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Bihar MLA Anant Singh surrenders in Saket court
New Delhi, Independent MLA from Bihar Anant Singh on Friday surrendered before Saket court here following the recovery of an AK-47 rifle, 22 live cartridges and two bombs from his ancestral house in Mokama on Friday. An FIR was registered against him under the newly amended Unlawful Activities...
INX Media Case: SC to hear Chidambaram's both pleas on Monday
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday granted former Union minister P Chidambaram interim protection from arrest till August 26 in the INX Media case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate. The bench, comprising Justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna, also posted to the same day his plea...
UP looking across national boundaries to touch one trillion dollar economy
Lucknow, With the aim of accomplishing the ambitious trillion-dollar economy mark by 2024, Uttar Pradesh government has started to look beyond the state and national boundaries to faraway Russia and other countries. The state government has mooted the proposal of contract farming by UP...
Sugar mills to defy UP govt orders to clear all cane dues by month end
Lucknow : The sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh are least concerned over the Uttar Pradesh government directive to clear the arrears of the cane farmers for the last season 2018-19 by August 31 as the mills owe Rs 7364.82 crores as on date. Though the Yogi Adityanath government has rewarded the...
High alert in UP over possibility of Afghan terrorists sneaking into country
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh police has sounded high alert in the state particularly on the porus Indo-Nepal border over intelligence input of sneaking of Afghan terrorists into the country from Pakistan side. The alert has been sounded by the UP police in wake of Janamasthami celebrations in...
SC issues notice to Centre on pleas challenging new triple talaq law
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Centre on pleas challenging the constitutional validity of 'The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 that criminalises instant 'triple talaq' . A bench of justices NV Ramana and Ajay Rastogi issued a notice on a...
Modi-Macron call for halting cross-border movement of terrorists including Jaish
Paris,India and France has called upon all countries to work together for rooting out terrorist safe havens and infrastructure, disrupting terrorist networks and their financing channels. In a joint statement after bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel...
PM's UAE visit to further embolden UAE-India ties
New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday evening to give fillip to existing strong bilateral relations between New Delhi and Abu Dhabi. This is his second leg of his visit. This would be his third visit to UAE in the last four years. The prime...
Mayawati distances herself from Ravidas temple demolition agitation
Lucknow: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has distanced herself from violent protests by the Bhim Army over the demolition of the Ravidas temple in Delhi. The BSP chief has also appealed to her party people not to indulge in any kind of violent protests and take law in...
ISRO Chief Sivan presented TN govt's Abdul Kalam award
Chennai, The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday awarded the Dr A P J Abdul Kalam award to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Dr K Sivan, under whose leadership, India's second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2 mission, was launched on July 22. The award was announced...
Ajay Kumar Bhalla to be new Home Secretary
New Delhi, Ajay Kumar Bhalla, a 1984-batch IAS officer, will be the new Home Secretary. He has replaced 1982-batch IAS officer Rajiv Gauba, an official statement said here. Mr Gauba has been appointed as the new Cabinet Secretary, for two years, it added.
We stand by Chidambaram, have faith that law will prevail: Cong
New Delhi, Terming the late night arrest of senior party leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram as an act of 'brazen personal and political vendetta' by the Narendra Modi government, the Congress on Thursday said the party stands by him and expressed confidence that law would prevail in the...
