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New Delhi: Delhi Police said Sunday that the Cockroach Janata Party's (CJP) Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka have been placed under preventive arrest. According to CJP's legal affairs head, Ratna Singh, the three will appear before the Executive Magistrate at Delhi Cantt Police...

New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Saturday vowed to continue protests against alleged electoral roll irregularities until Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resigns, announcing another demonstration at Jantar Mantar at 10 am Sunday, even as the Delhi Traffic Police warned of possible restrictions across New...

Bhubaneswar: Members of the BJP's Odisha women's wing burnt an effigy of Rahul Gandhi Saturday and questioned the "silence" of his party over Jawaharlal Nehru University dismissing professor Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, also a Congress MP from Manipur, following sexual harassment complaints against him. Akoijam was...

New Delhi: INDIA bloc will hold a protest march against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh on the "vote chori" issue in Delhi Monday, while a delegation of its senior leaders will submit a memorandum to the Chief Justice of India for his intervention in the matter,...

New Delhi: A total of 124 former IAS, IFS, IPS and allied services' officers have strongly defended the Election Commission (EC) and the SIR process, saying a system cannot be honest when someone wins and rigged when that person loses. In an open letter to...

Geneva: UN human rights office has raised concerns over mass detentions during large-scale protests in Delhi Saturday, as it urged Indian authorities to respect the right to peaceful assembly and called for the immediate release of anyone arbitrarily detained. Hundreds of protesters were detained as...

New Delhi: Supreme Court will hear Sunday a plea seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against authorities for alleged blatant violation of the court's direction to ensure no complete prohibition on metro and trains services in Delhi due to the CJP protest. According to the cause...

United Nations: India hits out at Pakistan at the UN, saying nuclear weapons must not be treated as "routine instruments of statecraft", asserting that New Delhi will "not bow" to nuclear blackmail. India exercised its Right of Reply at the plenary meeting of the First...

New Delhi: An unprecedented security clampdown and the detention of over 7,000 protesters, including CJP leader Abhijit Dipke, four former chief ministers and YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, helped the government thwart a planned mass mobilisation at Jantar Mantar Saturday to press for the resignation of Chief...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan Saturday condemned the detention of CPI-M leader and former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan by the Delhi Police and directed the State Chief Secretary Bishwanath Sinha and the Resident Commissioner Puneet Kumar in New Delhi to coordinate with the police...