New Delhi, 31/7: The Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday appointed senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjay Arora as the new Commissioner of Delhi Police. Arora, a 1988-batch Tamil Nadu cadre IPS officer was till now serving as the Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. The post of Delhi Police Commissioner…
Ranchi, 31/7:Three Congress MLAs from Jharkhand were stopped in West Bengal’s Howrah district by the police on Saturday evening after a huge amount of cash was found in their vehicle, a senior officer said. Acting on a tip-off, the SUV in which MLAs Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap and Naman Bixal Kongari were travelling was intercepted…
Birmingham, 31/7: Mirabai Chanu bossed the 49kg field as expected to defend her Commonwealth Games title and give India the first gold medal of the Birmingham edition here on Saturday. The Olympic silver medallist aggregated 201kg (88kg + 113kg ) to stamp her authority in the competition and achieve a Commonwealth Games record…
Mumbai, 31/7: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials reached Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s residence early morning to conduct searches at his home in Bhandup. ED is likely to ask Raut to accompany them for questioning in the money laundering case related to the redevelopment fraud of Goregaon’s Patra Chawl. Earlier Raut failed to appear before the…
New Delhi, 30/7: BJP president J P Nadda faced protests by angry student activists on Saturday when he made a brief stopover at Patna College, his alma mater. The activists, most of them members of the Leftist AISA, shouted “J P Nadda go back” while carrying placards denouncing the National Education Policy (NEP) and…
New Delhi, 30/7:National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Saturday said that there are some people who create animosity in the name of religion and ideology which affects the entire nation and to counter this, religious leaders will have to work together. He said that efforts are required to sort out misunderstandings and make every religious…
Rajkot, 30/7: A city sessions court on Saturday rejected the regular bail applications of Mumbai activist Teesta Setalvad and ex-DGP R B Sreekumar who are lodged at Sabarmati Central Jail in connection with an FIR for allegedly fabricating evidence and tutoring witnesses to seek a conviction in 2002 post-Godhra riot cases. Rejecting their…
UK, 30/7;Indian weightlifter Sanket Sargar opened the country’s medal count at the Commonwealth Games by claiming a silver in the men’s 55kg category here on Saturday.The 21-year-old looked on course to win the gold but two failed clean and jerk attempts spoiled his chances as he lifted a total of 248kg (113kg+135kg) to finish second….
Bhubaneswar, 30/7: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik released a book titled Lockdown Lyrics’, a collection of poems written by Smt. Sanjukta Dash. The poems are an unadulterated narration of the author’s experiences and exasperations during the pandemic. She has reflected all the trauma & tribulations and hope & aspirations of humanity during this most…
New Delhi, 30/7:Delhi will revert to its old excise policy on liquor, Deputy CM Sisodia announced on Saturday. The government will go back to its old regime of retail liquor sale in the city. The lieutenant governor had recommended a CBI probe into the implementation of the new excise policy. The Excise…
