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NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday granted bail to Samir Modi in a rape case against him. He was granted bail on a Rs 5 lakh bond along with several other conditions. The detailed order is awaited. On Tuesday, Additional Sessions Judge Vipin Kharb had reserved the order on Modi’s bail plea after hearing…

Sonam Wangchuk (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has initiated an inquiry into alleged Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) violations at the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives Ladakh (HIAL), founded by educationist and activist Sonam Wangchuk, officials said. While confirming the development he said, “We don’t want to be dependent on foreign…

NEW DELHI: Former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai zonal director and Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sameer Wankhede has filed a defamation suit in the Delhi high court against Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd, the production company owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan and his wife, Gauri Khan.Also Read: ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood’ cast…

Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati faces renewed accusations of sexual harassment from 17 students in Delhi NEW DELHI: Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati, a self-styled spiritual leader, is under fire once again after 17 students from a private city institute in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj accused him of sexual harassment.Police said the monk, who had been living on the campus…

Priya Sachdev Kapur has moved the Delhi high court seeking permission to file details of her late husband Sunjay Kapur’s assets in a sealed cover. NEW DELHI: Priya Sachdev Kapur has moved the Delhi high court seeking permission to file details of her late husband Sunjay Kapur’s assets in a sealed cover.The plea has been…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday said filing the list of personal assets and liabilities of late Sunjay Kapur in a sealed cover may be “problematic” since his two children with former wife and actor Karisma Kapoor have a “right to question the assets disclosed.”Justice Jyoti Singh, while hearing an application filed by…

Even before walking into India’s ‘perfume capital’, the first whiffs hit you. Sometimes it’s the sweetness of rose, sometimes a heady trace of jasmine, and on other days, you could swear you’ve just smelt Giorgio Armani’s ‘Acqua di Gio’ waft through the air. In Kannauj’s Bara Bazar, shelves glint with tiny bottles sealed in gold,…

Sex ratio dip: Checks on tests, abortion pills NEW DELHI: Alarmed by a steady decline in the city’s sex ratio at birth, Delhi govt has banned sending genetic material outside the city for advanced prenatal tests and ordered stricter enforcement of restrictions on over-the-counter sale of abortion pills.Delhi’s sex ratio at birth dropped to 920…

NICU (Representative image) NEW DELHI: A city court directed police to reopen and expand its probe into allegations of negligence and falsification of records at Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, after it rejected a closure report.The matter arises from a 2019 FIR lodged by Sapna Jain, who alleged that her son, born in 2017, suffered irreversible…