Slovakia, 15/5: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting after a government meeting, news agency TASR reported on Wednesday. TASR cited parliament’s vice-chairman Lubos Blaha as saying Fico was shot and injured. A Reuters witness said he heard several shots and that he saw a man being detained by police.
Ranchi, 15/5: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Jharkhand rural development minister Alamgir Alam on Wednesday in connection with a money laundering case, PTI reports citing sources. This comes after the ED grilled Alam for over nine hours on Tuesday. The ED had last week arrested Alam’s personal secretary and state administrative service officer Sanjeev…
New Delhi, 15/5: The first set of citizenship certificates under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) was issued here on Wednesday to 14 people, starting the process of granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslims migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla handed over the certificates to the 14 people after their…
New Delhi, 15/5: The Supreme Court on Wednesday, ordered the release of NewsClick founder and Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha in the UAPA case, LiveLaw reported. The apex court declared his arrest by Delhi police ‘illegal’ noting that a remand application was not provided to the appellant or his counsel before passing remand order on October 4…
Giridih, 14/5 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday attacked the Congress, accusing it of indulging in “shameful” politics and plotting to send “Ram Lala to tent” again. Alleging that the JMM, Congress and I.N.D.I.A. bloc have become the biggest model of corruption, appeasement and dynastic politics, Modi said he has resolved to free India…
Hyderabad, 14/5: A five-month-old baby boy was mauled to death by a dog at a village in Vikarabad district of Telangana on Tuesday. Police said the mother of the infant went out of their single room house this morning as part of her household chores. The dog entered inside the house and attacked the baby…
New Delhi,14/5: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday contended before the Delhi High Court that it will make the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) an accused in the money laundering case stemming out of the Delhi excise policy scam. The ED’s submission was made while opposing the bail plea of former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish…
Varanasi, 14/5: PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday filed his nomination from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi seat for the Lok Sabha elections, in the presence of BJP national president JP Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and other NDA leaders. Before the nominations PM Modi performed…
New Delhi, 14/5: Former Bihar deputy Chief Minister and Rajya Sabha member Sushil Modi breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi on Monday. He had been diagnosed with cancer and had announced his unavailability last month.
Mumbai, 14/5: The death toll in the duststorm-triggered hoarding collapse in Mumbai has mounted to 14 with five more bodies being recovered from the debris. The giant hoarding collapsed over the petrol station and CNG pump in Pantnagar off the Chheda Nagar junction in Ghatkopar off the Eastern Express Highway in Mumbai on Monday evening…
