New Delhi | 5 days ago
After politics, is Bollywood Amar Singh's next destination?
New Delhi, Feb 8 - His career as a politician may have taken an unexpected turn with his expulsion from the Samajwadi Party, but Amar Singh says he has a lot on his plate right now, including a couple of movies. In one of these films, his character is sympathetic to the cause of Maoists.'Politics has not been a career for me. I have other things to do to keep myself busy in life,' Amar Singh told ... read more

15 days ago
Court orders demolition of encroachments in Majlis Park
New Delhi, Jan 29 - The Delhi High Court Friday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi - to carry out a demolition drive to remove all encroachments in Majlis Park area of North Delhi in order to construct an 80-foot wide road there. A division bench of Justices Vikramjit Sen and Manmohan Singh said: 'If this trend of land grabbing is not reversed, the impression in society that only fools ... read more

8 months ago
His protest against land grabbers has been on for 13 years
Muzaffarnagar -, May 24 - How long can a sit-in protest continue? Vijay Kumar Singh, once a resident of an Uttar Pradesh village, has been at it for 13 years. Singh, from Chausnna village in Muzaffarnagar district, about 300 km from Lucknow, was 34 when he decided to take on the land sharks of his village. He started a sit-in outside the district magistrate's office in the Prakash Chowk locality ... read more

10 months ago
Court say no to Mukhtar Ansari's bid to contest polls
Lucknow, March 25 - The Allahabad High Court Wednesday denied permission to Bahujan Samaj Party - nominee and gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to file his nomination to contest the Lok Sabha polls. Responding to Ansari's application, the court said that since he was under judicial custody his voting rights remain automatically suspended. 'Therefore, there is no question of granting him ... read more

12 months ago
Lawyers to observe strike against CrPC amendments Wednesday
New Delhi, Feb 16 - Lawyers across the country will observe a nationwide strike Wednesday demanding repeal of an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code - that they say takes away the mandatory provision of arrest in certain cases. The Delhi High Court Bar Association - along with the federation of all Bar Associations of Northern States will observe a nationwide strike on Wednesday. DHCBA secr ... read more

1 year ago
Some Delhi cops face inquiry over links with land mafia
New Delhi, Jan 13 - At a time when sleuths of the Delhi Police are probing irregularities in the allotment of over 5,000 flats in the capital, their own officers have come under the scanner for alleged nexus with the land mafia. According to an internal inquiry ordered by Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal in December last year, the station-in charge of two police stations in south Delhi are ... read more

1 year ago
It's development versus corruption in Rajasthan
Jaipur, Nov 23 - Anti-incumbency, the Gujjar issue, corruption and development are set to hog the campaign in the Dec 4 Rajasthan assembly elections. The state assembly has 200 seats, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party - now having 121 legislators and Congress 53. It has always been a two-party contest in the state, but Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party - is pulling ... read more

1 year ago
An Agra bridge in troubled waters
Agra, Sep 1 - A bridge over the Yamuna river is coming up in the Taj Mahal city, dangerously close to a Mughal-era monument. But no one appears to know on whose authority it is being built. The protected monument, Etmauddaula, was built by Noor Jahan, the favourite wife of Mughal emperor Jahangir, as a mausoleum for her father Mirza Giyas Beg. It is waiting to be included in the World Heritage l ... read more

1 year ago
Another inmate attacked inside Amritsar jail
Amritsar, Aug 30 - Just two days after Sikh sect leader Ajit Singh Phoola was set ablaze inside the high-security central jail here, an eyewitness to his killing was stabbed Saturday in the same complex by another prisoner who had improvised a spoon into a knife, an official said. Gurdial Singh, who used to attend to the Nihang sect chief, was stabbed by another inmate Ranjit Singh with a spoon ... read more

1 year ago
Congress leaders arrested, released in Ghaziabad
New Delhi, July 29 - Heralding a bitter battle between the two parties in the coming days, senior Congress leaders, on way to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's native village to protest against her 'land grabbing', were arrested on the Delhi-UP border Tuesday. Uttar Pradesh police arrested Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, Dausa MP Sachin Pilot and state party president Rita Bahug ... read more