Category: NEW DELHI

• NEW DELHI

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has summoned the first meeting of the National Capital Civil Services Authority (NCCSA) on June 20 to discuss disciplinary proceedings against an officer.

IAS officer Chanchal Kumar, currently the Managing Director of the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd, has been appointed as the new Civil Aviation Secretary.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Thursday that it has arrested Basant Bansal and Pankaj Bansal, key managerial persons of Gurugram-based realty company M3M Group, in connection with a bribery case involving a judge.

The Delhi Police on Thursday filed in court its charge sheet running over 1,000 pages in the alleged sexual harassment case against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

The Delhi Police on Thursday sought cancellation of FIR in the minor wrestler's complaint case alleging sexual harassment by former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Chief Brij Bhushan Singh.

However, the sale of rice under the OMSS will be continued for northeastern states, hilly states and states facing law and order situations, natural calamities at an existing rate of Rs 3,400 per quintal, it said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday released pictures of 45 individuals involved in the March 19 attack on the Indian High Commission in London by alleged Khalistani supporters.

This amount is 119 times higher than his monthly salary as a government servant, which was Rs 2.26 lakh at the time of his retirement. The revelation came into light after he mentioned his post-retirement income in his affidavit to the Lokpal.

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Wednesday met visiting US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan here and discussed the preparations for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to Washington on June 22.

The official said that they have also recovered 140 videos, screenshots of victims from the eight mobile phones of the accused identified as Alamuddin, a resident of village Abhaipur in district Bharatpur.

Earlier, the police had reached out to five foreign wrestling federations, seeking information, as several wrestlers have alleged harassment during tournaments abroad. They are currently awaiting responses from these federations.

The much-awaited elections for the Executive Committee of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) will be held on July 6, returning officer retired high court judge Mahesh Mittal Kumar announced in a notification issued on Tuesday.

The Delhi High Court has directed two police officials to plant 100 fruit-bearing trees following their altercation with a lawyer over protecting trees during civil work carried out by a government agency.

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and conveyed him that US President Joe Biden is looking forward to welcome him on his forthcoming state visit scheduled from June 21-25.

During the first meeting of Opposition parties scheduled in Patna on June 23, the leaders will pass a resolution to contest next year's Lok Sabha elections unitedly, besides setting the date for the next meeting, sources in the Congress said on Tuesday.

It is Jeevarathinam's case that she had applied for the adoption of a third child under the Adoption Regulations, 2017, which was in effect at that time and only prohibited parents with "three or more children" from adopting a child without any disabilities.

"Earthquake of Magnitude:5.4, Occurred on 13-06-2023, 13:33:42 IST, Lat: 33.15 & Long: 75.82, Depth: 6 Km ,Location: Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India," the National Centre for Seismology said in a tweet.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday said that an IndiGo aircraft has been grounded following a tail strike incident at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.

Reliance Industries was placed at number 45 in the overall ranking of 2000 global corporates ahead of well-known names like Germany's BMW Group, Switzerland's Nestle, China's Alibaba Group, the US's Procter & Gamble and Japan's Sony.

The Centre on Tuesday lashed out at former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for claiming that the Indian government threatened to wind it down and conducted raids on employees' homes, saying it is an attempt to "brush out that very dubious period of Twitter's history".

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in an exploratory remark, has claimed that India had put pressure on the micro-blogging platform, including giving threats of winding it down and conducting raids on employees' homes.

Markets regulator SEBI has banned Essel Groups Subhash Chandra and Zee Entertainment CEO Punit Goenka from holding position of a director or a key managerial personnel in any listed company or its subsidiaries until further orders on alleged siphoning off funds from Zee Entertainment.

The BSF has been without a full-time chief since the retirement of Pankaj Singh on December 31, 2022. CRPF Director General Dr. Sujoy Lal Thaosen was holding additional charge as its chief.

In the latest update on the attack on the High Commission of India in London by alleged Khalistani supporters, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) released five CCTV footages of the attack on Monday and sought help from the public to identify the culprits.

According to data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, retail inflation was at a high of 7.04 per cent in May 2022, while food inflation was 7.97 per cent during the period.