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…]
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Mob attacks Muslim man for choosing to marry Hindu woman outside Ghaziabad court
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…]
Delhi HC to hear AAP MLAs plea against Election Commission on Tuesday
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…]
Sonia Gandhi terms Modi speech as old rhetoric, Rahul says it was weak
New Delhi: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech during no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha as an old rhetoric and Congress President Rahul Gandhi said it was weak. The Congress party termed his speech as dramebaazi (theatrics). The Modi government on Friday passed the no-confidence motion moved[Read More…]
Student beaten to death in Delhi school
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…]
Man shot by two bike-borne assailants in Delhi’s Seelampur
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…]
HC directs JNU, “No coercive actions against Kanhaiya Kumar for now”
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…]
People are more important than industries, Supreme Court tells Centre over pollution deaths
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, while taking into a report that 60,000 people have died due to pollution, told the Centre that people are more important than industries. A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta slammed the Ministry of Environment and Forests after it[Read More…]
Technology is like parasite. Humans are caged inside computers: BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi
Speaking on the 81st birth anniversary celebration of late journalist Prabhash Joshi near Rajghat in the national capital, BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi said that ever grooming technology has trapped humans inside computers. “Technology has entered our lives so much that we cannot get rid of it no matter how[Read More…]
Congress a party of ‘Muslims’: Loopholes in PM Narendra Modi’s claim
An unseemly row has erupted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stepped up attack on Congress and more so against its president Rahul Gandhi. While speaking the other day at a public rally in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Modi claimed that in a recent parley with Muslim intellectuals Rahul assured those present[Read More…]
Delhi: Youth on bike dies after being hit by speeding car and dragged 300 metres
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…]
Delhi’s Connaught Place: World’s 9th most expensive office area
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…]
Burari mass death case: Post-mortem report confirms suicide by 10, 1 still under mystery
Latest development in the mysterious Burari mass death case is the post-mortem report of 10 people of the family, which has confirmed that they committed suicide by hanging. However, the autopsy report of Narayani Devi, the head of the family, who was found dead in another room, is yet to[Read More…]
Justice Lokur slams CM Kejriwal, “Mumbai is flooded with water but Delhi, with garbage”
Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Madan Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta has recently questioned the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, “Who is responsible for the loads garbage in Delhi?” The bench was considering a suo motu writ petition, ‘Re: Outrage as parents end life after child’s Dengue’ and hearing the[Read More…]
Ease of Doing Business Report: Andhra ranks No.1, Delhi No. 23
Andhra Pradesh has secured the top position in the 2016-17 financial year as far as the ease of doing business within a state is concerned. The third edition of the annual rankings, published by the government on Tuesday, showed that Andhra Pradesh amongst 28, is the best state to do[Read More…]
PM Modi launches world’s biggest Samsung mobile factory in Noida
The world’s biggest mobile factory was launched in Noida near Delhi on Monday evening by Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with South Korean President Moon Jae. On board the world-class Delhi Metro with President Moon Jae-in. We are headed to Noida…do not miss the iconic Akshardham Temple in the background![Read More…]
15% hike in housing sales across 9 major cities in April-June quarter
Sales of housing units across nine major cities in the country grew by 15% during the April-June period compared to the previous January-March quarter, a report said on Monday. The total absorption of housing units increased by 15% across top nine cities in India in the second quarter of 2018[Read More…]
Supreme Court upholds death penalty to 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape convicts
The Supreme Court on Monday, 9 July announced death penalty to the convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. Three of the four adult convicts, Mukesh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma, had filed review petitions seeking reduction of the death sentence to life imprisonment. A three-judge bench comprising[Read More…]
In meeting called by Law Commission, most parties oppose simultaneous polls
New Delhi: Most political parties, including those friendly with the BJP, told the Law Commission on Saturday that they are opposed to the proposal of simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies saying that it was against the constitution and would dilute regional interests. Parties that opposed the[Read More…]
Congress will probe BJP CMs misdeeds after coming to power, says Congress
New Delhi: Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of protecting the corrupt BJP leaders including Chief Ministers of various BJP-ruled states, Congress on Saturday said when it comes to power, there will be a thorough investigation on the cases against them and they will be in jail and not out on[Read More…]
BJP not to miss any opportunity eulogising mob lynching
One needs to accept the fact, mob lynching was never a new phenomenon in India but it has attained a normalized form specifically under the Modi government. A dangerous trend of mob violence is grasping India and is becoming the normal way of dealing with displeasure. The right-wing Hindutva brigade[Read More…]
Delhi government to build new hospital in Burari
New Delhi: The Delhi government will build a new hospital in Burari, it was announced on Friday, two days after the Supreme Court said that the Lt Governor’s approval wasn’t required for every decision taken by the council of ministers. Good news for Delhites, a new hospital will be built[Read More…]
Burari mass death case: Tantrik Geeta Maa detained after her confession
In an interrogation, a tantrik Geeta Maa has confessed her role in Burari 11 people death case. Tantrik Geeta Maa has remarked that she pushed the family to commit suicide. Tantrik Geeta has been detained by the police after her major breakthrough in the mysterious Burari death case. The accused[Read More…]
Delhi HC reminds Centre and AIIMS, acid attack victims should be given reservation under PWD quota
Delhi High Court issued a notice to AIIMS and the Centre on Friday July 6, in connection with the petition filed by an acid attack victim over right to employment. The court asked the Central government and AIIMS as why an acid attack victim (petitioner) has been denied reservation under[Read More…]
CM Kejriwal approves ‘Doorstep Delivery Ration’ scheme
Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Friday approved the much debated doorstep delivery of the ration scheme. From his official Twitter handle, he informed that all the objections to the proposal has been over-ruled and said that the Food Department has been directed to implement[Read More…]