Latest News

Delhi High Court directs Delhi govt to release ex gratia of 1 crore to family of health worker who died on Covid duty

New Delhi [India], September 26 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has recently directed the Delhi government to release Rs One crore as Ex Gratia compensation to the husband and minor son of the health worker died on Covid-19 duty. The husband of the deceased had moved a petition seeking compensation from the Government. Justice Prathiba M Singh passed the judgment directing the Delhi government to release the compensation amount to the husband and the minor son of the deceased. “It is directed that a sum of Rs. 50 lakhs be released to the Petitioner-Joseph Varghese. The remaining sum of Rs.

Lookout circular issued against ex-Punjab finance minister Manpreet Badal

Chandigarh, Sep 26 (PTI) A lookout circular (LOC) has been issued against former Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, who has been booked in connection with alleged irregularities in the purchase of a property in Bathinda, a top official of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau said on Tuesday. The LOC was issued on Monday after teams of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau conducted raids at the residence of Badal, who joined the BJP after quitting the Congress in January, in Muktsar to nab him. The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has registered a case against Badal and five others in connection with alleged irregularities

Canadian Sikhs stage protests against Indian government over murder

TORONTO/OTTAWA, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Canadian Sikhs staged small protests outside India’s diplomatic missions on Monday, a week after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there may be a link between New Delhi and the murder of a Sikh separatist advocate in British Columbia. Trudeau a week ago stood in parliament to say that domestic intelligence agencies were actively pursuing credible allegations tying New Delhi’s agents to the shooting of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, in June. About 100 protesters in Toronto burned an Indian flag and struck a cardboard cut-out of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a shoe.

India’s BJP, the world’s biggest party, plots election drive of epic scale

KOLKATA, India Sept 26 (Reuters) – Indian activist Partha Chaudhury is on a war footing as he strides out of the ruling BJP’s regional headquarters in Kolkata armed with passion and pages of voter lists. “We need to meet each and every BJP supporter, and all of this has to be done in less than 300 days,” the 39-year-old tells a group of fellow activists advancing into the north of Kolkata, the teeming riverfront capital of West Bengal that’s home to about 15 million people. “We want people to remember that the BJP knocked on their doors much before any

1 … 1,143 1,144 1,145 1,146 1,147 … 1,201