28 booked for 'rioting', trespass' to offer namaz on govt property in UP

Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) (IANS) Twenty-eight persons, three named and other unnamed, have been booked for 'rioting' and 'criminal trespass' by police for allegedly installing loudspeakers and offering mass prayers on a state…

Kerala Police probe PFI, SDPI link in train fire case

Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) Even as the accused in the Kozhikode train fire case, Shahrukh Saifi has deposed before the investigators that he had planned the attack on his own, police have not taken that version at all.

Sources in the Kerala…

Kerala BJP leaders visit Bishop houses on Easter in a move to woo Christians

Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) The BJP leaders of Kerala, including Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan and party national executive member and former state president, P.K. Krishnadas paid visits to the Bishop houses in the state.

Infiltration bid on LoC foiled in J&K's Poonch, one intruder killed

Jammu (IANS) One intruder was killed after a major infiltration bid was foiled by the Army at the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday.

"On the intervening night of 8/9 Apr 2023, alert troops…

Rishra violence: Police prevent fact-finding team from reaching troubled pockets

Kolkata (IANS) The members of a fact-finding team from Delhi, who have come to review the situation at Rishra in Hooghly district where clashes broke out over Ram Navami processions on April 2, were on Saturday stopped by the police from reaching…

After row, Sharad Pawar 'clarifies' on JPC probe remarks, bats for SC panel

Mumbai (IANS) A day after his sensational remarks expressing doubts over a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Hindenburg Research report against the Adani Group, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar on Saturday claimed…

Job scam: ED gets proof of Ayan Sil's involvement in 6,000 hirings

Kolkata (IANS) Enforcement Directorate (ED) has found evidence confirming the involvement of arrested private real estate promoter Ayan Sil in the 6,000 recruitments made in municipalities and state-run schools of West Bengal.

According to…

Akali Dal exposes Rs 200-crore liquor scam in Punjab

Chandigarh (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday exposed a Rs 200-crore liquor scam in the Excise Department in Punjab and demanded a CBI probe into the fraud and arrest of all guilty on the same pattern as followed in Delhi.

Exposing…

HAL hands over 100th Su-30 MKI ROH aircraft to IAF

Nashik/Bengaluru (IANS) Union Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane on Friday inaugurated the third LCA production line and also handed over the 100th Sukhoi-30 MKI ROH aircraft to Air Vice Marshal Sarin at HAL's Nashik Division.

The Signal…

Fake PMO official arrested in J&K to be brought to Gujarat

Ahmedabad (IANS) Conman Kiran Patel, who was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir last month for posing as a top official in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), is likely to be brought to Ahmedabad on Friday night, an official said.

A team of Ahmedabad…