A court here on Wednesday acquitted two people of the charge of causing grievous hurt to two police officials during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, saying their identification was "shadowed with clouds of doubt". Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala was hearing a case against Abid Ali and Sheru alias Raja, who were accused of being part of a riotous mob that vandalised properties and pelted stones on the main Vijay Park Road during the communal riots on February 23, 2020.
BJP released second list of Lok Sabha election candidates, Anurag Thakur to contest from Hamirpur and Haryana's ex-CM Khattar will stand from Karnal, while Piyush Goyal will field from Mumbai north.
An IIT-BHU graduate was arrested for his alleged involvement in a fake' cancer drug racket on Wednesday, a day after the Delhi Police nabbed seven people in connection with the case. Aditya Krishna (23), who was arrested from Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, worked as a supplier of spurious cancer drugs in Pune and the NCR region, police said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched the Pradhan Mantri Samajik Utthan evam Rozgar Adharit Jankalyan (PM-SURAJ) portal and sanctioned credit support to 100,000 entrepreneurs from disadvantaged sections.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved two corridors of Delhi Metro Phase-IV projects: Lajpat Nagar to Saket G-Block and Inderlok to Indraprastha. The total cost of these two corridors is expected to be Rs.8,399 crore, which will be sourced from Government of India, Government of Delhi, and international funding agencies.
The Delhi High Court has upheld the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal 's(ITAT) order refusing to stay the Income Tax Department's notice to Congress for recovery of outstanding tax of over Rs 100 crore.
The Nayab Singh Saini government has won the floor test in Haryana Assembly. In another development, Saini's appointment by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has been challenged in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, according to LiveLaw.
The State Bank of India (SBI) filed a compliance affidavit in the Supreme Court today stating that the details related to the electoral bonds case have been furnished to the Election Commission of India (ECI). This comes a day after the deadline was set by the top court in connection with the electoral bond case
The National Investigative Agency(NIA) has detained a suspect in the Bengaluru cafe blast case.
PM Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone of three semiconductor projects worth around Rs 1.25 trillion.
Nayab Singh Saini, Haryana's new chief minister proved his majority in the state legislature today. Just weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Manohar Lal Khattar was replaced with OBC leader Nayab Singh Saini as Haryana's chief minister in a swift switch in the state. The 54-year-old leader represents Kurukshetra in the Lok Sabha. Hours after the dramatic resignation of Khattar and his cabinet, Saini, who is the party's state unit president, was sworn in as chief minister along with five ministers at a Raj Bhawan ceremony. Saini on Tuesday stated that his government in the state has the support of a total of 48 MLAs adding that the Speaker has been urged to conduct the floor test on Wednesday. "I want to thank PM Modi, party president JP Nadda, Union HM Amit Shah, and other senior leaders of the party for giving me this responsibility. We will work for the development of the state. We have asked the Speaker to conduct the floor test tomorrow at around 11 am, in the Vidhan Sabha. We have informed the Governor about the support of 48 MLAs," Chief Minister Saini said.
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