NEW DELHI: Stating that the new criminal laws shall be regarded as the biggest reform since Independence, home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said they will shift the people’s mindset from “what will happen if I file an FIR’ to a strong belief that ‘filing an FIR will lead to prompt justice”.Addressing the programme ‘A…
Activist Medha Patkar (File photo) NEW DELHI: BJP MPs, including former Union minister Parshottam Rupala, stormed out of a parliamentary committee meeting on Tuesday, objecting to the presence of social activist Medha Patkar, prompting the committee head to end the session.Some of the BJP MPs called Patkar an “anti-national,” and one wondered if the “prime…
KOLKATA: Calcutta high court on Tuesday asked police to ensure that rallies and marches do not occupy more than one-third of a road’s width, leaving the rest of space for vehicular movement so that commuters do not suffer.Justice Tirthankar Ghosh’s direction to Kolkata Police came while granting permission to Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha to hold…
Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin transferred the Sivaganga custodial death case probe to the CBI on Tuesday after the state govt came under sharp criticism from Madras HC and opposition parties.The development comes the same day that a video surfaced of Ajith Kumar being assaulted by policemen in civilian clothes in a shed behind…
NEW DELHI: Congress had approached Election Commission on June 30 seeking an “urgent” meeting “any time after 4 pm on July 2” between the poll panel and a delegation comprising 10 opposition parties to discuss the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of rolls in Bihar. However, EC, despite writing back to each of the 10…
PM Modi emplanes for Ghana NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the landmark five-nation tour on Wednesday, with visits lined up to Ghana, Trinidad & Tobago, Argentina, Brazil, and Namibia between July 2 and 9. The wide-ranging trip is aimed at enhancing India’s deepening engagement with the Global South and its commitment to…
Insurance scam: Officials from 50 firms, finance ministry meet in Sambhal to plug gaps leading to frauds MEERUT: Six months after a multi-crore insurance scam surfaced in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district, senior officials from the Union finance ministry, insurance regulatory bodies, over 50 insurance companies, and investigative agencies met in Sambhal to plug critical policy…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar with American secretary of defence Pete Hegseth. NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday (Tuesday in the US) held a bilateral meeting with American secretary of defence Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, where he underlined the strategic importance of India-US defence ties, describing them as “one of the…
NEW DELHI/SHIMLA: Shimla police registered an FIR against rural development and Himachal Pradesh minister Anirudh Singh Rana late Monday night for allegedly assaulting two NHAI engineers officials who were visiting the site of a collapsed five-storey building.The FIR was registered on the basis of NHAI manager Achal Jindal’s complaint at Dhali police station under five…
NEW DELHI: The Quad foreign ministers meeting on Tuesday condemned the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 22, which claimed the lives of 26 people, and said that perpetrators should be brought to justice.In their statement, the ministers expressed condolences to the families of victims and urged for immediate justice.“We condemn in…
