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CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday nominated five persons for the Rajya Sabha from Punjab where it stormed to power in recently-held assembly elections. The five nominees include former cricketer Harbhajan Singh, Delhi Jal Board Vice Chairman Raghav Chadha, Lovely Professional University’s (LPU) Founder-Chancellor Dr. Ashok Mittal, IIT Professor Dr Sandeep Pathak, and […]

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee on Monday joined the Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe at its headquarters here in New Delhi, in connection with an illegal coal scam case. Abhishek Banerjee, who is also Lok Sabha MP from Diamond Harbor, arrived at the agency […]

  NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has registered a case against M3M India Private Limited for allegedly cheating a Delhi-based company named MGF Developments Limited of Rs 450 crore. As per the FIR, a copy of which is with The New Indian, the complainant — a senior official from MGF Developments […]

JAMMU: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the biggest achievement of the Central government in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 was “decisive control” over terrorism in the Valley for the first time. Addressing the 83rd CRPF Day Parade program in Jammu, Shah said that the government of PM […]

  SRINAGAR: A total of 64,827 families left the Kashmir Valley in 1990 due to “onset of militancy”, said the Jammu and Kashmir government in an RTI reply, which, activist Praffull Sarda, who sought the information, called “surprising”. The Pune-based businessman criticised the government for not acknowledging that Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave the […]