Law enforcement agencies should not consider borders as a hindrance: Amit Shah

Law enforcement agencies should not consider borders as a hindrance: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah during the valedictory function of Commonwealth Attorneys and Solicitors General Conference 2024, in New Delhi, on February 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that crimes and criminals do not respect geographical borders and hence, different law enforcement agencies also should not consider … Read more

BJP tried to steal the people’s mandate in Jharkhand using central agencies instructed by the PM: Rahul Gandhi

BJP tried to steal the people’s mandate in Jharkhand using central agencies instructed by the PM: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses during the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, in Godda, Jharkhand on February 3, 2024 | Photo Credit: ANI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on February 3 accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using central investigative agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in an … Read more

Sajad Lone asks security agencies to relook current policy of ‘macro-level punishment’

Sajad Lone asks security agencies to relook current policy of ‘macro-level punishment’

JKPC president Sajad Gani Lone. File | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference (JKPC) president Sajad Gani Lone on Thursday appealed for a relook at the policy adopted by the security agencies in Kashmir.  Claiming that individuals, both young and old, were rounded up by the police in the past 24 hours in … Read more

Morning Digest | With moon now in India’s orbit, focus shifts to Pragyan rover; Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash: Russian agencies, and more

Morning Digest | With moon now in India’s orbit, focus shifts to Pragyan rover; Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash: Russian agencies, and more

Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Russian private mercenary group Wagner. | Photo Credit: Reuters With moon now in India’s orbit, focus shifts to Pragyan rover With Vikram, the lander module of Chandrayaan-3, successfully landing on the surface of moon on Wednesday, the focus has now moved to the rover in its belly, Pragyan. Years of … Read more

Ad agencies create hurdles for BMTC to put up information boards at BBMP maintained bus stops 

Ad agencies create hurdles for BMTC to put up information boards at BBMP maintained bus stops 

A digital board at a bus shelter which provides information on destinations and bus arrival times. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR The digital boards, being put up by BMTC under Nirbhaya scheme, contain information about the bus routes, if they are AC or non-AC buses, their Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) and its destination … Read more

BRS accuses BJP of trying to demoralise it with misuse of power, agencies

BRS accuses BJP of trying to demoralise it with misuse of power, agencies

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has asked its leaders and cadre to expose the narrow-minded politics being pursued by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the sole motive of damaging party president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s image when he is taking steps to expand the good governance of Telangana to all parts of the country. … Read more

79 children died in specialised adoption agencies from April-December 2022

79 children died in specialised adoption agencies from April-December 2022

 Very low birth weight and premature birth were also some reasons for their deaths. File image for representation. | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak A total of 79 children have died between April to December, 2022, in Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) majorly due to unsafe abandonments which exposed them to harm like being bitten by animals or … Read more

Central agencies gear up for FATF mutual evaluations

Central agencies gear up for FATF mutual evaluations

Government agencies have expedited efforts to further strengthen the anti-money laundering and counter-terror financing frameworks in view of the coming Financial Action Task Force (FATF) assessment of India in the fourth round of mutual evaluations expected later this year. It is learnt that the Financial Intelligence Unit is organising meetings with representatives from sectors like … Read more

Using agencies as political tools

Using agencies as political tools

The ED has provisionally attached 28 immovable properties and other assets worth ₹80.65 crore belonging to TRS MP Nama Nageswara Rao in an alleged money laundering case. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Telangana government and the Centre have been at loggerheads for a while now. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making … Read more