New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday extended his heartfelt congratulations to the all-women mountaineering team of the Border Security Force (BSF) for scripting history by successfully summiting Mount Everest.Praising the team’s achievement, the Home Minister said the women personnel showcased extraordinary courage and determination while celebrating the Diamond Jubilee year of the BSF.Taking to the social media platform X, Amit Shah wrote, “Nari Shakti proves BS…
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Chandigarh, May 19 (IANS) In a major step towards rejuvenating the Yamuna river and reducing pollution entering Delhi through inter-state drains, the Haryana government has launched an extensive action plan focusing on sewage treatment, industrial waste management, and real-time monitoring of drain pollution. Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi on Tuesday reviewed the progress of the state’s comprehensive pollution control strategy aimed at preventing contaminated water from state drains from en…
Hyderabad, May 16 (IANS) Telangana Rakshana Sena President, K Kavitha, on Saturday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking the immediate removal of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, from the Union Council of Ministers in connection with a POCSO case against his son Bageerath.In the letter, K Kavitha targetted the Union Minister following a First Information Report (FIR) registered against his son under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (P…
Srinagar, May 16 (IANS) Police in J&K’s Sopore sub-division on Saturday carried out searches at 15 locations in connection with the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) cases linked to the banned Jamaat-e-Islami organisation.Police said that in Sopore sub-division searches were carried out at over 15 locations across Bomai, Warpora, Sopore and Tarzoo in connection with a UAPA case linked to the banned Jamaat-e-Islami network.The ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami party was extended by the g…
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the premature release of Rohit Chaturvedi, one of the convicts in the 2003 murder case of poetess Madhumita Shukla, holding that the Union Home Ministry’s decision rejecting his remission plea was “arbitrary, non-speaking, unsustainable in law and merit”. A Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan quashed the July 9, 2025, letter issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), which had declined to concur with the Uttarak…
Patna, May 13 (IANS) In line with the directives of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, a large-scale mock drill simulating an air raid and blackout will be conducted on May 14 in Patna and six other districts — Kishanganj, Begusarai, Purnea, Araria and Katihar.At the state level, the Directorate of Civil Defence, Bihar, has been designated as the nodal agency for the successful execution of the exercise.To ensure seamless implementation, a Table Top Exercise was conducted on May…
Lisbon, May 13 (IANS) India on Wednesday thanked the Portugal government and its law enforcement authorities for their cooperation and support in the successful extradition of wanted fugitive Iqbal Singh alias ‘Shera’ from Lisbon. The Embassy of India in Lisbon while thanking the Portuguese authorities stated that Iqbal Singh is accused of several serious offences including drug trafficking and terror financing. He would now be subject to trial before courts in India.”The extradition has been ef…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Congress MP and Deputy Leader of the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi on Wednesday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressing concern over repeated incidents of racial harassment and attacks on women and people from the Northeast in Delhi.Gogoi urged immediate steps to strengthen institutional mechanisms for their safety.In his letter, Gogoi referred to the recent incident at Nehru Place in the national capital, where two women from Assam and Bihar were allegedly molested, …
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in coordination with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), and Delhi Police, has successfully secured the extradition of wanted fugitive Prabhdeep Singh from Azerbaijan to India, an official statement said on Wednesday.Prabhdeep Singh, who was the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice, was wanted in connection with a case registered at the Special Cell Police Station in New Delhi under various p…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) In a significant step to combat incidents of cybercrime and digital fraud, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), under the Ministry of Home Affairs and Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Tuesday. The MoU seeks to create an integrated system and strengthen collaboration in combating cyber-enabled financial fraud while curtailing mule accounts across the banking and digital payments ecosystem.Union Home Minister Am…