India

SGPC to provide free legal aid to man who killed woman for taking liquor in gurdwara

18 May 2023 03:46 AM IST

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) will provide free legal aid to Nirmaljit Singh Saini who was arrested for allegedly shooting dead a woman for consuming liquor on the premises of a gurdwara in Patiala. SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami said people’s religious sentiments are attached to gurdwaras and any violation

Punjab DGP declares Rs 1 Lakh reward for information about drone movement

18 May 2023 03:45 AM IST

Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav has declared a reward of Rs 1 Lakh for providing information about drone movement leading to recovery of weapons and narcotics in the state. In order to keep strict vigil at movement of drones and cross-border smugglers, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann

IAS, IPS lobbies at loggerheads over functioning of ACB

18 May 2023 03:44 AM IST

As the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has started tightening the noose around the corrupt bureaucrats in Haryana, it has caused resentment among the IAS lobby. IAS officer Dharmendra Singh has already been arrested by the police in an old corruption case. It is alleged that he had taken a bribe of

Khattar to hold next Jan Samvad programme at Mahendragarh

18 May 2023 03:43 AM IST

Jan Samvad programme, started by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to go among the people and interact with them as the head of the family to redress their grievances, has now become a new hope for them. The people of the villages are putting forth their demands, suggestions and problems

SC asks state govt to file report on measures taken for violence-hit people

18 May 2023 03:41 AM IST

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will ensure that the political executive does not turn a blind eye to the law and order situation in Manipur, and asked the state government to file a fresh status report on measures taken for security and relief and rehabilitation of the violence-hit

MCD blames lack of cowsheds for cattle menace on Delhi’s road

18 May 2023 03:41 AM IST

A large number of illegal dairies and a dearth of space in the cowsheds are the reasons behind unleashing of stray cattle on the city roads, where driving is increasingly becoming difficult, and dangerous, with the stately jaywalkers often coming in the way. The matter is hardly helped by porous

Police bust drug manufacturing lab in Greater Noida, 9 Africans nabbed

18 May 2023 03:40 AM IST

A drug manufacturing laboratory allegedly set up by foreign nationals inside a residential house in Greater Noida has been busted, police said on Wednesday. Nine people of African origin have been arrested and 46 kg of methamphetamine estimated to be worth Rs 200 crore in the international market has been

Delhi HC refuses to pass interim relief to Gautam Gambhir

18 May 2023 03:39 AM IST

The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to pass an interim order “at this stage” on a plea by BJP MP Gautam Gambhir seeking directions to a media house to withdraw the alleged defamatory publications in which “false, libelous and slanderous” statements have been made against him. The high court, however,

Sc to hear DA case against Shivakumar on 14 July

18 May 2023 03:38 AM IST

The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned to 14 July the hearing on CBI’s plea that challenged a Karnataka High Court order granting an interim stay on the probe into a disproportionate assets case against Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D K Shivakumar. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and

Delhi’s air quality close to ‘severe’

18 May 2023 03:38 AM IST

The air quality index (AQI) in the national capital was close to ‘severe’ level on overcast Wednesday morning while the minimum temperature settled at 25.4 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. Meanwhile, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai has called a meeting of the officials of his department and

Man held for changing engine number of 4,000 vehicles

18 May 2023 03:37 AM IST

A member of an auto-lifter gang, who has fraudulently changed the engine and chassis numbers of around 4,000 stolen vehicles for over a decade, was arrested from northwest Delhi’s Samaypur Badli, police said on Wednesday. The gang has close connections with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and the Goldy Brar syndicate, they

CBI summons former NCB officer Wankhede today

18 May 2023 03:36 AM IST

In another development in the alleged bribery probe in the Aryan Khan drugs-on-cruise case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede asking him to appear before the agency in Mumbai on Thursday. Earlier on Tuesday, CBI, which had booked Wankhede