Manual acceptance of citizenship applications
New Delhi: Considering the difficulties being encountered by the minority community nationals of Pakistan and Afghanistan for submitting their applications for grant of Indian Citizenship, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has permitted the manual acceptance of applications for grant of Indian Citizenship to such individuals who had entered India prior to December 31,2009.
‘Release undertrials once chargesheeted’
New Delhi: Maintaining that prisons are for convicts and not for undertrials, NHRC chairperson Justice KG Balakrishnan on Thursday said after filing of chargesheet, the undertrial prisoners should be released on bail to reduce overcrowding in jails. He was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the two-day National Seminar on Prison Reforms organised by the NHRC at India International Centre in New Delhi.
Man held for murdering senior citizen
New Delhi: A 40-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly murdering and robbing a senior citizen in Central Delhi's Jama Masjid area. The incident had taken place on Sunday, when Veer Singh Jain (72), a cloth businessman was allegedly robbed of Rs6 lakh and then murdered inside his ancestral home.
Two men arrested for trafficking minor girl
New Delhi: Two men have been arrested for allegedly trafficking a 15-year-old Bangladeshi girl to Delhi and then plotting to sell her abroad using social networks. The two accused have been identified as Alam Giri and Raj Kumar Pandey, both of whom were distant relatives of the victim were arrested by the East Delhi Police from Mandawli and Nizamuddin area.
Nepalese guard beaten to death in Paharganj
New Delhi: A 65-year-old Nepalese security guard was beaten to death while his nephew was badly injured when they were attacked by four masked burglars who were trying to break open a shop's shutter in central Delhi's Paharganj area in the wee hours on Thursday night. The deceased has been identified as Bhagat Shah while Karan Bahadur is his nephew.
Sikh body: Expedite filing of chargesheets
New Delhi: The Shiromani Akali Dal-controlled Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has sought Home Minister Rajnath Singh's intervention in expediting filing of chargesheets against those involved in 1984 anti-Sikh riots. "We have written to the Home Minister and urged him to expedite filing of charge-sheets against the guilty including Sajjan Kumar for their involvement in the riots," DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK told reporters.
Centre reviewing UGC, AICTE
New Delhi: Keeping in view the challenges in the field of higher education, the Centre is reviewing the regulators of educational institutions like the UGC and the AICTE. HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Thursday said that she wants to redefine India’s destiny through greater reforms in the education sector under Modi’s regime.
‘Cheema’s remarks on Talabira were his own’
New Delhi: Standing by CBI closure report in Talabira coal block allocation, agency chief Ranjit Sinha on Thursday said the views expressed by Special Public Prosecutor RS Cheema that there was evidence against Kumar Mangalam Birla and former Coal Secretary PC Parakh are his “independent” views.