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Delhi Assembly Election 2020, Rajouri Garden Profile : The upscale Rajouri Garden area of Delhi will be voting on 8 February to elect its next representative. With over 166 polling stations and over 1.6 lakh voters (2015 estimates), Rajouri Garden has been a crucial seat for all three parties. The AAP has nominated Dhanwati Chandela to fight the poll, while the BJP fielded Ramesh Khanna. The Congress,on the other hand, has given the ticket to Sikh, Amandeep Singh Sudan, an INC national spokesperson. The incumbent MLA from this seat is Manjinder Singh Sirsa of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), an ally of the BJP. However, this time, the constituency will elect a new MLA as the SAD first, announced that it won't contest the Assembly polls; days later it did a u-turn and said that it would ‘support’ the BJP in the polls. Here's a brief profile of the constituency Constituency Name:  Rajouri Garden Constituency Number : 27 District Name:  West Delhi Total Electors: 163042 Fema

The protesters at Shaheen Bagh wrote peaceful messages on copies of the Preamble on Saturday, shortly before a man opened fire at the site which has been the epicentre of the agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act since 50 days. Under the campaign Tum Kab Aaoge (when will you come?), the messages were to be sent to the 311 Lok Sabha MPs who had voted in favour of the contentious Bill on 10 December last year. In some messages, protesters invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join them at Shaheen Bagh for tea and listen to their ‘ Mann Ki Baat ’. In other texts, they expressed dismay over the government showing apathy towards the agitators. “It’s been 50 days since we have been sitting here with our children braving the chilly winters and immense hardships. We are waiting for you and we are bewildered by your apathy,” a message read. At the protest event titled ‘Preamble from the people’, the oldest protesters, also dubbed as ' Dadis of Shaheen Bagh', held a ma

New Delhi: He is not radical and is a "simple boy" but he was "tired" of travelling extra kilometres as roads are blocked due to protests at Shaheen Bagh, said family members of Kapil Gujjar, who was arrested for firing in the air at the south-east Delhi locality on Saturday. Kapil, who owns a dairy business in Dallupura village on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, fired two rounds in the air at Shaheen Bagh, the epicentre of anti-CAA protests due to which a major road connecting south Delhi to Noida is blocked for over a month now. "On normal days it takes two hours to reach the Badarpur Dairy (in south Delhi). He had to travel just 10 kilometres. But due to the protests, he had to travel 35 kilometres and he reached home at 1 am. "He was tired with this but definitely not that disturbed to do anything like that (shooting)," Kapil's uncle Fateh Singh said. The Gujjar family has a small dairy unit in Dallupura and a larger one at Badarpur, and

Thrissur: The Kerala government on Saturday said the condition of the medical student, kept in an isolation ward after testing positive for the novel coronavirus is satisfactory and that three people have been arrested for spreading false information on social media about the disease. The woman, who tested positive, is a student of Wuhan University and is undergoing treatment at the Thrissur Medical College Hospital. "The health status of the student who tested positive for coronavirus remains satisfactory. The hospital authorities have confirmed that the health condition of all symptomatic persons under isolation in hospitals is "stable", a bulletin said. Health Minister KK Shailaja said Kerala has strengthened surveillance and control measures against the epidemic, which has been declared by WHO as a global emergency. She told reporters that three people have been arrested for spreading false information about those who had arrived in the state from coronavirus aff

New Delhi : Unfazed by the firing incident at Shaheen Bagh on Saturday, protestors said they will continue their stir at the site until the government revokes the amended citizenship law. Protesters raise slogans during a demonstration against the amended Citizenship Act and National Register of Citizens at Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi. PTI A 25-year-old man fired two rounds in the air in the southeast Delhi locality, triggering a panic on Saturday evening. The man was later taken into custody and no one was injured in the incident. Soon after, more protestors were seen flocking to the site. Some sung the national anthem, while others formed a human chain and offered namaz. The protestors also raised slogans against the Delhi Police. A woman protestor, who didn't wish to be named, said the incident created a panic among them as well as the children. "Many women and children were inside the tent when the incident occurred. We rushed to the spot on hearing a gunshot. Everyone

New Delhi: Asserting that the Union Budget will give a push to the economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday listed out various reforms announced in it and said the document has both "vision and action". Reforms announced in the Budget will push employment in the country and help in doubling farmers' income, the prime minister said. The Budget has further strengthened the government's commitment of minimum government, maximum governance, Modi said, adding that it has eased the taxation process. from Firstpost India Latest News https://ift.tt/36S4U8x Press Trust of India

New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia on Saturday prohibited students from holding any protest meeting or agitation inside the university campus, warning them of strict action, according to officials. The varsity administration also directed students to report to it any unauthorised entry of outsiders in campus to avoid "disruption of peace". The directive comes in wake of recent incidents around the university area. Earlier this week, a student of the varsity was injured outside the campus when a man fired a pistol at a group of anti-CAA protesters before walking away while waving the firearm over his head shouting "Yeh lo aazadi". "Any kind of protest meeting, agitation, speeches and mass gathering or any unlawful activities causing inconvenience and disruption in the day to day academic functioning are not allowed around the central canteen or anywhere in the Jamia Millia Islamia campus," the Jamia Registrar said in an official order. "Students ar

The day a shooter injured a student outside Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi during an anti-CAA protest, two men threatened protesting students in Bengaluru with a repeat of the incident. According to a report in the Times Of India , the incident happened during a protest against the Jamia firing at Bengaluru's Maurya circle. On Thursday, a 17-year-old youth fired a pistol at a group of anti-CAA protesters at Jamia, injuring a student. Videos showed him waving the firearm over his head shouting " yeh lo aazadi " before firing at the protester. Following the firing in Jamia, students from several colleges in Bengaluru gathered and began demanding that Union Home Minister Amit Shah resign and that BJP MP Anurag Thakur be booked for hate speech. They also chanted slogans against the Citizenship Amendment Act . As per the report, two men joined a group of demonstrators who had stayed back to protest against the alleged attack by police at the Jamia varsity an

Nirmala Sitharaman's 160-minute Budget speech, the longest ever by a finance minister, dealt with all aspects of the economy and the intended direction for the next financial year. Sitharaman addressed BJP’s core social constituency: farmers and the middle class. With campaigning for Delhi Assembly elections entering its last leg, the revised personal taxation slabs offering relief to the salaried middle class may make an impact. The Budget will sit well with young entrepreneurs in the National Capital as it puts more money in their pockets, simplifies taxes and the compliance process for start-ups. The concerns of an overwhelming number of people, particularly men and women from the underprivileged class, who opened bank accounts under the Jan Dhan scheme, have been addressed. Sitharaman proposed hiking the bank deposit insurance to Rs 5 lakh per depositor from Rs 1 lakh, which will surely be a talking point for the Delhi polls. Sitharaman, addressing the criticism of the gov

The Delhi High Court on Saturday issued a notice to the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case and directed the authorities at Tihar Jail and the DG (Prisons) directing to reply to Centre's plea challenging a stay on their execution. The court issued the directions while hearing the Centre's petition challenging a trial court's order staying the execution of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case. The court will hear the matter again tomorrow. Representational image. PTI The execution of the death sentence was earlier scheduled for 1 February, Saturday. The Ministry of Home Affairs has challenged the trial court's Friday order, which had stayed the execution of the convicts until further orders. The plea, which sought setting aside of the trial court's order, has made parties the convicts, Mukesh Kumar, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Akshay Singh, Director General (Prisons) and Superintendent of Tihar Jail. Ar

New Delhi:  Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday alleged that those who support terrorists in Kashmir are staging protest at Shaheen Bagh and raising slogans of 'aazadi'. Hitting out at the AAP dispensation at an election rally in northwest Delhi's Rohini, Adityanath said that the Arvind Kejriwal government "supplies biryani" to protesters at Shaheen Bagh. Hundreds of people, including women and children, have been protesting since 15 December at Shaheen Bagh against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens. Addressing another poll rally at Karawal Nagar Chowk in east Delhi, the BJP leader lashed out at anti-CAA protesters, saying "their ancestors divided India, so they have a grouse against this emerging 'ek Bharat shrestha Bharat'." "These protests happening at various places in Delhi are not about the CAA, but it is happening because those people are questioning as to how can India emerg

After Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam unveiled the Union Budget 2020-21, Opposition leaders tore into her and the document, claiming it offered no concrete solutions to the challenges facing the economy. Leading the charge was senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, who said the Modi government is in complete denial that the economy faces a "grave macro economic challenge" and it has given up on reviving the economy, accelerating growth or creating jobs. There is nothing in the Budget that leads one to believe that growth will revive in 2020-21 and the claim of 6 to 6.5 per cent growth next year is "astonishing and even irresponsible", the former finance minister said at a press conference. "The government has given up on reviving the economy or accelerating the growth rate or promoting private investment or increasing efficiency or creating jobs or winning a greater share of world trade," he said. He said the government "does not believe" i

New Delhi: A large number of items including cigarettes, chewing tobacco along with imported products, like edible oils, fans, table, footwear, electric vehicles, tableware, kitchenware, toys and furniture are set to become more expensive due to hike in taxes proposed in the Union Budget for 2020-21. On the other hand, newsprint, sports goods, microphone will become cheaper as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed reduction in duties on these items in the Budget for 2020-21. Following is a list of imported items that will become costlier following the announcements in the Budget: Butter ghee, butter oil, edible oils, peanut butter Whey, meslin, maize, sugar beet seeds, preserved potato Chewing gum, dietary soya fibre, isolated soya protein Walnuts (shelled) Footwear, shavers, hair clippers, hair-removing appliances Tableware, kitchenware, water filters, glassware Household articles of porcelain or china Rubies, emeralds, sapphires, rough coloured gemstones Padlocks

Days after a 17-year-old opened fire at anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters near Jamia Millia Islamia University, another man opened fire in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area on Saturday, according to several media reports. #WATCH Delhi: Man who had fired bullets in Shaheen Bagh area being taken away from the spot by police. pic.twitter.com/lenDhRcWGD — ANI (@ANI) February 1, 2020 The shooter, being led away by the police, said, "In our country, no one else will rule. Only Hindus will rule." India Today reported that the shooter identified himself as Kapil. The shooter is a resident of Dallupura village in East Delhi, neighbouring Noida in Uttar Pradesh, India Today further reported. News18 reported that the shooter came from the Jasola side, shot twice at the barricade on the Sarita Vihar side. No one was injured and the shooter has been taken into custody, News18 further reported. More details are awaited. On Friday, a 7-year-old youth who fired at protest

Jammu : Three Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists, killed in a gunfight near a toll plaza in Jammu, had left an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) under a hoarding on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway which another member of the module was to use to target security forces, police said on Saturday. File image of Indian soldiers in Kashmir. Reuters The JeM terrorists also carried 'armoured piercing steel core ammunition' which can go through Level 3 protection bulletproof vehicles that police and other security forces use, they said. The ammunition was in large quantity and could have posed a grave threat, top police officials said. The terrorists were killed in a fierce gunbattle with police at Bann Toll Plazaa near Nagrota, about 28 kilometres from Jammu city, officials said. The operation was called off after eliminating all the three terrorists but vigilance will still be carried out in the area, they added. The truck-borne terrorists carried with them a powerful ready-

The Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari has claimed that the youth who fired at students of Jamia Millia Islamia university on Thursday is "an AAP supporter or from Shaheen Bagh", NDTV reported. Tiwari, without offering any evidence to substantiate his claim, told NDTV, "I have a feeling that the shooter was either a supporter of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) or was from Shaheen Bagh itself. These people are not being able to sustain their own protest. That is why, now, they're coming up with these claims." Tiwari, asked about the gunman's profile and Facebook posts, told  NDTV,  "Anyone can claim to be associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). I am pretty confident he was one among the anti- Citizenship (Amendment) Act protesters." The youth, who  was sent to 14-day protective custody by a Delhi court on Friday, is a resident of Jewar in Greater Noida, Delhi Police sources told  News18  Delhi. His father runs a pan shop, sources added. Before

Noida: A 42-year-old worker died allegedly after an ammonia gas leak at a Haldiram's building in the city, while more than 300 others were evacuated from there on Saturday, officials said. The leakage was reported around 12 pm, prompting immediate deployment of police force, firefighters and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), they said. There are two adjoining units of Haldiram's in the building, one was the production unit and the other was its cooling or the maintenance unit, an NDRF official said. "The gas leak had occurred through the valve of one of the four ammonia condensers in the maintenance unit where around 22 people were working and evacuated. One of them was taken to a hospital, where he died later," NDRF Assistant Commandant Anil Kumar Singh told PTI . The man who died has been identified as ammonia operator Sanjeev Kumar, he said. More than 300 other workers were in the production unit and they were also evacuated immediately and the bui

Delhi Assembly Election 2020, Moti Nagar Profile : The upscale Rajouri Garden area of Delhi will be voting on 8 February to elect its next representative. With over 166 polling stations and over 1.6 lakh voters (2015 estimates), Rajouri Garden has been a crucial seat for all three parties. The AAP has nominated Dhanwati Chandela to fight the poll, while the BJP fielded Ramesh Khanna. The Congress,on the other hand, has given the ticket to Sikh, Amandeep Singh Sudan, an INC national spokesperson. The incumbent MLA from this seat is Manjinder Singh Sirsa of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), an ally of the BJP. However, this time, the constituency will elect a new MLA as the SAD first, announced that it won't contest the Assembly polls; days later it did a u-turn and said that it would ‘support’ the BJP in the polls. Here's a brief profile of the constituency Constituency Name:  Rajouri Garden Constituency Number : 27 District Name:  West Delhi Total Electors: 163042 Female E

New Delhi : Akshay Thakur, one of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, on Saturday filed a mercy plea, jail officials said. Thakur and three other convicts were to be hanged on Saturday but a city court indefinitely postponed their hanging. "Akshay Thakur filed a mercy plea before president Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday," Director General (Prison) Sandeep Goel said. Earlier in the day, the president Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy plea of another accused, Vinay Sharma. The 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as 'Nirbhaya' (fearless), was gangraped and savagely assaulted on the night of 16 December, 2012, in a moving bus in south Delhi. She died of her injuries a fortnight later in a Singapore hospital. Six people, Mukesh, Vinay, Akshay Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, Ram Singh and a juvenile, were named as accused. The trial of the five adult men began in a special fast-track court in March 2013. The prime accused, Ram Singh,

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday unveiled the budget for fiscal 2020-21, vowing to boost income of Indians and their purchasing power, in a bid to revive domestic economic growth that has slumped. India estimates economic growth this fiscal year, which ends on 31 March, will slip to 5 percent - its weakest pace since the global financial crisis of 2008-09. The government also raised fiscal deficit target to 3.8 percent of the GDP from 3.3 percent pegged earlier for 2019-20 due to revenue shortage. The Budget also unveiled measures aimed at facilitating growth of the country's micro, small and medium enterprises including raising the turnover threshold for audit of their accounts to Rs 5 crore and a scheme to provide subordinate debt to MSME entrepreneurs. The finance minister also had several sops for the agriculture sector, as she said that the government would inject nearly $40 billion into the sprawling farm sector and billions more into a federal water scheme t

Taking a legal recourse, stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra sent a notice to IndiGo airlines, which has suspended him from flying with them for six months following his confrontation with journalist Arnab Goswami  onboard an IndiGo flight. Apart from demanding an unconditional apology, Kamra asked for the revocation of the ban and Rs 25 lakh as compensation. #BREAKING : @kunalkamra88 sends legal notice to @IndiGo6E , demands unconditional apology. He has asked for flying ban to be revoked and monetary compensation of Rs.25 lakh, along with Rs.1 lakh for his lawyers' fee. pic.twitter.com/b4xd7jdIBO — Karnika (@KarnikaKohli) February 1, 2020 In a legal notice sent to the airline on Friday, Kamra's lawyer asked the airline to "pay compensation towards my client in sum of Rs 25 lakhs on account of the mental pain and agony suffered by my client as well as losses incurred on account of cancellation of his scheduled shows and programmes in India as well as abroad on account o

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday introduced new slabs and reduced the tax rate for different slabs for an individual income of up to Rs 15 lakh per annum, if a taxpayer opts for foregoing exemptions and deductions. The new tax regime will be optional and the taxpayers will be given the choice to either remain in the old regime with exemptions and deductions or opt for the new reduced tax rate without those exemptions, she said in the Lok Sabha while unveiling the Budget 2020-21. Revised income tax slabs Tax rate* Up to Rs 5 lakh No tax Rs 5 - 7.5  lakh 10% Rs 7.5 - 10 lakh 15% Rs 10 - 12.5 lakh 20% Rs 12.5 - Rs 15 lakh 25% Above Rs 15 lakh 30% *without exemptions and deductions Under the proposal, people with an annual income of Rs 5 lakh to Rs 7.5 lakh will have to pay a reduced tax rate of 10 percent; between Rs 7.5 lakh and Rs 10 lakh 15 percent; between Rs 10 lakh and 12.5 lakh 20 percent; between Rs 12.5 lakh and 15 lakh 25 perc

New Delhi: Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said the government is ready to talk to the protesters at Shaheen Bagh to clear their doubts over the amended Citizenship law, but it should be in a "structured form". This is perhaps for the first time a Union minister has expressed willingness to communicate with the Shaheen Bagh protestors who have been staging a sit-in since last 40 days to protest the   Citizenship Amendment Act  (CAA). "Government is ready to talk to protestors of Shaheen Bagh but then it should be in a structured form and the @narendramodi govt is ready to communicate with them and clear all their doubts they have against CAA," he wrote on Twitter. Government is ready to talk to protestors of Shaheen Bagh but then it should be in a structured form and the @narendramodi govt is ready to communicate with them and clear all their doubts they have against CAA. pic.twitter.com/UjGikFN8tY — Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) February 1, 20

Aligarh: Child specialist Kafeel Khan, who was accused of making an inflammatory speech at AMU, was remanded to 14 days' judicial custody and later transferred to Mathura jail, officials said on Saturday. Circle Officer (Civil Lines) Anil Samania said Khan was brought here late Friday evening and was produced before the remand magistrate who remanded him to judicial custody. The doctor was sent to the Aligarh jail, but within an hour, he was transferred to Mathura jail, the official said. The Uttar Pradesh police had on Thursday obtained transit remand for Khan , arrested in Mumbai for allegedly making inflammatory remarks at an anti-  Citizenship Amendment Act  (CAA)  protest at Aligarh Muslim University last month. A UP special task force arrested him in a joint operation with Mumbai Police on Wednesday, when he reached the city to attend a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The STF said Khan was arrested in connection with a case registered at the Civil Lines p

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the clemency plea of Vinay Kumar Sharma, one of the four men facing the gallows in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case, Home Ministry officials said on Saturday. Sharma filed a mercy petition before the president on Wednesday, his lawyer had said. Kovind has rejected Sharma's mercy plea, the officials said. The president had last month also rejected the clemency petition of another accused, Mukesh Singh. The 23-year-old physiotherapy intern, who came to be known as 'Nirbhaya' (fearless), was gang-raped and savagely assaulted on the night of December 16, 2012, in a moving bus in South Delhi. She died of her injuries a fortnight later in a Singapore hospital. The brutality of the crime shook the nation, leading to country-wide protests and a change in India's rape laws. Six people — Mukesh, Vinay, Akshay Kumar Singh, Pawan Gupta, Ram Singh and a juvenile -- were named as accused. The trial of the five adult men

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday stated that its 24 January order regarding the allowance of mobile data services and internet access through fixed-line across the Union Territory with restrictions shall continue to remain operative till 7 February. "The overall security scenario in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir since the issuance of the directions related to the regulation of telecom services on 24 January, 2020, has been reviewed. Among other things, the terrorist activities and misuse of internet, accessed through Virtual Private Network (VPN) applications, for coordination of terror acts, transmission of rumours and targeted messages to spread ideologies inimical to the interest of the state have been taken note of as also the past incidents and apprehensions during the succeeding week," Shaleen Kabra, Principal Secretary to the government, said. The Principal Secretary has ordered that the directions/restrictions contained in the order shall co

Jammu: Decorated Army officer Lieutenant General YK Joshi will take over the charge as the GOC-in-C of Northern Command in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur on Saturday, a defence spokesman said on Friday. Lt General Joshi was commissioned into the 13 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles on June 12, 1982, and later commanded the same unit, he said. The General Officer is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, and a postgraduate from the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. He attended the prestigious National Defence College Course at New Delhi, the spokesman said. Lt General Joshi has command experience spanning the entire mosaic, covering all theatres. He commanded the 13 JAK RIF in Operation Vijay and Parakram, the spokesman said. The officer caught the attention of the nation during the Kargil war with his outstanding leadership under the nickname 'Joe' and led his unit to unprecedented success, he said. Lt Gen Joshi has had tenures as an instructor at Inf

New Delhi:  Air India's jumbo B747 plane, evacuating 324 Indian nationals from the novel coronavirus-hit Wuhan in China, landed here on Saturday morning, officials said. The plane reached Delhi around 7.30 am, they said. There were five doctors from Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital and one paramedical staff on board, said an Air India spokesperson. The Indian Army has set up a quarantine facility in Manesar near Delhi to keep those evacuated from China's Hubei province. Officials said they would be monitored for any signs of infection for a duration of two weeks by a qualified team of doctors and staff members. "With 324 passengers, the special flight has taken off for India from Wuhan. It may reach Delhi at 7.30 am," said the Air India spokesperson at 1.19 am on Saturday. The flight had departed from Delhi airport at 1.17 pm on Friday to evacuate Indian nationals from China, where more than 250 people - none of them Indian - have died due to novel coronavirus.