Delhi High Court grants statutory bail to Sharjeel Imam in UAPA, sedition case

Sharjeel Imam

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday granted statutory bail to Sharjeel Imam in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and sedition case related to his alleged inflammatory speeches at Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia area against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Despite this, Imam will remain in jail due to his involvement in the larger conspiracy case concerning the 2020 Delhi riots, which also involves UAPA charges. The Division Bench...

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Prajwal Revanna books flight to Bengaluru Friday, likely to be arrested at airport

Prajwal Revanna

Bengaluru: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) sources confirmed Wednesday that the prime accused in the sex video scandal, JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, has booked a flight ticket to India May 31. Sources said Prajwal Revanna had booked a ticket with Lufthansa Airlines and was expected to reach Bengaluru at around 12.30am Friday. The ticket has been booked from Munich, Germany. In a video released earlier, he had said that he would...

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Man hacks to death eight members of his family in MP’s Chhindwara; later hangs himself

Chhindwara: A ‘mentally disturbed’ man allegedly hacked to death eight members of his joint family with an axe in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district Wednesday and later committed suicide by hanging himself, police said. The incident took place at around 2:30am in Bodal Kachhar village and the reason behind it was not yet clear, they said. The man, identified as Dinesh Sariyam (26), who was "mentally disturbed", got married May 21, Superintendent...

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Supreme Court registry refuses urgent listing of Kejriwal’s plea for extension of interim bail

Arvind Kejriwal

New Delhi: The Supreme Court registry Wednesday refused the urgent listing of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's plea seeking an extension of his interim bail by seven days for undergoing certain medical tests. The apex court registry refused to accept the application, saying since Kejriwal was given liberty to move the trial court for regular bail, the plea is not maintainable. Tuesday, a vacation bench comprising Justices JK Maheshwari and KV...

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Mizoram: Rescue operations on to find missing victims of landslides

Mizoram: Rescue operations on to find missing victims of landslides

Aizawl: A day after 25 bodies were recovered from debris caused by massive landslides due to incessant rain across Mizoram, rescue operations continued Wednesday to locate missing persons, an official report said. According to the morning bulletin of the Mizoram State Disaster Management Authority (MSDMA), rescue operations began early morning to find the missing people at several...

Alia, Priyanka, Kareena and many celebrities stand in solidarity with Palestine

New Delhi: Prominent Indian celebrities, including Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Alia Bhatt and Kareena Kapoor Khan, have shown solidarity with Palestine after an Israeli airstrike on a camp in Rafah killed 45 people. Israel has faced condemnation for the strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that local health officials said killed at least 45 Palestinians, including...

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Stock markets fall for 4th day on profit-taking; Sensex down 667 pts

Mumbai: Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty declined nearly 1 per cent Wednesday, falling for the fourth day running amid profit-taking by cautious investors ahead of the results of the Lok Sabha polls. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 667.55 points or 0.89 per cent to settle at 74,502.90. It went below the 75,000 mark to hit the...

Army denies scuffle with cops in J&K’s Kupwara 

Army denies scuffle with cops in J&K’s Kupwara 

Srinagar: The Army Wednesday rebutted allegations that its soldiers had beaten up some policemen in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kupwara district. An Army statement said, “An altercation between police and Army personnel and beating up therein of police personnel are misfounded and incorrect. Minor differences between the police personnel and a territorial army unit on an operational matter...

Best JEE coaching Melvano App’s students outshine in JEE Result

The JEE Mains 2024 examination took place in two sessions, one in January and another in April. The first session of the NTA JEE Main was held from January 24 to February 1, while the second session was held from April 4 to April 12, 2024. Approximately 14 lakh students prepare for this highly competitive examination every...

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Odisha govt asks collectors to take measures for heatwave conditions

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Wednesday asked all district collectors to take precautionary measures as the IMD has predicted heatwave conditions in several districts of the state. In a letter to all collectors, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Satyabrata Sahu said the maximum day temperature would be more than 40 degree Celsius at many places in the interior districts....

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Two Naxalites killed in encounter with cops in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur

Bijapur: Two Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district Wednesday, police said. The gunfight took place in a forest under Madded police station limits when a team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation, a senior police official said. After guns fell silent, bodies of two Naxalites along with...

 

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