When the State Department revokes the legal status of migrants and deems them illegal, it is called visa revocation. The US State Department Monday published the exact number of visas revoked in the second term of Donald Trump’s presidency so far, while the crackdown is going on. The US has revoked more than 1,75,000 visas...
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Ram Rahim’s acquittal in journalist murder case needs consideration: SC
Rahim’s counsel said HC had recorded a categorical finding that the key witness could not be believed NEW DELHIi: Supreme Court on Monday admitted a petition challenging acquittal of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sexually assaulting two female disciples, in the 2002 murder of Sirsa-based journalist...
Govt offers Amit Shah statement in Parliament, opposition doesn’t relent
The Monsoon Session of Parliament has been marred by opposition protests since it began on July 20. NEW DELHI: Govt Monday agreed to a debate in Parliament on the recent student protest and home minister Amit Shah’s statement on the issue, but it failed to break the impasse as Congress insisted that all its demands,...
J&K police foil govt staffer bid to trap ex-lover’s hubby in drug case
Police have arrested the accused, Tariq Ahmad Sofi, employed with wildlife department in Ganderbal. SRINAGAR: J&K police on Monday claimed to have busted a plot by a 51-year-old govt employee to get his former lover’s newlywed husband arrested in a narcotics case. The accused allegedly couriered illegal drugs to the husband in an attempt to...
Youths on indefinite hunger strike against CJP founder shifted to hospital
The two youths have accused CJP leadership of favouritism and excluding grassroots members from the newly constituted core committee CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: Two youths, Manish Brahmabhatt and Rahul Pandya, who had been on an indefinite hunger strike in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar to protest the list of core committee members announced by Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Aug...
Big military shake-up in Iran as Mojtaba Khamenei names 6 senior commanders
The appointments come as Iran seeks to reinforce its military command structure following the deaths and displacement of senior commanders during the conflict. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei has appointed six senior commanders to key positions in the country’s military establishment, filling top posts in the armed forces, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),...
Gangs of WhatsAppur: Mumbai’s thieves reinvent codes for digital age
(AI image used for representative) Mumbai police have made headlines by unearthing a pickpocketing ring that relied on encrypted WhatsApp chats for coordination “Chacha ne salaam diya”“Aaj mausam kaisa hai?”To an outsider, these may sound like harmless banter. But as MIDC police in Andheri found out last week, these phrases carried a very different message...
18 Assam villagers injured in firing along Arunachal border amid land dispute
The trigger for the firing at Mingmang Badati in Gogamukh revenue circle was apparently an altercation over alleged encroachment of land in Assam by people from Arunachal GUWAHATI: At least 18 people were injured, four of them critically, after unidentified miscreants from Arunachal Pradesh opened fire on residents of an Assam village along the inter-state...
‘Rehearsed, well-practised, planted’: Court on allegations against Brij Bhushan
The judge found the allegations “strikingly similar”, made at the same time and at a common place, indicating “prior meticulous planning”. NEW DELHI: A court, which last week acquitted former BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for lack of evidence, held that the sexual harassment allegations against him...
Why high BP and diabetes may strike together after 40
Individuals with diabetes were nearly four times more likely to have hypertension than those without it NEW DELHI: Adults above 40 should be routinely screened for both hypertension and diabetes as the chances of the two occurring together rise sharply as one ages, according to an Indian hospital-based study published in the journal, Diabetes &...
