Denied a visa to visit the United States, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took to video conferencing to address Indian-American community, saying his idea of secularism is "India First".
Denied a visa to visit the United States, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took to video conferencing to address Indian-American community, saying his idea of secularism is "India First".
Doctors of a Singapore hospital who had treated the December 16 gang rape victim were on Saturday asked by a court here to depose as witness through video conferencing.
A Yamaha company representative told a Mumbai court trying the 26/11 terror attack case on Thursday that the outboat machine used in the boat used by the terrorists to reach Mumbai was imported by Pakistan from Japan.
A dry run for COVID-19 vaccination will be conducted by all state and union territory administrations on January 2 to test the linkages between planning and implementation and to identify the challenges, the Centre said on Thursday.
The DMK, AIADMK, PMK, BJP gear up for next May's assembly elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the revamped Vadnagar railway station where he sold tea during childhood and recalled those days, expressing a desire to visit the new-look facility.
A Delhi court on Saturday extended by 14 days the judicial custody of diplomat Madhuri Gupta, who has been arrested for allegedly passing classified information to Pakistani intelligence officials.
Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that he plans to return to Pakistan in January, two months ahead of what he had announced previously, as a confrontation appears brewing between the army and the government over the memogate affair.
Against the backdrop of abduction of the collector of Maoist-hit Malkangiri, Home Minister P Chidambaram interacted with collectors of nearly 60 Naxal-affected districts and asked them to contact him if they face any problem in executing development plans.
She was seen at the ongoing Lakme Fashion week.
According to a close aide of the CM, his office-cum-residence 'Krishna' has been sealed for five days for sanitisation after some staff tested positive for the virus. This is the second time the office has been shut.
Even though it is faced with numerous challenges, India is evacuating its people from the war-ravaged Afghanistan and will continue to do, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday while unveiling the renovated Jallianwala Bagh memorial through video conferencing.
The government may make a fresh diplomatic move with Denmark after it refused to file an appeal in its Supreme Court for the extradition of Kim Davy, an accused in the Purulia arms drop case, to India.
India has to create a new model of innovation for sustainable and inclusive growth and for empowering its poor, said Sam Pitroda, head of the National Innovation Council (NIC).
Police Inspector Ramesh Mahale may be the first investigation officer who will testify in a neighbouring country's court case through video-conferencing, if the Pakistani anti-terrorist court agrees to the appeal mad by prosecutors arguing the 26/11 case in Pakistan.
Pakistani prosecutors on Monday filed an application seeking permission for an Indian magistrate and a police officer to depose via video conferencing in the anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
A court in Panchkula, Haryana on Thursday extended the judicial custody of Swami Aseemanand till June 7 after the National Investigation Agency assured the judge that a chargesheet will be filed against the Samjhauta blast case accused before the next date of hearing.The hearing in the case took place through video-conferencing, with the accused lodged in a central jail in Ambala.
The judicial custody of Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, arrested for allegedly raping his domestic maid, was on Thursday extended till August 13 by a Mumbai court.
Indians love to talk. And, these days, they can talk to their hearts' content by paying very little: calls are getting ever cheaper, entry-level mobile handsets sell for under Rs 800, and bundled offers (talk-time and handset) mean you can be connected for next to nothing.
Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Thursday directed officers to take stringent action against harbourers and overground workers of terrorists to end terrorism in the Union territory.
According to an official statement, Modi, at a high-level meeting, instructed relevant officials to remain vigilant, closely monitor developments in Sudan and evaluate safety of Indian nationals there.
The 51-year-old sect head is currently serving a 20-year prison term in Rohtak's Sunaria jail for raping two of his women followers.
The Saket court on Tuesday extended the police custody of Aftab Poonawala to four more days after he was produced before the court via video conferencing in a special hearing.
The top court, which refused to pass any interim stay order on the quota, said chances of physical court seem remote due to the persisting COVID-19 pandemic. A bench of Justices L N Rao, Hemant Gupta and S Ravindra Bhatt asked the parties said that all parties should sit together and decide on modalities of hearing like who will take how much time and no one shall repeat the arguments.
'These new laws give complete (impunity) to the police.' 'Whatever little accountability the police had, all that is gone now.' 'There is no accountability mechanism against the police for abusing or misusing in the new laws.'
The actor, through video-conferencing during the Satyamev Jayate Water Cup 2017 event organised on Sunday evening in Pune by his NGO Paani Foundation, revealed that he has been diagnosed with swine flu.
During the monsoon session, which began on Monday, the Opposition is seeking to corner the government on its handling of the standoff with China along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh, the COVID-19 situation, economic downturn and unemployment, and is pressing for discussions on these issues.
Three among the bigger courtrooms will be readied within that time for physical hearing, while adhering to the prescribed distancing and other norms and as per medical advice.
Malik again insisted on his physical appearance in the hearing on the killing of four Indian Air Force personnel in 1990.
The Bombay high court on Thursday said Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, shall remain admitted in a Mumba-based private hospital till June 18 as he is suffering from Covid-19.
"Non Resident Indians having relevant qualification and experience in Engineering or basic sciences are being inducted into the Defence Research and Development Organisation under a talent hunt scheme," Defence Minister A K Antony informed Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The talent hunt is being conducted through video-conferencing on adhoc basis and the posts subsequently advertised for regular inductions, he said.
The SC sought a status report from the Centre by Tuesday on the measures taken in view of the large-scale migration of labourers from cities
Before leaving for Mumbai on Tuesday, Parrikar held a series of meetings, including one with senior state ministers.
The railways also rolled out its first orange coloured Vande Bharat Express from Kasargod to Thiruvananthapuram, a high demand route which now operates two such trains, a senior Indian Railways official said.
The SC asked special judge to control the proceedings in accordance with law so that inordinate delay that is beyond the time-frame is no longer breached.
'When there was no crime committed, everything had to be fabricated. They see it as a war, and everything is fair in love and war.'
"I see a third to fourth of a chance of a double dip (in the US economy)," noted American economist and former chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States, Alan Greenspan, said while addressing an audience through video-conferencing during an award function in Mumbai on Wednesday.
American Michael Wardian was the last runner standing in the 'Quarantine Backyard Ultra' on Tuesday as the endurance athlete took the title after completing 422km in 63 hours. Wardian's reward was what the organisers described as the "world's most coveted prize" - a golden toilet paper roll.
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