NEW DELHI: India on Friday strongly rejected accusations by Bangladesh’s interim government that New Delhi was involved in fuelling the recent violence in Khagrachhari district of the Chittagong Hill Tracts terming it “false and baseless”.Responding to a question on Bangladesh home adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury’s remarks, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said:…

NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Friday called the Pakistani forces’ brutality on protestors in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) “horrific”, adding that it is a “natural consequence of Pakistan’s oppressive approach,” after 10 people were killed and many injured. Addressing the weekly press briefing in New Delhi, the MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that…

Chaitanyananda Saraswati in police custody (ANI) NEW DELHI: Self-styled godman Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati, also known as Parth Sarthy, was remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody by a Delhi court on Friday after the completion of his five-day police custody, reported news agency ANI.The 62-year-old, Chaitanyananda, was produced before a judicial magistrate Animesh Kumar at Patiala…

NEW DELHI: The Madras high court on Friday said that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) had been formed to investigate the Karur stampede that killed 41 on September 27. It prohibited political rallies along state and national highways in Tamil Nadu until Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) were put in place. The court also dismissed a…