Author: Pramod Kumar Singh

  NEW DELHI: A special NIA court in Delhi on Wednesday announced life imprisonment for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, four years after he was booked in terror conspiracy and also less than a month after he pleaded guilty by deciding to not contest the charges. Special NIA Judge Praveen Singh at Patiala House Court […]

  NEW DELHI: In a major setback to the cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced him to one-year rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs 1000 in a three-decade-old road rage case. Sidhu who till recently was the president of the Punjab Congress Committee was acquitted by the apex court in […]

VARANASI/NEW DELHI:  On a day when the Supreme Court is to resume hearing in the Gyanvapi Mosque case in Varanasi , a survey-finding commission report has stated that not just a Shivling but as many as four idols of Hindu gods and goddesses and a Sheshnag have been discovered during digging between barricading of Kashi […]

  NEW DELHI: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting with top officials and reviewed preparations for the Amarnath Yatra 2022. The annual pilgrimage is slated to start on June 30 and will culminate on August 11 of the current year. Amarnath Yatra will commence after a gap of […]

VARANASI/NEW DELHI:  A civil court in Varanasi on Monday decreed that entry of Muslims would be barred from a site inside Gyanvapi mosque complex while citing the discovery of a  12 x 8 feet Shivling — a representation of Hindu Lord Shiva — three days after a four-member survey team was formed to video-graph the […]

NEW DELHI: After years of silence over a betting scandal in cricket, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered two First Information Reports (FIRs) to probe the alleged betting and match-fixing in the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) held in 2019, with clear links over a phone number traced to Pakistan. In the first […]

NEW DELHI:  Tripura chief minister Biplab Dev, also the first by the BJP in this hill state, on Saturday resigned as the state head, triggering an immediate meeting of party’s legislators led by Union minister Bhupendra Yadav and MP Vinod Tawde, both of whom were rushed to oversee the election of new leader. The meeting […]

NEW DELHI: Hours after the Supreme Court of India put the contentious Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, popularly known as ‘Sedition Law’, in abeyance and urged the state governments not to register fresh FIRs under this law till a government-formed committee re-evaluates its framework, a war of words erupted between the ruling Bharatiya […]

NEW DELHI: Separatist leader Yasin Malik, who has been advocating breaking Kashmir from India, has accepted all charges against him in a terror funding case in the Patiala House court. The former chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front,  the outfit that almost destroyed Kashmir and put its locals in an ugly face-off with India’s security […]

NEW DELHI: Unknown men fired at heavily-guarded Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali’s sector 77 on late Monday evening in a daring attack, stoking memories of a dreadful strike by pro-Khalistani outfits in 1995 leading to the killing of then Punjab CM Beant Singh. Sources in Punjab Police said that a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG)-like […]