Surat: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be in Gujarat’s Surat city on Monday to file an appeal before a sessions court against his conviction in a criminal defamation case, his lawyer said on Sunday. Gandhi will be present in the sessions court to file the plea challenging a metropolitan court’s order which sentenced him to […]
Hisua (Bihar): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday tore into the Nitish Kumar-led Mahagathbandhan government in Bihar for “failing to check” communal violence in Sasaram and Bihar Sharif towns and asserted that rioters will be hung upside down if the BJP forms the government in the state in 2025. Addressing a rally in Hisua […]
Thane: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday led the ‘Savarkar Gaurav Yatra’ in his hometown Thane in which hundreds of people took part to honour late Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar. The Bharatiya Janata Party and Shinde-led Shiv Sena had last month announced that Savarkar Gaurav Yatras would be taken out in each district […]
New Delhi: Vice Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh has assumed the charge of the vice chief of naval staff, the Indian Navy said on Sunday. He succeeds Vice Admiral SN Ghormade who retired after over 39 years of service. Vice Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh, a graduate of the National Defence Academy, Pune, was commissioned in 1986 […]
Colder Days To Continue, Improvement Likely From April 7: MeT Srinagar: Rains lashed plains on Saturday, bringing a considerable drop in the day temperature in Jammu and Kashmir. Also, the weather department here said that intermittent rain in plains and snowfall over higher reaches was very likely to continue at most places of Jammu and […]
New Delhi: Although the State is tasked to prevent crime and maintain security, personal liberty should not be the collateral and none should suffer incarceration without legal authority, the Supreme Court has said. The Supreme Court observation came while it was examining the legal question whether the date of remand is to be included or […]
New Delhi: Jails are overcrowded and their living conditions appalling and the courts should ensure that trials, especially in cases where special laws enact stringent provisions, are taken up and concluded speedily, the Supreme Court has said. The top court said if the trials are not concluded in time, the injustice wrecked on the individual […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reviewed India’s security challenges and operational readiness of the armed forces to deal with them at a key conclave of top commanders from the army, navy and air force in Bhopal. The defence ministry said Modi called upon the three services to stay ready to deal with […]
Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday said its troops opened fire at a suspected Pakistani drone along the International Border here, forcing it to retreat. A massive search operation is underway to ensure no weapons or narcotics were airdropped by the drone, a BSF spokesperson said. “A blinking light (of a suspected drone) […]
Jammu: Nearly 400 public welfare projects in Jammu and Kashmir remained incomplete despite incurring an expenditure of over Rs 1,000 crore over the past decade till the end of financial year 2021-22, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said. As many as 378 of these projects were taken up by different government departments between […]