Crowd-funded anti-bribery portal shuts after amassing 2 lakh users in 48 hrs | India News

NEW DELHI: Bribes.fyi began as a side project and, within 48 hours, clocked 5 million requests and 2 lakh new users. It shut down as suddenly as its meteoric rise took social media by surprise.Built by 20-year-old Delhi BTech student Aryan Nishad, it displayed a neon-red map of India for anonymous reports of alleged bribe … Read more

‘FIR only after Amit Shah’s OK’: Rahul on case lodged over protester’s pellet injury complaintfor outside | India News

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the FIR registered over student protester Sahil Lochab’s alleged pellet-gun injury during the July 20 march is the “first step towards justice”.Showing a copy of the FIR, the Congress leader claimed that the “final okay” for registering the case had to come from … Read more

‘No use of cockroach inside house’: BJP mocks CJP after team ‘attacked’ during Rajasthan school visit | India News

CJP alleges BJP ‘attacked’ them over buffalo shed school inspection; BJP MLA says “no use of cockroach inside a house.” NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party’s attempt to inspect a government school in Rajasthan triggered a political storm after party members alleged they were attacked while trying to visit a school they claimed had been … Read more

‘His personal views’: Punjab Congress distances itself from Deepender Hooda over Sajjan Kumar tribute row | India News

Deepender Hooda had posted a tribute on the death of ex-Congress MP Sajjan Kumar. NEW DELHI: Punjab Congress leaders on Friday sought to distance the party’s state unit from Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda’s remarks describing former party MP and 1984 anti-Sikh riots convict Sajjan Kumar as a “role model nationwide”. The leaders said the … Read more

SC scraps SAD chief Badal’s plea to quash 2017 defamation case over linking AKJ with terror outfit | India News

SC dismisses Sukhbir Badal’s plea against defamation case over BKI-AKJ remarks NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with criminal defamation proceedings against Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and former Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal over alleged remarks linking religious organisation Akhand Kirtani Jatha (AKJ) with banned terrorist outfit Babbar … Read more

Rahul Gandhi dharna: Police register FIR on protester’s pellet injury complaint, says report | India News

Rahul Gandhi staged dharna outside the police station. NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Friday registered an FIR over an alleged pellet-gun injury suffered by student protester Sahil Lochab during the July 20 Jantar Mantar demonstration, news agency ANI reported quoting sources.The FIR came after Rahul accompanied Lochab to the DCP office and demanded action … Read more

‘Biased, no credibility’: India slams US religious freedom body over call for RSS sanctions | India News

NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Friday hit back at the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom after it urged Washington to impose sanctions on members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, calling the body “biased” and lacking credibility.In a bi-weekly press briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said such organisations have no credibility and … Read more

Congress’s renewed youth outreach: How CJP has forced political parties to course correct | India News

NEW DELHI: The success of the student-powered Jantar Mantar protests seems to have forced political parties, on both sides of the divide, to return to the drawing board and redraw their strategies to woo the youth. The fact that CJP-led protests mobilised youth in large numbers against the government and forced Dharmendra Pradhan to resign … Read more

‘Programme not appropriate’: MEA on rejecting clearance for Revanth Reddy’s US visit | India News

The CM, who is currently in UK, will now return to India. NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday said political clearance was denied for Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy’s proposed visit to the United States, saying the programme submitted for the trip was not considered appropriate to the office he … Read more

‘Attention-seeking’: Nadda says Rahul’s sit-in bid to divert attention from Vande Mataram row | India News

Nadda said that the Supreme Court has already constituted a 5-member panel to probe the alleged use of excessive force by police on students NEW DELHI: Union minister JP Nadda on Friday slammed leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for staging a sit-in outside Sansad Marg police station, claiming that the protest was … Read more