NEW DELHI: The Parliament on Tuesday passed two bills to replace the ordinances promulgated in November to enable extension of tenure of the directors of the CBI and ED to a maximum of up to five years, which, junior personnel minister Jitendra Singh said has been done by the government to check corruption and ensure…Continue Reading
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi (PTI photo)NEW DELHI: Amid TMC’s push to sideline Congress as the leader of the anti-BJP bloc, key opposition parties represented by their top faces held a brainstorming session at the residence of Sonia Gandhi, a sudden development that appears to be a message to the challenger.…Continue Reading
PM Narendra Modi with Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath in Varanasi on Tuesday. (PTI photo)VARANASI: PM Narendra Modi went on a walkabout past Monday midnight in his parliamentary constituency and took a look at the development work done over the past seven years that has made Kashi, one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities,…Continue Reading
Abhishek Shukla | नवभारत टाइम्स | Updated: Dec 15, 2021, 1:30 AMगिरफ्तार आरोपी की पहचान 27 वर्षीय प्रवीन उर्फ प्रिंस के तौर पर हुई है। वह मूलरूप से रोहतक हरियाणा का रहने वाला है। चोरी की गई डायमंड की अंगूठी भी बरामद कर ली है। आरोपी मुखर्जी नगर में रहकर यूपीएससी की तैयारी कर रहा…Continue Reading
Junior home minister Nityanand Rai informed that Uttar Pradesh not only accounted for the highest arrests of those below 30 (931) under the anti-terror law in the past three years.NEW DELHI: Nearly 57% of those arrested in the country under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act between 2018 and 2020 were below 30 years of age,…Continue Reading
File photo for representationNEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it supports the decision to reserve seats for Other Backward Communities (OBCs) in panchayat and municipal elections, but also added that it cannot provide state governments with the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) data as it is “flawed, inaccurate and unreliable”…Continue Reading
A special POCSO court in Mayurbhanj district on Tuesday awarded a 62-year-old man to 10 years rigourous imprisonment after convicting him of sexually assaulting a two-and-a-half year old girl in 2014. As per sources, a villager of Jamada area in Mayurbhanj district had taken his daughter to a marriage function in March, 2014 where the accused,…Continue Reading
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A 65-year-old woman was shot and killed during what was described as an attempted robbery at a gas station in Virginia Beach, police said.Virginia Beach police said officers responded to a report late Monday afternoon of a person with gunshot wounds, according to a news release. When the officers arrived,…Continue Reading
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Adrian Phillips was thinking the worst as he was lying on his back, his right knee being attended to by the training staff in the closing minutes of the Patriots’ Week 13 win at Buffalo. The safety had just made one of the plays of the game, knocking away a third-down…Continue Reading
The St. Louis-based electric utility Ameren Corp. said in a court filing Tuesday that it will close a coal plant several years early, a move that follows a court order this summer requiring pollution controls that would potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars.The plant sits along the Mississippi River near Festus, Missouri, about 40…Continue Reading