Author: Rohan Dua

NEW DELHI: In an ironical twist, bordering fallacy, Yasin Malik had tried to invoke the principles of non-violence espoused by Mahatma Gandhi. Even as a Special Court in Delhi announced life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 10.75 lakh on the separatist leader in the 2017 terror funding case, it said that though he gave […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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: 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 […]

  BENGALURU: India’s ongoing three-day mega conclave, Semicon 2022, in Bengaluru saw a major breakthrough as multinational chip manufacturer ISMC announced to set up its  65nm analog semiconductor fabrication plant in Karnataka’s Mysuru, making it country’s first such unit to manufacture and supply wafers for mobile and smart devices. ISMC is a venture between Israel-based […]

  BENGALURU: Indian oil and metal major Vedanta has said the company has been offered free land, up to 350-acres, by several states in the country as it bids to enter the semiconductor and display fabrication industry with Taiwan major Foxconn which will also make it India’s first chipmaker. Foxconn is the company behind the […]