Ariz Khan was sentenced to death by the Delhi court on Monday for the murder of police inspector Mohan Chand Sharma and other crimes linked to the 2008 Batla House conference. The police demanded the death penalty for Khan, who was reportedly affiliated with Indian Mujahideen’s terror outfit, and said it was not only a murder but a murder of a law enforcement officer who was a guardian of justice. After Shehzad who was convicted in 2013 and sent to life imprisonment by a court, Ariz Khan s the second person to be convicted
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A court here on Monday directed the Delhi Police to offer copies of blotter to former Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and 9 others during a 2016 sedition case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Pankaj Sharma put up the matter for April 7 to scrutinise documents within the case and also granted bail to seven accused who weren’t arrested within the case earlier. The seven accused include Aquib, Mujeeb, Umar Gul, Rayees Rasool, Basharat Ali, Khalid Basheer who weren’t arrested before filing of blotter. They moved bail applications after which the court granted them bail on a private…
Banking operations including cheque clearance across the country got affected on Monday as bankers under the aegis of the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) have gone on a nationwide strike to protest against the proposed privatisation of two state-owned lenders UFBU, an umbrella body of nine unions, had given a strike involve March 15 and 16, and claimed that about 10 lakh bank employees and officers of the banks will participate within the strike However, branches of personal sector lenders like ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank are open as they’re not a part of the strike In…
Minister of defence Rajnath Singh said on Sunday that development programs in Assam have increased as armed uprising and terror in the state have dropped significantly over the years. Bringing up his maiden election rally in Biswanath, a district bordering Arunachal Pradesh, he said that with thousands of extremist groups belonging to large numbers of insurgents laying their arms during the last five years of Bharatiya Janata Party regime, tranquility and ethnic harmony have restored to Assam after several years. Indicating that the BJP-led government had secured a significant chunk of the Indian-Bangladesh frontier and configured electronic surveillance and devices all along…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was attacked by Minister Smriti Irani on Sunday that the people of the state wanted Trinamool Congress out of Bengal now. In connection she said, bhagao, BJP lao, Bangla bachao.’ Addressing a public rally in Salboni to back Medinipur BJP candidate Samit Das, Smriti Irani said that Mamata had taken undue credit for the welfare schemes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the poor in the state. “PM Modi sent 4 lakh crore from Delhi to help the poor and the growth of the state, but Didi, when you helped the previous Congress Governments…
Pakistan has 75 lakh Hindus who are majorly settled in the Sindh province. But Hindus are harassed and are even abducted and forced to convert to Islam. Recently too, a case of a thirteen year old minor girl was taken away and converted to Islam in Pakistan. Not only that, even the Hindu religious and holy shrines are vandalised. The Hindu group in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa agreed to pardon the mob that vandalized and burnt down a century-old temple in the province. Local clerics and members of the Hindu community arranged a meeting to settle the conflict on Saturday.…
PM Modi is likely to address around four rallies in Tamil Nadu. In this connection, BJP national General Secretary and Tamil Nadu in-charge C.T. Ravi has said that, “There is huge demand for Prime Minister Modi’s rallies and we will try to hold the maximum number of rallies subject to the availability of his time. Senior representatives of the BJP’s coalition members will also share the stage with the Prime Minister at his rallies in Tamil Nadu. “Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E. Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam will share the stage with the Prime Minister,” Ravi said. The…
With each party announcing its candidates, Bhartiya Janata Party announced the names of its 20 candidates for the upcoming elections to the Tamil Nadu Assembly. Bhartiya Janata Party will contest from Tamil Nadu as an NDA partner. BJP Women’s Cell Chief Vanathi Srinivasan will compete against Kamal Hassan from Coimbatore South. “In Tamil Nadu, BJP is contesting as an NDA partner and we’ll be contesting in 20 assembly constituencies spread across all regions of the state. State president L Murugan will contest from Dharapuram. Senior leader H Raja will contest from Karaikudi for the Tamil Nadu assembly election”. Said Arun…
The battle between the ruling YSRCP, Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has begun with the counting of votes for the 2021 Andhra Pradesh Municipal Election started on Sunday morning. The 2021 Andhra Pradesh Municipal Election was a triangular battle between the ruling YSRCP, Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In the Andhra Pradesh Municipal Election of 2021, 12 municipal corporations went to the polls earlier this month. Twelve municipal corporations include Greater Visakhapatnam, Guntur and Vijayawada. Andhra Pradesh Municipal Election 2021 The result is similar to the panchayat polls…
Top Bhartiya Janata Party leaders attended the meeting with regard to discuss Assam elections candidates. PM Modi headed the meeting of the BJP’s central election committee to finalise candidates for the Assam and West Bengal assembly polls. Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP chief JP Nadda were among the participants of the meeting. This was the second meeting of the committee to address candidates for Assembly elections in four states-Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal-and the Union Puducherry Territory. The party has already announced candidates for the first two rounds of elections to be held in Assam and…