NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday arrested Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, the founder of Al Falah University, which came under scrutiny after the alleged involvement of three of its MBBS course professors in a terror module behind the i20 car blast near Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10. Siddiqui, Chairman of Al Falah group,…
Minister Jaishankar meets Russia’s Putin in Moscow NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday during a meeting of heads of SCO delegationsThe meeting comes a day after Jaishankar called on his counterpart Sergeoy Lavrov in Moscow.”Called on President Putin along with other Heads of SCO Delegations this afternoon,”…
NEW DELHI: In a big diplomatic win for India, Anmol Bishnoi, a key accused in the Baba Siddique murder case has been deported from the United States and is scheduled to arrive in India on Wednesday, news agency PTI reported citing officials. This comes a year after the Mumbai police initiated the process for Anmol’s…
Tejashwi Yadav and Rohini Acharya (File photos) NEW DELHI: Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Rohini Acharya, who disowned the family after RJD’s Bihar poll debacle, took another potshot at brother Tejashwi Yadav, saying those who called her kidney “impure” should first “donate their kidneys in his (Lalu’s) name” to the needy.Rohini said those who claim to…
Shehzad Poonawalla (ANI image) NEW DELHI: BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress after its MP Imran Masood referred to suicide bomber Umar Un Nabi as a “misguided youth”.Accusing the Opposition party of prioritising “vote bank niti over rashtra niti”, he said the Congress had repeatedly attempted to soften…
Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam NEW DEHI: During a Supreme Court hearing on bail plea in the 2020 Delhi riots case, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, “There was an attempt to divide society on communal lines, it was not merely an agitation against CAA,”Tushar Mehta told the top courtStrenuously“First of all, that myth to be busted….
Eighteen members of a family were among at least 45 Umrah pilgrims from Hyderabad charred early Monday in a bus inferno triggered by a highway collision with a fuel tanker while travelling from Mecca to Medina in Saudi Arabia. Mohammed Shoeb, the lone pilgrim to survive, escaped because he was seated beside the driver when…
NEW DELHI: Amid a threat of additional levies for trade ties with Russia, an official on Monday said that countries will decide on trade based on their interests.“…for each country, trade with other countries is based on their bilateral relationship, (it is) based on their economic requirement and these carry on. In addition, every country…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Monday ordered a ‘special revision’ (SR) of the electoral roll in Assam, due for assembly polls next year, with Jan 1, 2026, as the qualifying date. The SR will involve mandatory house-to-house (H2H) verification but differs from the special intensive revision (SIR) in that it will not seek documentation from…
PATNA: A visibly emotional Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who has been publicly accused by sister Rohini Acharya of misbehaviour and attacked by elder brother Tej Pratap, on Monday told RJD MLAs that they were free to elect someone else as their legislative party leader before his father and party patriarch Lalu Prasad quickly intervened to say…