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Sukhmeet Bhasin Mansa, August 27 The chargesheet filed by the Punjab Police in a Mansa court in the Sidhu Moosewala murder case yesterday failed to specify the role of any Punjabi singer in the killing, as was being speculated initially. Mankirt alleged threat Punjabi singer Mankirt Aulakh…

Ranchi, August 27Amidst a political crisis triggered by an EC ruling on Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s continuance as an MLA, UPA legislators left Ranchi for Latratu, near the border with Chhattisgarh, only to return to the state capital by evening.The MLAs of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Congress and the…

New Delhi, August 27Justice UU Lalit, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, was on Saturday sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI). President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Justice Lalit at a brief ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.The ceremony was attended by PM Narendra…

New Delhi, August 27As many as 134 former civil servants on Saturday wrote an open letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) against the premature release of 11 men who were jailed for the gangrape of Bilkis Bano. They requested him to rectify this “horrendously wrong decision”.They asked the…

New Delhi, August 27Maintaining that it cannot allow a person being kept incarcerated for a long time without a trial, the Supreme Court has granted bail to two accused from West Bengal languishing in jail for four years in a criminal case.”We can’t permit the situation to prevail where the…

Chandigarh, August 27Haryana government will write a letter to Goa for transferring Sonali Phogat’s death case to the CBI.On the demand from the family, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar gave the assurance to the family members of Sonali Phogat today.Late in the evening, Phogat’s family members had reached Sant Kabir…

Noida, August 27 The stage is set for the safe demolition of Supertech’s twin towers here on Sunday, in what is expected to be a breathtaking spectacle of engineering to raze down the nearly 100-metre-tall structures borne out of corruption. Only last minute inspections remain as the towers—taller than Delhi’s…

Noida, August 27 The stage is set for the safe demolition of Supertech’s twin towers here on Sunday, in what is expected to be a breathtaking spectacle of engineering to raze down the nearly 100-metre-tall structures borne out of corruption. Only last minute inspections remain as the towers—taller than Delhi’s…

IANS New Delhi, August 27 Supertech’s illegal twin towers in Noida, which have been grabbing media attention across the world, will be razed to the ground on August 28 at 2.30 p.m. How was the foundation stone for the buildings laid? The area GH-04 Sector 93-A where Supertech got the…

Ludhiana, August 27 A Ludhiana court on Saturday extended by two days the vigilance remand of former minister and Congress leader Bharat Bhushan Ashu, arrested in an alleged food grain transportation tenders scam. Ashu was produced before judicial magistrate Aarti Sharma here amid tight security arrangements. The court extended Ashu’s…

Chandigarh/Amritsar, August 27With the arrest of seven persons, including a man who had planted an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) beneath the Sub-Inspector’s car in Amritsar, Punjab Police have unraveled yet another case of terrorist-gangster nexus working to disturb peace in the border state as it turned-out to be the handiwork…

Chandigarh, August 27 Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday felicitated 23 sportspersons from the state who represented the country in the recently held Commonwealth Games at Birmingham with cash prizes worth Rs 9.30 crore. Interacting with the players, the CM reiterated the firm commitment of the state government…

Jammu, August 27The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force on Saturday rescued a Hungarian national who was stranded in Kishtwar district of Jammu division.The rescue operation continued for over 30 hours after which the joint teams of the Army and the IAF located the foreign national, identified asAkos Vermes…

New Delhi, August 27The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Sunday to approve the schedule of dates for the election of the next party president.This comes in the backdrop of party veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad’s shocking resignation Friday.Sources said besides giving approval to the polls schedule, the members of…

Bathinda, August 27 Late Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala’s old associates Kanwarpal Grewal and Jyoti Pandher have been booked by Mansa Police for their suspected involvement in his murder. Kanwarpal Grewal is a popular name in Punjabi music industry who reportedly runs a music studio under the name of ‘Folk Mafia’….