Narendra Modi has asserted that the world needs to unite against covert or open support to all forms of terrorism as some countries support terrorism as part of their foreign policy. Addressing the 3rd Ministerial Conference “No Money for Terror” in New Delhi today on curbing the flow of money to terrorists, Modi said that countries supporting terrorism should be fined. The Prime Minister said that it is known to all that terrorist groups get funds from many sources, one of which is the support of some countries. Modi said that wherever terrorist attacks take place, they should be taken seriously and…
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Sukesh Chandrasekhar, a gangster lodged in Delhi’s Mandoli Jail, has exploded another letter bomb on Thursday. Releasing the letter through his lawyer Anant Malik, Sukesh has accused AAP leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, of demanding bribes in 2016 in exchange for supplying tablets to students in schools. He said in the letter that in the year 2016, he had told Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain about a Chinese company for supplying tablets to model schools in Delhi. The Delhi government made a deal with a Chinese company to give tablets to young children, in…
Bharatiya Janata Party has released a sting video of Aam Aadmi Party leader Mukesh Goyal in which he has been accused of demanding bribe in exchange for ticket for municipal elections. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, party spokesperson Sambit Patra accused Goyal of demanding bribe in exchange of tickets, saying that he had a very important role in the distribution of tickets. He alleged that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was the driving force behind whatever was shown in the sting. The BJP spokesperson said, ‘You will hear from the mouth of that leader himself how he is demanding money…
As part of an ambitious plan to reach the Moon, the US space agency, NASA’s most powerful rocket Artemis today took off on the Moon mission. The 98 meter tall Artemis spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in the US. The vehicle flew in the sky with a speed of 160 kilometers per hour. This is a major step in the direction of the US to land astronauts on the Moon again after the end of the Apollo campaign 50 years ago. Twelve astronauts landed on the Moon during the six Apollo missions from 1969 to 1972. The Artemis mission was…
ACB has arrested PA and another relative of Aam Aadmi Party’s Model Town MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi. For the Aam Aadmi Party ticket in the municipal elections, a deal was made with a businessman named Gopal Khari for Rs 90 lakh. When the ticket was not received even after paying Rs 55 lakh, Gopal Khari complained to the ACB. The ACB caught the three red-handed while returning Rs 33 lakh from Model Town by laying a trap. Out of this Rs 35 lakh was given to Tripathi and Rs 20 lakh to Wazirpur MLA Rajesh Gupta at the behest of Tripathi. After receiving…
The ED is questioning Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in a money laundering case related to alleged illegal mining leases in Sahebganj. Soren reached the ED office at around 12.30 pm amid tight security arrangements. The central probe agency has prepared a list of over one hundred questions to question him in the alleged mining scam of over Rs 1,000 crore. A team of ED officials from Delhi reached Ranchi. Hemant Soren’s political aide Pankaj Mishra and two others Bachchu Yadav and Prem Prakash have already been arrested in this case. The district administration has imposed section 144 in Ranchi. Meanwhile, supporters of the…
A Delhi court on Thursday allowed the city police to interrogate Mehrauli murder accused Aftab Amin Poonawalla for five more days. The court also allowed his ‘Narco Test’ to be conducted to crack the case. Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shukla passed the order while accepting the police’s plea in the matter. According to the police, 28-year-old Poonawalla allegedly strangulated his ‘live-in partner’ Shraddha Walkar (27) to death on the evening of May 18 and cut her body into 35 pieces, which he dumped in South Delhi. K kept it in a 300 liter fridge at his residence in Mehrauli for about three weeks…
At least six people have been killed and five others injured in a powerful earthquake that struck the Himalayan region late on Tuesday. Tremors of the earthquake were felt in parts of Nepal and also in northern India, causing deep sleepers to suddenly run out of homes in the middle of the night. According to India’s National Center for Seismology, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck at 1:57 pm, with its epicenter in Nepal, about 90 km east-southeast of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand. Earthquake tremors of low intensity have been felt several times in the region over the past few days. Earlier, two tremors of…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said Himachal Pradesh needs a stable and strong government with a “double engine”. He blamed the Congress for ‘instability, corruption and scams’. Addressing an election rally in Kangra district, Modi hit out at the Congress and accused it of “betraying” the state when it was in power at the Centre. Citing the examples of Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, Modi said there is so much anger among the people against the Congress that it has not got a chance to come back to power in many states for decades. Referring to the return…
The first semi-final of the ICC T-Twenty Cricket World Cup is being played between New Zealand and Pakistan in Sydney today. Earlier, New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat first. India and England will face each other tomorrow in the second semi-final in Adelaide. The final match will be played in Melbourne on Sunday. India topped Group 2 by winning the final league match against Zimbabwe in Melbourne on Sunday. India is the only team in the tournament to have won the group’s four league matches.