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Eyes on HSGMC poll, Nalvi floats party
Kurukshetra: Senior vice-president of Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (ad hoc) Didar Singh Nalvi today floated a new organisation to contest gurdwara elections in the state.
No substantial evidence on 39 missing Indians, says Iraq
New Delhi: Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Eshaiker al-Jafari today said his government has no substantial evidence whether the 39 Indians who went missing in Mosul three years ago have been killed or are still alive.
Timeline of Nithari serial rape and murder case
New Delhi: A CBI court on Monday convicted businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surender Koli to death in the Nithari serial rape and murder case.
NIA arrests 7 people, including Geelani's son-in-law, in Kashmir
Srinagar/New Delhi: Seven people including Altaf Ahmed Shah, the son-in-law of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, were arrested today by the NIA in connection with its probe into the funding of terror and subversive activities in the Kashmir Valley, officials said. Shah, popularly known as Altaf Fantoosh, was in the custody of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, who had put him in preventive detention immediately after the festival of Eid earlier this month.
Nithari killings: Koli, Pandher get death sentence for murder of Pinki Sarkar
New Delhi: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court at Ghaziabad gave death sentence to Surinder Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher on Monday in connection with one of the 16 cases of rape, murder, abduction and criminal conspiracy in Nithari, Noida. CBI Special Judge (anti corruption) Pawan Kumar Tiwari, who pronounced the sentence called it a ‘rarest of rare’ case.
GOI launches 'SHe-box' portal for sexual harassment complaints
New Delhi: The Women and Child Development ministry today launched an online platform to enable women employees of the central government to file complaints related to sexual harassment at the workplace.
20 arrested in Ayub Pandith lynching case
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested 20 persons in connection with the mob lynching of DSP Mohd Ayub Pandith here last month, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir, Munir Khan said here today. A militant involved in the killing of the police officer was shot dead in an encounter with security forces on July 12, the IGP said addressing a press conference on the status of the investigations in the case.
Oppn in LS raise slogans protesting lynchings
New Delhi: The opposition today disrupted the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha by raising slogans against the government over incidents of cow vigilantism, but unlike previous occasions, the proceedings were not adjourned even as the ruckus continued for over an hour.
Chairman of Infosys foundation Sudha Murthy was called 'cattle class'
New Delhi: "Go and stand in the economy class queue. This line is for business class travelers," a well-heeled lady told Sudha Murthy at the International Heathrow airport in London. The chairman of Infosys Foundation was at the airport wearing a salwar kameez, which perhaps made her a misfit in the queue in question.
Bihar district magistrate denies saying ‘sell wife if you can’t build toilet’
Bihar: The district magistrate of Bihar’s Aurangabad Kanwal Tanuj has denied he made comments that those who cannot build a toilet should sell their wives, saying he was trying to appeal to the “self-respect of the people” during a drive to promote the Swacch Bharat or Clean India campaign.