Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that the due to the Rafale fighter jet deal, Indian taxpayers will have to pay the Prime Minister’s friend’s joint venture Rs 1 lakh crore over five decades to maintain the aircraft. Taking a dig, he said that Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will[Read More…]
New Delhi: Water released from Haryana‘s Hathnikund added to the continued rains have led the Yamuna river to breach its danger-level mark here on Saturday. Preparations are now on to evacuate people residing in low-lying areas. The Yamuna river’s water level in Delhi crossed the warning mark of 204.83 metres[Read More…]
36 cows were found dead in a cowshed Dwarka, Delhi on Friday afternoon. The cowshed has 1,400 cows and it is suspected that the 36 cows died due to “some disease.” Deputy Commissioner of Police Anto Alphonse said that the cows were of the Acharya Sushil cowshed. Rain water was[Read More…]
New Delhi: A driver working with cab aggregator Ola Cabs was brutally murdered by unidentified men and his body dumped in Bawana canal in west Delhi, police said on Thursday. An Ola cab driver has since been detained for questioning. Police said Salimuddin, a native of Haryana‘s Mewat area, was[Read More…]
New Delhi: Three sisters — aged two, four and eight — were found dead in their house here with autopsy reports suggesting that they died because of hunger, officials said on Wednesday. The government has begun a magisterial probe into the incident that has shocked people in the richest state[Read More…]
Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani had gone to Delhi’s Rajiv Chowk locality on Tuesday when according to a report her driver got into an argument with the parking attendant of E Block. Later the BJP leader left the area without paying any parking fee. According to a report, the duo[Read More…]
A 25-year-old Muslim man was allegedly beaten up by a group of people at a Ghaziabad court where he had gone to marry a Hindu woman, police said on Tuesday. Sahil, who works at a Noida firm, went to the court to register his marriage with Preeti Singh on Monday[Read More…]
Congress president Rahul Gandhi wrote a letter to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), demanding an enquiry into the alleged massive data breach of candidates, who appeared for National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) this year. In the letter to CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal, Gandhi called for putting in place[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs plea challenging an Election Commission order in the office-of-profit case on Tuesday. The AAP legislators have challenged the Election Commission’s July 17 order rejecting their pleas seeking to cross-examine the complainant and advocate Prashant Patel. On March[Read More…]
Telugu Desam Party PMs staged protest outside Parliament premises on Monday morning, July 23, demanding special status to Andhra Pradesh. The parliamentarians protested in front of Mahatma Gandhi Statue, dressed up in fancy attires, roaring slogans and not letting the parliament function. TDP MP Naramalli Sivaprasad dresses up as Annamayya,[Read More…]
Amid the many memes and jokes over Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s wink and hug to Prime Minister Modi during the no-confidence motion debate on Friday, July 20, came the reaction of actor Priya Prakash Varrier who claims Rahul Gandhi had “copied” the wink, which is her signature move. Varrier was[Read More…]
The keenly-watched debate over the no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi government is underway in the Lok Sabha. Amid the many debates running since morning over no-confidence motion, came the jaw-dropping remark from Bihar. RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav, indicating his move of contemplation over no-confidence motion against the NDA government in Bihar. “We are[Read More…]
New Delhi: A 25-year old youth from Manipur was beaten to death here early on Thursday by his cousin over a monetary dispute, police said. The deceased was identified as Suihaimi Khangah A.S by his brother who also stayed with him in a rented flat at Sunlight Colony area of[Read More…]
The Delhi government has sanctioned the budget for the construction of roads and drains in unauthorised colonies here, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday. Good news for those living in hellish conditions in unauthorised colonies. The Delhi government has approved and sanctioned budget for the construction of roads and[Read More…]
The AIADMK with 37 members in the Lok Sabha on Thursday indicated that it might not support the opposition’s no-confidence motion against the BJP-led NDA government. AIADMK Joint Coordinator and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami told reporters in Salem that the no-confidence motion was moved by the Telugu Desam[Read More…]
New Delhi: A 17-year-old student of a government school here died after he was allegedly beaten up by a group of students in the school compound, police said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Wednesday following a scuffle at Jyoti Nagar’s S.K.V school. When the policemen reached the spot, they found[Read More…]
New Delhi: A 28-year-old man, riding on his two-wheeler with his family, was injured after two unidentified men on a bike opened fire at him, police said. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Northeast, Atul Kumar Thakur said that Ashfaq was coming, along with his wife and kid, after meeting his in-laws[Read More…]
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) not to take any coercive steps against the former JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar till Friday. The former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union leader was fined by a university panel in connection with a 2016 incident when anti-India slogans[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Delhi government has announced that “12,748 new rooms will be made including around 10,000 classrooms in its schools in the next one and half years, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said today.” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in a tweet, dubbed the move a “massive infra boost” for the[Read More…]
New Delhi: A day after an air hostess fell to her death in south Delhi, police arrested her husband on Monday after questioning him. Anissa Batra’s family maintained that it was a case of murder even as police registered a suicide case on Sunday. The 39-year-old fell from the terrace[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Delhi government is working to simplify the process to issue OBC certificates for children of single-parent women in the national capital, a Minister said on Monday. If such women, who are residents of Delhi, can furnish their caste certificates, the government will issue the same for their[Read More…]
The Supreme Court has refused to ban the notification issued by the central government regarding the tobacco product. The Center issued notification regarding giving graphic warnings on tobacco and cigarette packets. The court has also refused to ban the government’s decision in which a helpline number will be written to[Read More…]
New Delhi: A youth succumbed to his injuries after a speeding car rammed his bike and dragged him at least 300 metres until police at a picket stopped the vehicle, police said on Saturday. However, the youth’s family said that the victim was crying for help for 25 minutes but[Read More…]
New Delhi: Flooded with complaints of irregularities, Delhi University’s Law Faculty on Wednesday withdrew results for its undergraduate entrance test within an hour of publishing it on its website. The results for the entrance test — conducted online on June 18 — was published at 11 a.m. on Wednesday and[Read More…]
According to the CB Real Estate report entitled ‘Global Prime Office Occupancy Costs 2018’, released on Wednesday, Connaught Place in Delhi is the ninth most expensive office location in the world. Delhi’s Connaught Place moved one notch up to be the ninth most expensive office location with an annual prime[Read More…]