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New Delhi, Aug 21: A Delhi court today sent two persons, who had allegedly attacked JNU student leader Umar Khalid in front of the Constitution Club here, to two-day police custody. The incident took place on August 13 and they were arrested from Haryana a week later. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat allowed the plea of the Delhi Police after it said their custodial interrogation was

Kochi, Aug 21: The Cochin Port Trust has earmarked two godowns for free storage of relief materials, arriving from across the country, for people affected by the unprecedented floods in Kerala, a port trust official said. The first truck carrying relief materials, mobilised by all major ports under the Union Shipping Ministry, was dispatched through the VOC Port Trust in Tuticorin and will be

New Delhi, Aug 21: The Delhi government on Monday alleged that Food Commissioner Mohanjeet Singh has decided to cancel more than 2.9 lakh ration cards without proper inspection, setting the stage for another round of tussle between the AAP dispensation and the bureaucracy. Rejecting the government's allegation, Singh said 2.48 lakh "ineligible" ration card holders have been deleted after following

New Delhi Aug 21: Reliance Group on Monday said its chairman Anil Ambani has written to Congress president Rahul Gandhi on the Rafale fighter jet deal saying his party has been "misinformed, misdirected and misled" by "malicious vested interests and corporate rivals" on the issue. Ambani, who had first written to Gandhi on the issue in December, last week again wrote to him saying not a single

New Delhi, Aug 20: The Supreme Court today took note of the July 20 lynching incident in Rajasthan's Alwar district after it had issued a slew of directions on dealing with cow vigilantism and asked the state government to file its response about the action taken in the case. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked the Principal Secretary of the Home department of the state government to

New Delhi, Aug 20: Delhi's Patiala House Court on Monday granted permission to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor to visit Geneva, Switzerland, to meet the family of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who passed away on August 18. Tharoor is an accused in his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death case. The court had earlier barred him from foreign travel without prior permission. The court

New Delhi, Aug 20: The UK has confirmed to the CBI that fugitive billionaire Nirav Modi, alleged to be the mastermind of India's biggest banking fraud of over $2 billion, is in their country, officials said on Monday. The Central Bureau of Investigation submitted an extradition request to the home ministry immediately after getting the confirmation, they said. The request to bring him back will be

New Delhi, Aug 20: The BJP today took on Rahul Gandhi over the revocation of suspension from his party of Mani Shankar Aiyar, who had used objectionable language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying it exposed the Congress chief and his "love for a person of many controversies". Mr Aiyar was suspended from the primary membership of the Congress on December 7 last year for his "neech aadmi"

New Delhi, Aug 20: No ATM will be replenished with cash after 9 pm in cities and 6 pm in rural areas from next year. Also, two armed guards will accompany crisp notes in transit, as per a new directive issued by the Home Ministry. The deadline for putting money in ATMs located in Maoist-hit areas is 4 pm while private cash-handling agencies must collect money from banks in the first half of the

New Delhi, Aug 19: The NDMA on Sunday said there will be no heavy rains in the flood-hit Kerala for the next four days, giving a ray of hope to the distraught people of the state. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) also said more than 33,000 people have been rescued by different agencies from the flood-affected areas of the state. Over 6.33 lakh people are currently staying in