The Delhi Police have issued a “sweet warning” to people who are spreading hate messages on social media. DCP New Delhi posted a collage of screenshot on Twitter on Tuesday evening with same message being spread by different handles. “Hey guys! Not done. You have taken the job of spreading […]
Autoclave seized from Chinese ship can be for Pak’s Shaheen II Nuke Missile
Experts from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have confirmed that an industrial autoclave seized from the Chinese ship Dai Cui Yun can be used for the manufacture of very long-range ballistic missiles or satellite launch rockets. The ship was detained by Customs at Kandla Port while en-route to […]
Government threatens to crack whip on social media platforms
Less than a week after communal clashes left 47 people dead and scores injured in north-east Delhi ; the Union home ministry cracked the whip on social media platforms and have even threatened them with criminal action if they fail to act in time, senior government officials, who did not […]
Most of those injured, killed in Delhi riots were young men, shows GTB data
Most of those injured and killed in the two-day communal riots in northeast Delhi were young men, according to data from Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, which received the highest number of casualties and injured. The hospital received 279 persons who were injured in the violence and 38 persons who were […]
SC to rule on validity of RBI ban on cryptocurrency
The Supreme Court will decide on Wednesday, the validity of the 2018 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decision to ban banks from providing services to any individual or business entities dealing with cryptocurrencies, including bitcoins. A bench of justices Rohinton Nariman, Aniruddha Bose and V Ramasubramanian will pronounce the judgment […]
Delhi ‘visa wallah’ seeks magical 10,000 goal
Peter Kaestner (67) has seen 9,258 bird species till date, nearly 90% of all known species which makes him the top birder globally on eBird, a citizen science project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He hopes to round it off to 10,000 soon. But what is extraordinary about Kaestner’s […]
Bombay high court grants bail to convict
The Bombay high court (HC) on Tuesday granted bail to businessman, Vikas Sachdev (41), who was convicted to a three-year jail term by a Special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) court in January for molesting a Bollywood actor on board a domestic flight. The actor was a minor […]
UN rights chief to move SC over CAA, irks India
In an unprecedented move, the UN human rights chief has said she intends to intervene in India’s Supreme Court on the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), prompting New Delhi to assert on Tuesday that no foreign party has such a right in matters related to the country’s sovereignty. The UN […]
Coronavirus update: Search for infected individuals, virus footprint stepped up
At least 46 people in the Delhi-NCR region – and about 100 others across the country – have been quarantined, isolated or put under watch for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), officials said on Tuesday as they launched a massive contact-tracing operation for new infections and ordered reinforcing of health care […]
Coronavirus scare hits Noida school, shut for three days
Panic has gripped parents of a private school in Noida, which has now declared a three-day closure, after it emerged that the children of the Delhi man diagnosed infected by the novel Coronavirus study in the school. The two children of the patient did not attend school on Monday. On […]
Per capita income of Noida residents more than people of Delhi: Yogi Adityanath
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that people living in Noida have greater per capita income as opposed those living in the national capital. “The per capita income of the residents of Noida is more than the people of Delhi,” said Adityanath on Monday. “After the completion of the […]
PM Modi tweets on coronavirus, says no need to panic
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday tweeted some basic protection measures for coronavirus or COVID-19 as he asked people not to panic. “There is no need to panic. We need to work together, take small yet important measures to ensure self-protection,” the Prime Minister tweeted. There is no need to […]
Man who pointed gun at police during Delhi violence arrested from Uttar Pradesh
The man who pointed a gun at a policeman during Delhi’s worst riots in three decades, has been arrested. He has been identified as Shahrukh, a resident of Karawal Nagar in Northeast Delhi, and was arrested by the Crime Branch from Uttar Pradesh, said Delhi Police spokesperson. During the protest […]
PM Modi stings Manmohan Singh for ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ barb
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday delivered a sharp rejoinder to ex-PM Manmohan Singh who had recently expressed concern at the slogan of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. It appears some people get offended by people raising the slogan ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, the prime minister told Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) […]
Father-daughter duo arrested in Pulwama attack probe; NIA says ‘harboured’ bomber
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Pulwama resident and his daughter in connection with last year’s suicide-bombing terror strike on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy, in which 40 troopers were killed. The NIA said that the two allegedly “harboured” main bomber Adil Ahmad Dar, Shakir Magrey […]