Liberal party MP Chandra Arya said that Hindu Canadians were fearful after threats issued by extremist elements, holding his own party-led government in the country responsible for inaction against Khalistan extremists. Chandra Arya is a lawmaker from Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s party. He has repeatedly raised the issue of threats to Hindu Canadians. Chandra Arya...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that it is still a world of “double standards” and those countries which are occupying positions of influence are resisting the pressure to change and those with historical influence have weaponised a lot of those capabilities. Jaishankar was speaking at a Ministerial Session titled ‘South Rising: Partnerships, Institutions...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the three proposed criminal laws are people-centric, have the flavour of Indian soil and their main purpose is to protect the constitutional, human and personal rights of citizens. Addressing the International Lawyers’ Conference organised by the Bar Council of India here, Mr Shah also said the approach...
Delhi Police’s Special Cell has arrested three people and recovered opium worth around ₹ 40 crore in the international market, police said on Friday. The accused have been identified as Amra Ram (34), Bhana Ram Choudhary (33) and Bhalla Ram (31), all residents of Rajasthan’s Jodhpur, they said. The opium was smuggled from the northeastern states and...
BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri, whose egregious communal comments in parliament have ignited massive outrage, received a warning today of “severe action” from Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. His comments have been expunged from the records. Confronting a backlash, the BJP sent a show-cause notice to its MP asking him to explain his unparliamentary language within...
The three ‘S’, – Skill, Speed and Scale are the key to capacity building for StartUps as also for those engaged in any other vocation, Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh on Friday said while inaugurating the Training Program conducted by IIM Raipur faculty for the Kendriya Bhandar (KB) staff.The Minister said, “Quality with Cost-Effectiveness of...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday met his Japanese counterpart Yoko Kamikawa in New York for the first time and exchanged views on the Special Strategic and Global Partnership between India and Japan and ways to further enhance bilateral ties. Kamikawa, a 70-year-old veteran lawmaker, succeeded Yoshimasa Hayashi as Japanese foreign minister in a...
Delhi Police is learnt to have put in place an elaborate security apparatus ahead ofthe Students’ Union election to be held on Friday.Police have been detaining outsiders and letting them off after verification to ensurethat the movement inside the campus remains restricted to the students. In the lasttwo weeks, around 600 people were held in...
Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena launched the Vigilance ComplaintInformation Management System (VCIMS) portal, which is believed to be conducive tospeedy action in dealing with and monitoring complaints on corruption, an officialstatement said on Thursday.“VCIMS will enable the common man to file vigilance complaints at any time fromanywhere against an employee of Delhi Government, MCD,...
A 54-year-old Delhi Police sub-inspector on duty was killed and the driver of a pick-up van was seriously injured after an allegedly speeding car hit them on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway in East Delhi’s Pandav Nagar on Tuesday morning. The driver of the car bearing a Delhi registration number fled the spot, leaving the damaged vehicle...