Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Monday came down heavily on the Uttar Pradesh government over the suspension of a woman IAS officer, who had clamped down on illegal mining in the state.
Under attack from Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Wednesday wrote to the home ministry rebutting charges that police had interfered when a magistrate was recording the statement of Delhi gangrape victim.
As Delhi hospitals faced a severe oxygen crisis for the third consecutive day, the DDMA roped in three senior bureaucrats on Thursday to ensure a smooth movement of tankers and facilitate oxygen supply to the needy establishments, and directed the police to provide the security logistics from the manufacturers' sites to various health facilities in the city.
Two of the accused in December 16 gang rape case on Thursday questioned in a court in New Delhi the authenticity of the girl's dying declaration being relied upon by the Delhi police as they claimed that the same was introduced by the probe agency after her death.
The condition of over two dozen people admitted in various hospitals in Etah and Saifai, after they consumed the spurious liquor, was stated to be critical.
The Uttar Pradesh Police had said on Saturday that it would invoke the stringent National Security Act and Gangster Act against those accused in the killing of the 46-year-old man.
As the issue remained deadlocked with both sides sticking to their respective positions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while laying the foundation stone for a new Parliament building, invoked Guru Nanak to underscore the importance of dialogue and noted that the Sikh Guru had said that interaction should continue till eternity.
Tomar said the next meeting will take place on Saturday at 2 pm which he hoped would take the matter to a decisive stage and towards a final resolution.
The local boys used to harass girls at a government residential school.
Only two weeks after the death of four-year-old girl Mahi who fell into a borewell, a five-year-old boy also fell to his death on Thursday night in an open sewerage line near Industrial Model Township, Gurgaon.
A day after protesting farmer leaders paraded a youth who claimed a plot to disrupt their January 26 tractor rally, the Haryana police on Saturday said it had found no proof to support the allegations during its probe. It said the youth had claimed that he 'cooked up' the conspiracy story under fear after some volunteers at a protest site caught him and accused him of eve teasing.
He quit his job in Dubai and returned to India to spend time with his ailing mother but life doesn't always go according to plan -- and news of her death came shortly before his 14-day quarantine in Delhi was ending. A heartbroken Aamir Khan said his mother died on Saturday and he could not even attend his mother's last rites at their home in Rampur on Sunday. His quarantine would end soon but he wasn't allowed to leave.
Faridabad's SDM Pradeep said three persons on ground -- all women -- were among the 10 dead when the P-12 single-engine turboprop aircraft belonging to Delhi-based Air Chartered Services India Limted crashed in Jawaharnagar locality near the IAF station in the Delhi suburb at around 10:35 pm shortly before landing at IGI airport in Delhi.
Rubbishing various speculation surrounding his mother Sunanda Pushkar's death, her son Shiv Menon on Wednesday said she was "too strong" to commit suicide and died due to an unfortunate combination of media stress, tensions and a wrong mix of different medication.
Leading hotels are taking all precautions but the unusual service the staff has been pressed into puts them at the forefront of COVID fight.
The MLA tried to justify his decision but later removed it from his account.
PSG College of Technology has invited IT firms and external agencies to conduct training.
DRDO plans to build a tank for use in the mountains and in the jungles.
Tuesday was the last day of filing of nominations for February 8 Delhi Assembly polls, results of which will be declared on February 11. The AAP held the BJP responsible for the delay, a charge dismissed as 'drama' by the saffron party.
Heavy police force was deployed at the Congress office in view of the march and roads leading to it were barricaded. However, many Congress workers reached the spot and started a public meeting.
Accompanied by five party workers, Raje filed the papers at collectorate of Jhalawar, Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Gaurav Bajaj told PTI on phone.
Singh is survived by his wife Jasbir Kaur, a daughter, two sons and elderly parents.
Terming the incident as 'horrific', the Aam Aadmi Party hit out at the Centre by drawing a comparison with the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre, whose centenary is being observed on Saturday.
The PM's choice of ministers is interesting, to say the least, says Jyoti Punwani.
The bodies of 5 more persons were fished out of the Ganga river while a search was on to trace the 7 others who had gone missing after a boat capsized in the river near Shooltankeshwar area.
Pakistan violated the ceasefire for the third consecutive day on Monday by firing small arms on forward posts and four hamlets in Nowshera sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district.
: SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore, invites applications for its two-year Post-graduate Diploma in Business Administration programme.
The airport would comprise two runways and handle 70 million passengers and 3 million tonnes cargo annually when fully developed.
The victim, Sami, who was passing by Kairana area in a rickshaw, was hit during the firing by SP workers on Sunday.
A stenographer in the office of a sub-divisional magistrate in Jhansi was allegedly passing on sensitive information about the army illegally since 2009
Gwalior District Collector and Senior Superintendent of Police on Saturday ordered separate probes into the alleged attempted suicide by Adarsh Kumar, son of Bihar Cooperative Minister Jai Kumar Singh, studying in the prestigious Scindia School there, officials said.
In the video footage, Rawat is heard threatening the IAS officer: "'Main tumhara jeena mushkil kar doongi'
Undeterred by the threat of coronavirus infection or the 'special corona fee' of 70 per cent levied on alcohol, hundreds of tipplers queued up outside liquor vends in the national capital for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, keeping the police on their toes.
Chinmayanand was the discharged from Lucknow Hospital and was sent back to Shahjahanpur jail.
Complying with the Supreme Court directive, the Union home ministry has asked all states to ban across-the-counter sale of acid in the wake of rising incidents of attacks on women using the chemical.
They have been asked to verify the list of 346 families handed over by the local MP who have allegedly migrated, he said.
Four persons have been arrested and action taken against seven policemen.
Amid the raging controversy over the suspension of IAS officer Durga Sakthi Nagpal, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday defended the state government's decision, saying it would continue to take action against officers involved in "wrongdoings".
Union leaders, who came out of the meeting venue shouting slogans, said the talks remained deadlocked and some of them threatened to boycott any further meetings if no solution was found at Thursday's meeting.
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