NEW DELHI: ED on Friday opposed in Delhi HC a plea by UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari against a trial court order declaring him a “fugitive economic offender”. The agency said when the order was passed in July, the trial court was aware of an assessment order showing property worth Rs 655 crore being surreptitiously…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi‘s disclosure to back his allegations of rigging in Maharashtra polls is akin to “someone cutting the branch he is sitting on” as Congress and its allies won most seats where the number of voters had increased, BJP said on Friday.“This false (Maharashtra) narrative has already been rejected by people thrice and…
NEW DELHI: EC on Friday raised remuneration of officers and staff involved in conduct of polls, while also revising honorarium for deputy district election officers (DEOs) and CAPF personnel engaged in election security.As per the revised rates, a presiding officer will get daily remuneration of Rs 500, up from Rs 350; a polling officer will…
NEW DELHI: A chilling CCTV footage has emerged capturing the brutal murder of Asif Qureshi, cousin of Bollywood actor Huma Qureshi, late Thursday night in Jangpura’s Bhogal Bazar Lane, under the Nizamuddin Police Station limits in Delhi.In the footage, Asif can be seen in a heated altercation with the attackers as several bystanders try to…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor threw his weight behind Rahul Gandhi‘s “expose” on “vote chori” as the party decided to take it forward with a nationwide campaign.Congress general secretary KC Venugopal announced that the party’s state units will screen Rahul’s “landmark press conference” in state capitals on Saturday “to expose the BJP-EC nexus”. Party…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has rejected the plea of alleged AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam middleman Christian Michel James for release on the grounds that he has undergone the maximum seven years of incarceration over charges that led to his extradition from UAE in 2018.“Considering the allegations under Section 467 (forgery of valuable security, will,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the constitutional validity of the ‘sedition’ provision in Section 152 of BNS and tagged the petition on this issue to pending petitions that challenged the validity of Section 124A of IPC.A bench of Chief Justice B R Gavai and justices K Vinod Chandran and N V…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump engaged in a heated phone exchange over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, NBC News reported, citing multiple current and former US officials. The confrontation came after Netanyahu, speaking at an event in Jerusalem on July 27, denied that there was starvation in Gaza, insisting, “There is…
NEW DELHI: Expunging its earlier criticism of an Allahabad high court judge whose verdict it had listed among the “worst,” a Supreme Court bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan on Friday clarified that it had no intention of embarrassing or casting aspersions on the judge.“We must clarify that our intention was not…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday said it would give legal shape to its view that a committee headed by a retired high court judge should administer Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan until Allahabad HC decided the validity of UP govt’s ordinance for development of the temple and its surroundings.A bench of justices Surya Kant…
