A group of policemen had gone to northeast Delhi’s Chand Bagh to speak with anti-CAA protesters when they came under attack on February 24. A mobile video has emerged showing hundreds of people surrounding a group of policemen and attacking them at northeast Delhi’s Chand Bagh at the height of the violence over the controversial citizenship law. Taken from a terrace on February 24, hundreds of people are seen closing in on a group of policemen from two opposite sides on a road littered with stones. Teargas shells are fired. Then the people are seen running away from the police.…
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Fresh death warrant has been issued for Nirbhaya rapists. All the four convicts to be hanged on March 20 at 5.30 am. The execution of the four rapists in the Nirbhaya case has been deferred three times already. The Delhi government asked for a fresh date for their hanging after the President rejected the last of the mercy petitions on Wednesday. Four men convicted of gangraping a Delhi physiotherapy intern, Nirbhaya, in December 2012 will hang at 5.30 am on March 20, a Delhi court ruled on Thursday. Their execution has already been deferred three times. The most recent date…
US Senator Josh Hawley plans to introduce legislation banning federal employees from using social media app TikTok on their devices and accused the company of sharing data with the Chinese government. Hawley said the proposed ban would apply to government-issued devices and his comments added to growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over trade and technology transfers. “TikTok is scooping up immense amounts of data and they are sharing it with Beijing; they are required to,” Hawley told reporters after a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on big tech’s connections to China. “For federal employees it really is a no-brainer. It’s…
US President Donald Trump spoke to deputy Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and discussed progress towards achieving peace in Afghanistan, the White House has said, the first known call between an American president and the militant group. The historic telephonic conversation took place a day after the Taliban ended the partial truce amidst renewed violence in the war-torn country, raising doubt over the intra-Afghan negotiations that are scheduled to begin on March 10.
The Delhi Police has registered 531 FIRs and arrested or detained 1,647 people in connection with the communal violence in northeast Delhi, an officer said on Wednesday. Forty-seven of the cases were registered under the Arms Act, the officer said. According to police, the police control room (PCR) did not receive any calls of rioting in the past seven days.
The Congress levelling allegations against the BJP as it is unable to manage its own MLAs, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Wednesday. State minister Jitu Patwari on Wednesday alleged that BJP leaders in Madhya Pradesh have taken eight MLAs to a hotel in Haryana as part of a conspiracy to topple the Kamal Nath government. Earlier, Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh also claimed a senior leader of the BJP has taken a Bahujan Samaj Party legislator to Delhi in a chartered flight, alleging that “poaching” attempts were being made by the saffron party on Congress MLAs…
Former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes was totally enamoured by the Indian Ganges. He took to Twitter and posted a picture of him taking a dip in the river Ganges in Rishikesh on Wednesday. “Benefits of cold water immersion in the Holy Ganges are both physical and spiritual #moksha #rishikesh #internationalyogfestival,” Rhodes captioned the picture. The 50-year-old is probably in India as the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is about to begin on March 29. Jonty Rhodes is currently associated with IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab as their fielding coach. Before KXIP, Rhodes was the fielding coach of Mumbai…
President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy petition of the last of the four death row convicts in the gang-rape and murder of the 23-year-old medical student in Delhi dubbed “Nirbhaya”. With this, the convicts exhaust all options for relief from the death sentence. The authorities of Tihar jail, where the men are lodged, said they would approach courts for a fresh date of execution, which has already been deferred thrice. On Monday, a Delhi court had refused to hold the execution of the four Nirbhaya case convicts, who were to be hanged at 6 am on Tuesday. “In…
Amid uproarious scene, Lok Sabha has passed the Vivad se Vishwas Bill, which aims to settle pending direct tax disputes in the country. The bill was passed with certain amendments before the Lower House was adjourned amid clamour over Delhi violence. The Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Bill, 2020, was tabled before Parliament on March 2. First proposed in Union Budget 2020, the Bill was approved by the Union Cabinet on February 12. It seeks to provide taxpayers a lucrative opportunity to settle direct tax disputes within the current financial year by waiving interest and penalty on their pending taxes. The Vivad se Vishwas Bill aims to resolve 4.83…
With the Coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief J.P. Nadda have decided not to take part in Holi get-togethers this year following. This was shared by the two in their tweets on Wednesday. With this announcement by the top party leaders, no other party leader would likely take part in any Holi get-together. “Experts across the world have advised to reduce mass gatherings to avoid the spread of COVID-19…Hence, this year I have decided not to participate in any Holi Milan programme,” the PM tweeted. A similar tweet followed from Nadda. “The world is battling COVID-19. The…