donations to political parties, so much for all the ‘transparency talk’. Finance minister Arun Jaitley slipped in a surprising amendment to the Companies Act, 2013, through a last-minute change in the Finance Bill, 2017, which removes the cap that barred a […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission tonight issued an interim order freezing the ‘two leaves’ election symbol of AIADMK, saying both the rival camps cannot use the party symbol as well as its name for the prestigious R K Nagar assembly bypoll, says PTI. After a day-long hearing here, the Commission said since there is little […]
United Nations : India has ranked a lowly 131 among the 188 countries surveyed for human development, a new UN report has said, bracketing the third-largest Asian economy alongside its South Asian neighbours like Pakistan, Bhutan and Nepal. India has made no improvement in its ranking over the previous year, despite the Human Development Report […]
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court issued notices to the state government and others on a PIL against alleged commercialization of a Christian cemetery in Valsad. (March 22) A division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi issued notices to the government, Valsad Collector and First District Church of the Brethren (FDCB). […]
Kochi: Rural India is very thirsty. We are the country with the most people without safe drinking water. India has the maximum number of people — 63 million — living in rural areas without access to clean water, according to a new global report released to mark World Water Day tomorrow. This is almost the […]
New Delhi : The Supreme Court today (March 21) said fresh attempts must be made by all parties concerned to find a solution to the Ayodhya temple dispute which is a “sensitive” and “sentimental matter”. A bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar said that such religious issues can be solved through negotiations and […]
The railways ignored this farmer’s pleas for compensation for land they acquired for railway tracks, , and now they are alert because a court has awarded him a train! He’s the third farmer to be awarded a train … surprised?, well read on… A Ludhiana farmer’s battle for proper compensation for land seized to build a […]
The many people worried about the fate of the two Indian Sufi clerics, as well as their families can breathe easy now. The two men have been traced and have reached Karachi, and will be flying back home soon. KARACHI: Two Indian clerics, Syed Asif Ali Nizami, the head priest of New Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, […]
WASHINGTON: Rock and roll musician Chuck Berry died at the age of 90 on Saturday (March 18) at St Charles County in his home state of Missouri in the US, the police said. “The St Charles County Police Department sadly confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr, better known as legendary musician Chuck […]
