Parliament security breach: Delhi High Court grants bail to accused Neelam Azad, Mahesh Kumawat

New Delhi, 2/7: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted bail to two accused in the December 2023 Parliament security breach case. A bench of Justices Subramonium Prasad and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar granted relief to Neelam Azad and Mahesh Kumawat on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 each and two sureties of the like amount….

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Quad ministers condemn Pahalgam terror attack without naming Pakistan

Washington, 2/7: The Quad grouping of the United States, India, Japan and Australia called on Tuesday for the perpetrators of Pahalgam attack that killed 26 to be brought to justice without delay. The April 22 attack sparked heavy fighting between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan in the latest escalation of a decades-old rivalry as India blamed…

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Cabinet approves Rs 1.07 lakh crore employment-linked incentive scheme

New Delhi, 1/7: The government on Tuesday approved an Employment Linked Incentive Scheme with an outlay of Rs 1.07 lakh crore to support job generation, enhance employability and social security across all sectors, with special focus on the manufacturing sector. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister…

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Stokes dismisses Bumrah factor; declares himself massive fan of Pant

Birmingham: England captain Ben Stokes on Tuesday dismissed the chatter surrounding Jasprit Bumrah’s availability for only three Tests out of five as “India’s problem” and said he is expecting the “passionate” visitors to fight hard in the second Test irrespective of the team composition. Bumrah was by far the best Indian bowler on show at Leeds,…

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South Calcutta Law College expels three accused in gang-rape of student

Kolkata, 1/7: The authorities of South Calcutta Law College have expelled three accused in the alleged gang-rape of a 24-year-old student from the institute, an official said on Tuesday. Prime accused Monojit Mishra, who was a contractual employee at the college, was among those expelled from the institute. Mishra, along with co-accused Zaib Ahmed and…

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Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede: CAT revokes suspension of senior IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash

Bengaluru, 1/7: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on Tuesday morning ordered the suspension of a senior IPS officer in Bengaluru to be set aside. The development was confirmed to DH by Dhanush Menon, the counsel on record for Inspector General of Police (IGP) Vikash Kumar Vikash, who the Karnataka government suspended following the stampede in…

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Surjewala continues meetings with Congress MLAs in Karnataka

Bengaluru, 1/7: AICC General Secretary in-charge of Karnataka, Randeep Singh Surjewala continued his series of meetings with the state’s ruling party legislators for the second consecutive day on Tuesday. As part of the first phase of his one-on-one meetings with the MLAs for three days, Surjewala is today slated to meet about 20 legislators from…

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Firebrand Telangana BJP MLA Raja Singh resigns from party over likely appointment of Ramchander Rao as state chief

Hyderabad, 30/6: Upset over the possible appointment of Ramchander Rao as BJP’s Telangana President, the party’s firebrand MLA Raja Singh on Monday wrote to Union Minister G Kishan Reddy saying that he is resigning from the primary membership of the saffron party. Reddy is presently the state chief and the party high command is likely…

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