Chetan Bhagat, India’s most popular pulp fiction writer, today sought to put his foot down on allegations that he sexually harassed people on WhatsApp. His response comes in the wake of yet a new allegation, four days after a woman leaked a conversation with him...
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LYNCHING: Supreme Court summons home secretaries
The Supreme Court today directed the home secretaries of the states that have not filed compliance reports on anti-mob violence measures to personally appear before it after a week. Hearing a public interest litigation on rising cases of violence by cow vigilantes in July, the...
No plans for Central Cyber Police Force – Home Ministry
Ministry of Home Affairs today denied media reports that said that the center would set up a police force dedicated to fighting cyber crime. Law and order is a state subject in India, and currently cyber crimes are dealt with by state police forces. Earlier...
Shashi Tharoor gets anticipatory bail in Sunanda Pushkar case
Congress politician Shashi Tharoor has avoided going to jail immediately after he won anticipatory bail from a Patiala House court. The bail has been granted with two conditions — he cannot go outside India without taking prior permission from the court, and he should not...
Tharoor reacts: Sunanda Pushkar would never have committed suicide
Politician Shashi Tharoor said his wife would never commit suicide, and termed the charges of abeting her suicide “unbelievable”. “I have taken note of the filing of this preposterous charge sheet & intend to contest it vigorously,” Tharoor said. “No one who knew Sunanda believes...
Delhi Police drops murder charges against Shashi Tharoor; Swamy says will pursue murder angle
Delhi Police has dropped its initial charge of murder against politician Shashi Tharoor in its final chargesheet in the Sunanda Pushkar murder case. Instead, the police has gone with ‘abetment to suicide’ and ‘cruelty’ towards spouse. Initially, the police had started investigations on the basis...
Salman Khan goes to jail with five-year sentence
Bollywood’s second biggest star Salman Khan has been handed a prison term of five years by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Jodhpur in the black buck killing case after a 20-year trial. The sentence implies that Salman Khan is most likely to spend...
Black Buck Case: Salman Khan NOT given 2 years imprisonment
Salman Khan has been convicted of killing a black buck, a protected animal, while out on a ‘hunt’ 20 years ago during the shooting of “Hum Saath Saath Hain”. UPDATE: Media has reported that the actor has been given 2 years of imprisonment, but there’s...
Delhi sees 309 rapes in Jan-Feb; overall crime rate drops
Delhi saw 309 cases of rape during the first two months of this year, up slightly from 307 last year, but reported cases of robbery and burglary showed a sharp decline. Overall crime rate fell as the total number of registered crimes fell to 37,953...
No FIR against Tribune reporter over Aadhaar leakage story – Govt
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said no case has been registered against reporter Rachna Khaira or The Tribune newspaper in relation to the January 3 story on how Aadhaar details were available for sale at Rs 500. The report had claimed that ‘agents’...
NSE seeks data on Nirav Modi case from PNB
National Stock Exchange of India, India’s largest securities trading platform, has sought details from Punjab National Bank on media reports regarding raids by enforcement agencies on the bank’s premises in the Nirav Modi case. “The exchange has advised the company to provide clarification or confirmation...
PADMAAVAT PROTESTS: Haryana DGP warns of ‘strict action’ against miscreants, 31 arrested
Haryana Police denied rumors of widespread violence in the state associated with the exhibition of the film Padmaavat and reassured cinema-goers of ‘full protection’. The assurances come a day after malls and vehicles in Gurgaon, the commercial capital of Haryana, came under attack, allegedly from...
India’s ‘Most Wanted’ was an English teacher in Nepal
Delhi Police said Abdul Subhan Qureshi, founder of Indian Mujahideen and the alleged mastermind behind 2008 Gujarat blasts, was living as an English teacher in Nepal before going to Saudi Arabia in 2015. Qureshi, an engineer by profession, was very comfortable with the Queen’s language...
Aadhaar Face Recognition to help Govt identify people using only a camera
Going by indications from the Unique ID Authority of India, Aadhaar numbers could soon be linked to people’s images, allowing the government and corporations to identify people from their photographs and videos. “UIDAI introduces yet another landmark technology for authentication – Face Authentication,” tweeted @ceo_uidai,...
Make bitcoins illegal – Government of India Committee
Bitcoin users and investors in India could be in for tough times ahead as a high-level, interdepartmental committee set up by the government of India has urged it to crack down on such virtual currencies. The contents of the committee’s report, submitted in August, have...
Indian Govt & Courts block close to 4,000 internet urls in 2016 & 2017
The central government blocked 1,791 urls — websites or pages — and the courts blocked another 2,133 urls in 2016 and 2017, the department of telecom said. This was in addition to around 4,700 child pornography websites that were blocked as part of a CBI...
AAP Govt suspends license of Max Hospital after newborn dies
The Delhi government has suspended the license of the Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh after it was implicated in wrongly declaring a newbord dead. “They cannot take any new patients, but they can continue to treat the existing patients,” Delhi’s health minister Satyendar Jain said....
DENGUE DEATH: Haryana govt probe finds Fortis Hospital guilty
An official inquiry by the Haryana government has found the Gurgaon Fortis hospital guilty of overcharging and several other violations of law, media outlets reported. Quoting the official copy of the report, Mirror Now said that the inquiry committee found the hospital guilty of negligence, lapses,...
Vodafone launches Aadhaar verification via vans in Rajasthan
With the central government breathing down the necks of telecom operators to link all connections with Aadhaar numbers, Vodafone has launched Aadhaar verification vans in Rajasthan to ease the process. The vans were initially launched with the purpose of easing the 4G SIM upgrade process....
RBI fines Religare Finvest Rs 20 lakh
The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a monetary penalty of ₹20 lakh on Religare Finvest for the failure to comply with the directions/orders issued by RBI on an assignment transaction. “An inspection of the company was conducted under section 45N of the RBI Act,...