New Delhi: Hours after being released from detention, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Sunday vowed to continue their agitation against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, saying the protest would now expand nationwide. CJP's Saurav Das alleged that the Modi government has created an "emergency-like...
New Delhi: Delhi Police has registered 20 FIRs in connection with Saturday's Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, officials said Sunday. The cases include an FIR registered at...
New Delhi: Several protesters were detained by security personnel while marching towards Jantar Mantar from Connaught Place's Inner Circle and Rajiv Chowk in New Delhi, as the protest called by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) entered its second day Sunday. Visuals showed protesters marching towards...
New Delhi: Congress Sunday said a parliamentary standing committee report has catalogued the "grave incompetence and malpractice" in the NTA and the Ministry of Education, and hoped that the Modi government "sheds its arrogance for the limited time it has remaining" and takes the report...
New Delhi: YouTuber Dhruv Rathee Sunday claimed he was "kidnapped" from his residence by people in plain clothes and taken to different police stations ahead of the planned protest against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar in Delhi October 10. In a video posted on...
New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, who were put under preventive arrest following their detention at the Delhi airport ahead of the Jantar Mantar protest, were released Sunday morning after being produced before an executive magistrate. They...
New Delhi: Stringent traffic restrictions remained in force across several parts of Delhi Sunday for a second consecutive day as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) renewed its call for protests demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. According to a Delhi Traffic Police...
Cairo: The latest attack on the international airport in Saudi Arabia's capital of Riyadh killed 12 people and injured over 300 others, civil aviation authorities said early Sunday, with some in critical condition. A Saudi-led coalition blamed Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen. It was...
Kathmandu: A debris-laden flash flood in a river has swept away more than 35 houses and bridges in Nepal's Gorkha district Sunday, authorities said, urging people living along the stream to move to higher ground. The flood in the Budhi Gandaki River swept away houses...
Washington: US President Donald Trump said that the United States could end its military involvement in Iran immediately but would not do so without guarantees that Tehran would never acquire nuclear weapons, even as he suggested the seven-month conflict could soon come to an end....
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At a time when there are nationwide protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over the...
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