New Delhi: Delhi Police‘s crime branch has arrested a 36-year-old man for allegedly defrauding businessmen of Rs 1.4 crore and USD 80,000 by posing as a prominent meat exporter with international operations, including in Dubai.The case came to light after a 35-year-old resident of Sadar Bazar filed a complaint alleging that the accused, Mohsin Mohammed,…
New Delhi: University of Delhi awarded degrees to over 1.2 lakh students on Saturday, including its first batch of four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) students graduating this year and 20 former students who were given a special opportunity to complete their courses under a provision introduced as the university entered its centenary year.The degrees were digitally…
New Delhi: Pointing out that CBI’s case against former CM Arvind Kejriwal rested mainly on the statement of accused-turned-approver Magunta Reddy, the special court on Friday questioned if probe agencies can “elevate” and treat such statements as “unimpeachable truth”.Special judge Jitendra Singh took a dim view of CBI’s move to record multiple statements of another…
New Delhi: Police on Friday arrested 14 people, including office bearers of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) in connection with a protest the union held a day earlier that allegedly turned violent. They were later granted bail.Among the arrested were Nitish Kumar, a former JNUSU president, Aditi Mishra, the current union president, Gopika Babu,…
New Delhi: A court on Friday took strong exception to the repeated use of the phrase South Group by CBI in its chargesheet in the liquor policy case. The selective adoption of a geographically defined label was “plainly arbitrary and unwarranted” and raises concerns about fairness in criminal proceedings guaranteed under Article 21 of the…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court discharged on Friday AAP supremo and former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, former BRS MLC K Kavitha and 20 others in a corruption case related to the alleged excise policy scam, criticising the manner in which the probe was conducted by CBI and bringing the case…
NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old shopkeeper was allegedly robbed of Rs 14 lakh by three unidentified men at gunpoint and knifepoint in northwest Delhi’s Model Town area, police said on Saturday.According to police, PCR call about the incident was received at the Model Town police station on Friday. The victim identified as Kartik, a resident of…
When French President Macron stood in New Delhi last week urging India to back a global under-15 social media ban, he was having a conversation India hasn’t quite had with itself. Ria Chopra has. The 26-year-old Gen Z internet culture expert created her Instagram at 14 and has spent the last few years thinking carefully…
NEW DELHI: The thrill of speed, the lure of social media validation, and the persistent illusion that “nothing will happen” — within seconds, everything can change. Across India, a disturbing pattern is emerging: fatal crashes involving young motorists, including minors, accused of reckless or negligent driving.A recent fatal crash in Goa’s Assagao has once again…
New Delhi: A scooter without a number plate parked near Rajghat — with a loaded foreign-made pistol under its seat — came to police attention only after a 20-year-old delivery worker sustained a gunshot injury on Wednesday.Rajkumar, employed with a private logistics firm in Noida, was hit in the leg when the pistol allegedly went…
