NEW DELHI: Bomb threats were emailed to courts across India Thursday, sparking panic, mass evacuations and multi-state security sweeps before authorities declared them hoaxes. Messages claiming RDX-based IEDs and suicide attacks forced shutdowns in Odisha, Bihar, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, among others, paralysing judicial work.In Bhubaneswar, an email warned judges and…
NEW DELHI: New Delhi: Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a plea of Allahabad HC judge Yashwant Varma challenging the Lok Sabha speaker’s decision to form an inquiry committee as per Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968, in the impeachment motion moved against him. A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and S C Sharma reserved…
KOLKATA: TMC and I-PAC moved Calcutta high court Thursday challenging the legality of ED searches at the political consultancy’s chief Pratik Jain’s residence and the group’s office, setting up a face-off with the agency that also approached the same bench alleging obstruction. According to details available on HC’s website, TMC’s petition names Union govt, ED…
JAMMU: Security forces recovered a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during a cordon-and-search operation in J&K’s Rajouri district, officials said Thursday.A joint team of the Army and J&K Police launched the operation on Wednesday, based on a tip-off about suspicious movement in the forested belt of Kallar in Thanamandi.The search party found the explosive —…
DEHRADUN: The Government Nursing College in Dobh (Shrikot) village of Pauri Garhwal district in Uttarakhand has been renamed Late Ankita Bhandari Government Nursing College. The renaming was done at the instruction of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. Dr R Rajesh Kumar, the secretary of the state’s Medical and Health Department, issued an order in this…
Renowned Japanese scholar and linguist Professor Tomio Mizokami, Professor Emeritus at Osaka University, is widely regarded as one of the most influential cultural bridges between India and Japan, with a lifelong commitment to Indian languages, literature and education. His contribution was formally recognised in 2018, when he was conferred the Padma Shri, one of India’s…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah will on Friday virtually inaugurate the National IED Data Management System (NIDMS) — a platform for storing, collating and disseminating improvised explosive device-related data for use in post-blast investigations and analytics — at the National Security Guard (NSG) Garrison in Manesar near Gurugram. “NIDMS is a secure, national-level digital…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate and I-PAC moved the Calcutta high court following the ED’s raid at the office and residence of I-PAC chief Pratik Jain. ED moved the court alleging obstruction and interference in the investigations after Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee arrived at the officer’s residence. I-PAC, on the other hand, moved the court…
The Enforcement Directorate accused West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee of obstructing a money-laundering probe. Twelve suspended Congress corporators in Maharashtra’s Ambernath Municipal Council formally joined the BJP, altering local political equations. Bangladesh police arrested the prime accused in the killing of Hindu worker Dipu Chandra Das, marking a key breakthrough in a case linked…
The weapons and military units on display in China’s major parade (Image credit: AP) China, one of the world’s largest arms exporter, has endured a series of humiliating battlefield exposures that have shattered its image as a supplier of reliable defence systems. From Operation Sindoor‘s rout of Pakistani defenses to the swift US raid on…
