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Independent witness Prabhakar Sail appeared before Mumbai Police on Tuesday evening for recording statement in connection with his allegation of extortion attempt by NCB officials in the drugs seizure case involving Aryan Khan, an official said here.Sail appeared before Milind Khetle, Assistant...
23:31
The Zika virus patient in Kanpur is under treatment but stable, and samples of 22 persons who were in contact with him have resulted negative for the mosquito-borne disease, officials said on Tuesday.The 57-year-old man had tested positive for Zika virus on October 22, prompting the Centre to...
22:26
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Ashish Mishra, the main accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case who was admitted to a hospital after he tested positive for dengue, was shifted back to the district jail on Tuesday evening following improvement in his condition, a senior jail official said.Ashish Mishra, the son of Union...
22:19
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray would write a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the portrayal of Bollywood in a bad light in the wake of recent raids by the NCB which could affect the livelihood of the people dependent on that industry, NCP leader and minister Nawab Malik...
21:37
Pakistani journalist Aroosa Alam said on Tuesday that she is ready to join any investigation by Indian agencies for her alleged links with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as she described the allegations against her as outrageous and utterly disappointing.Punjab Deputy Chief Minister...
21:06
The Nagpur police commissioner's notification permanently prohibiting prostitution in Ganga Jamuna area of the city has been challenged in the Bombay High Court with the Nagpur bench directing that a writ petition filed in this regard be registered as a PIL.Petitioner Mukesh Shahu, through his...
20:43
A 36-year-old man was recently apprehended by CISF officials at a Delhi Metro station here for carrying Rs 58 lakh cash in an alleged unauthorised manner, a senior officer said on Tuesday.The incident took place at the Lal Quila station on October 23 and the cash was recovered from the bag of a...
20:24
The Delhi Cabinet will meet on Wednesday to approve the addition of Ayodhya in its free pilgrimage scheme for senior citizens of the city, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said during his visit to Lord Rama's birthplace on Tuesday.Kejriwal offered prayers at the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya and...
19:14
Lt Gen Nadeem Ahmed Anjum has been appointed as the director general of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence, a letter issued by Muhammed Azam Khan, secretary to Prime Minister Imran Khan, stated.Lt Gen Anjum will take charge on November 20.
19:11
Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP K Muraleedharan was on Tuesday booked by police for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Thiruvananthapuram city corporation Mayor Arya Rajendran, police said. Police said a case has...
19:00
A five-member team of the Narcotics Control Bureau will reach Mumbai from Delhi on Wednesday to conduct probe into the allegations of corruption made by Prabhakar Sail, who is a witness in the drugs-on-cruise case of Mumbai. The NCB team will comprise DDG NCB Gyaneshwar Singh along with 4...
18:10
Hearing on the bail application of accused Aryan Khan has been adjourned for tomorrow by the Bombay High Court. So that's the 24th night in Arthur Road jail for the 23-year-old boy. The court is now hearing co-accused Arbaaz Merchant's bail plea.
17:55
The Khans
Former Attorney General of India Mukul Rohatgi argues for Aryan Khan and makes a pertinent point: This case has attracted public gaze and media attention only due to his parents otherwise this case would not have even been mentioned like this.Aryan Khan, as you must know over the last couple of...
17:46
Now, the arguments in court are about a conversation between Aryan Khan and a college student on online poker. The conversation was retrieved from WhatsApp chats.The college student is being referred to as Accused 17. -- A17 is a young college kid. From all the records that are coming...
17:37
Mukul Rohatgi pleads Aryan Khan's bail:-- I respectfully submit that I have a better case than all cases, I am citing because there is no recovery from me.-- On the charas found with Aryan Khan's friend Arbaaz Merchant: It was not in my control, what was found in Merchants shoe. Arbaaz is not my...
17:23
Mukul Rohatgi on punishment for consumption of drugs: -- Maximum punishment is imprisonment of 1 year and that is maximum and not minimum. There is NO case of harbouring also.-- These are young boys. They can be sent to rehab and they need not undergo trial. It had come in some...
17:10
NCB officer Sameer Wankhede
Aryan Khan now denies any deal with anti-drugs agency (NCB) officers or any connection with the allegations of a payoff involving Sameer Wankhede, the officer leading the investigations against him and others in the drugs-on-cruise case.Mukul Rohatgi in court: -- I'm not concerned with any...
17:05
Aryan Khan's lawyer Mukul Rohatgi
Mukul Rohatgi argues for Aryan Khan:Accused 2 (Arbaz Merchant) says that he was not having possession (of drugs) but it was planted on him. Whether it was planted or it was in his possession, I have nothing to do with that. -- 23 days have passed till today and I had nothing to do with all...
16:52
Mukul Rohatgi arguing for bail for Aryan Khan.He began with the facts of the case which according to him are:-- 6 gms of charas was recorded from Accused Number 2 (Arbaz Merchant), and I (Aryan) have no relation with him except for arriving with him there. There was no recovery. There was no...
16:37
Aryan Khan's lawyer Mukul Rohatgi tells the court that in his client's case there is no recovery of drugs, no consumption of drugs and no medical test was done either (to see if narcotics were present in Khan's bloodstream). Rohatgi says there is nothing against my client and therefore there...
16:25
Aryan Khan's bail hearing begins in the Bombay High Court. The 23-year-old son of superstar Shah Rukh Khan has been denied bail twice, by a Mumbai magistrate court and special anti-drugs court.He was arrested on October 3 in connection with a drugs raid on a Mumbai cruise ship party by...
16:15
Arvind Subramanian was CEA from 2014-2018
The government has invited applications for the post of chief economic adviser (CEA) to replace K V Subramanian, who will complete his three-year tenure next month. Subramanian was appointed as CEA on December 7, 2018, while he assumed charge on December 24 in the same...
16:06
Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh may launch his new political party on Wednesday, according to speculation triggered by the announcement of a press conference. Singh had last week said he would soon launch his own party, and that he was hopeful of a seat arrangement with...
16:03
The meeting will discuss ramping up of vax drive
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will hold a meeting with Health Ministers of states and union territories on Wednesday regarding ramping up of the COVID-19 vaccination drive in the country, said government sources on Tuesday. The Union Health Minister will also discuss with the...
15:43
PM in Kedarnath in 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kedarnath on November 5, a day ahead of the closure of the Himalayan temple for winters, to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of Kedarpuri reconstruction projects worth over Rs 400 crore. It will be his second visit to the state within a...
15:29
Drugs on cruise case: The Bombay High Court limits the number of people to remain in court in order to decongest the courtroom.The court will today hear the bail plea of 23-year-old Aryan Khan, who has been denied bail twice, both by a Mumbai magistrate court and special anti-drugs court,...
15:14
The Trinamool Congress cannot wait for the Congress indefinitely to bring Opposition parties under one umbrella against the BJP, senior TMC leader Sukhendu Sekhar Ray said on Tuesday.In a press briefing soon after new inductee Sushmita Dev, who switched over from the Congress, took oath as a TMC...
14:41
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday issued an order allowing the common people, irrespective of the nature of their jobs, who are vaccinated fully against COVID-19 to board suburban trains in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). In this order, the state government has extended the...
14:16
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday opposed the bail plea filed by actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, who was arrested earlier this month in the cruise drugs seizure case, alleging the 23-year-old was not just a consumer of drugs, but also involved in illicit drug...
13:54
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has said it has no information on public requests -- and RTI documents show that the ministry hastily issued a circular on the renaming after Modi's tweet. Read the exclusive story by The Wire here.
13:50
Sameer Wankhede's sister, Yasmeen
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials removed the posters put up by Hindu Sena in support of NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede outside the agency's office in the national capital on Tuesday.The Hindu Sena's support comes amid the political stir between Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik and...
13:36
Pakistanis celebrate their win
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday said the DNA of those who burst firecrackers in the country if Pakistan wins a cricket match against India cannot be Indian. The DNA of those who burst firecrackers in India on Pakistan winning a cricket match cannot be Indian. Be careful of the...
13:34
Sameer Wankhede's wife, Kranti Redkar Wankhede
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, who is probing the drug case involving Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, reached the NCB office in the national capital on Tuesday.While speaking to reporters on Monday, Wankhede said, I have not been summoned. I...
12:43
Once an atheist, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, is now a politician. And so, Kejriwal said today that he will hold a special cabinet meeting on Wednesday to include Ayodhya on the list of religious places under the free pilgrimage scheme for senior citizens of the national...
12:27
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday emphasised on the need for discipline and unity, saying strengthening the organisation must override personal ambitions. Chairing a meeting of top party leaders to evolve a strategy for assembly elections in five states early next year, she said the...
12:12
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to grant protection to the witnesses of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case in which eight people including four farmers were killed during a farmers' protest. A bench headed by Chief justice N V Ramana asked the Uttar...
11:44
At least six civilians were injured in a grenade attack by terrorists in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said. At about 10:20 am, terrorists hurled a grenade upon the Army convoy near bus stand Sumbal which missed the target and exploded on road side, a police...
11:36
Gita Gopinath tweets this picture of a 'fun pre-Diwali' evening with (L to R) Iqbal Dhaliwal, global executive director of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, former RBI chief Raghuram Rajan and Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo.The IMF's Chief...
11:27
A special court in Ahmedabad has remanded an Afghan national in the NIA's custody for three days in connection with a case pertaining to the seizure of 2,988 kg of drugs at the Mundra Port in Gujarat last month. Mohammed Khan, an accused in the Rs 21,000-crore heroin seizure case, was on...
10:56
NCB officer Sameer Wankhede
Maharashtra Minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik's fresh claims against NCB officer Sameer Wankhede.Sameer Wankhede through two private people in Mumbai and Thane is illegally intercepting the mobile phones of some people. I have received a letter from an unnamed NCB official. I am sending...
10:52
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi's meeting to discuss the upcoming Assembly elections in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa, among other issues, begins.Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and other Congress leaders are at the Congress party headquarters for the...
10:26
Shah Rukh Khan visits his son in jail
Amid a political slugfest over the cruise drugs seizure case of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), the Shiv Sena on Tuesday said the BJP acts like it owns central investigation agencies, but it should not forget that in a democracy owners do change. An editorial in the Sena mouthpiece...
10:20
Mukul Rohatgi, the former Attorney General of India, will represent Aryan Khan in court for his bail hearing today. The 23-year-old son of superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in jail since October 8 in the drugs-on-cruise case, has been denied bail twice.A development in the case is that Sameer...
09:58
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi will be presiding over a meeting with core party leaders to discuss the upcoming assembly elections to Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa, among other issues.The meeting will be held at party headquarters. As per the party sources on...
09:55
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday paid homage to 40 Central Reserve Police Force jawans who were killed in the deadly Pulwama terror attack in February 2019 in Jammu and Kashmir. Shah, who was on a four-day visit to the Union territory, laid a floral wreath at the memorial...
08:43
The Bombay high court on Tuesday will hear actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan's bail plea in Mumbai cruise drug case. Last week, a special court in Mumbai said Aryan Khan's WhatsApp chats indicated he is dealing in illicit drug activities of narcotic substances on a regular basis, so it...
08:30
A lawyer on Monday approached the Mumbai police with a complaint seeking registration of an FIR against Narcotics Control Bureau zonal director Sameer Wankhede and five others on charge of alleged extortion in connection with the drugs-on-cruise case, an official said. According to the...
08:19
Americans across the country are observing October as the Hindu Heritage Month, with more that 20 of the 50 states and over 40 cities issuing proclamations about it, community leaders said Monday. The first ever initiative of Hindu groups in the country has been welcomed by elected...
00:12
The United States will lift all travel restrictions for incoming non-citizen, non-immigrant travellers from November 8, with only limited exceptions, and they will be required to be fully vaccinated and produce proof of their COVID-19 vaccination prior to boarding a flight to the country, the...
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