A strong protest was lodged against the Iranian envoy Javed Zarif for making comments on India’s internal matter. The Iranian Ambassador in Delhi was summoned on Tuesday, sources said. India today summoned Iranian Ambassador Ali Chegeni to lodge a strong protest over comments made by Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, after violence in parts of Delhi last week left 48 dead and hundreds injured. Official sources said it was conveyed to Mr Chegeni that the Iranian Foreign Minister’s comment was on matters purely internal to India. “The Iranian Ambassador in Delhi was summoned on Tuesday and a strong protest was…
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Supreme Court interlocutors start their second round of negotiation with Shaheen Bagh protestors. The Supreme Court-appointed interlocutors Sanjay Hegde and Sadhna Ramachandran visited the Shaheen Bagh protest site today. Indirectly urging protestors to clear the protest site by Holi, the interlocutor said, “We expect our sisters will send love to India on the occasion of Holi from Shaheen Bagh. Sisters can give Holi gift in advance. We will celebrate Holi this month. We will hug each other on Holi.” They duo told protestors all their demands had been conveyed to the Supreme Court. “Whatever you wanted, we conveyed it to…
A day after Mohd Azam Khan”s brother-in-law Zameer Ahmad Khan said that the former was upset with his Samajwadi Party (SP) for not supporting him in his hour of crisis, the Congress has stepped in to corner the SP for ”abandoning” their leader. Uttar Pradesh Congress minority cell president Shahnawaz Alam has said that by not standing in support of Azam Khan, the SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has sent out clear signals about his future politics. “It is shameful that a leader who has given thirty years of his life to a party is being isolated in this manner. If…
The state BJP unit’s media cell came up with a video on its social media handle claiming that these people have given missed call on the mobile number that Union Home Minister Amit Shah shared with the public while launching the programme during his rally at the Sahid Minar maidan on Sunday. “Over 1.5 lakh people have given missed call on the mobile number,” said the video, urging the public to join then programme in greater numbers. “It is a campaign to change the government in Bengal,” Shah said at the rally. During the campaign the BJP workers will conduct…
As the deadly coronavirus reached the national capital a day before, two private schools in Noida were shut on Tuesday after father of one of their students tested positive for coronavirus, while several people, including his family members, were quarantined or kept in isolation as authorities stepped up prevention efforts including extending suspension of existing regular and e-visas to nationals of four other affected countries. Officials said that the sample of an Italian tourist in Jaipur which was sent to National Institute of Virology, Pune was found to be positive after the first two tests gave contradictory results. With this,…
The Indian Navy has postponed its naval exercise Milan 2020, scheduled from March 18-28 at Visakhapatnam amid Coronavirus fears. “It is for information that MILAN 2020 – a multilateral naval exercise scheduled to be conducted by the Indian Navy from 18 to 28 Mar 20, at Visakhapatnam, has been postponed taking into consideration the safety of all participants and travel restrictions imposed by the spreasd of COVID-19,” an official statement said.
The Supreme court on Monday decided to hear on March 4 a plea seeking registration of FIRs against politicians for hate speeches which allegedly led to violence in the national capital. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde agreed to hear the plea filed by riots victims. The petition was mentioned for urgent listing by senior advocate Colin Gonsalves, appearing for the riots victims. Gonsalves said that the Delhi High Court has deferred for four weeks the matters related to riots in the national capital despite the fact.
The National Investigation agency has made two arrests in connection with Pulwama attack. The attack on the CRPF convoy, moving from Jammu towards Srinagar on February 14 last year in Pulwama, with an IED-laden vehicle by a Jaish suicide bomber had claimed lives of 40 CRPF personnel. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made two more arrests in connection with the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 jawans from the Central Reserve Police Force were killed. The NIA, which is investigating the case, on Tuesday arrested a Pulwama resident and his daughter. The two are suspected of “harbouring” Adil…
Mohammed Shahrukh, whose videos and images of waving a gun at Delhi Police personnel in the Jaffrabad-Maujpur area last Monday when violent clashes broke out, has been arrested. Shahrukh had been absconding ever since the incident last week in which he threatened a police officer with a gun and even fired 8 rounds as rival groups pelted stones each other on the road. Now, after a week, Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested Shahrukh from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. Earlier it was reported that Delhi Police had managed to arrest Shahrukh within days after he was caught on camera waving a…