Category: Delhi

In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, Government on Thursday appointed IAS officer Sunil Arora as Election Commissioner and former Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi as Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Mehrishi, a 1978-batch Rajasthan cadre IAS officer, will replace SK Sharma, who is retiring on September 24. Mehrishi retired yesterday from the post of Home Secretary after serving a period of […]

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested meat exporter Moin Qureshi, a childhood friend of former CBI Director A.P. Singh, on money laundering charges. The Directorate is also probing alleged foreign exchange rule violations by Mr. Qureshi. “We have arrested Mr. Qureshi under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. He will be produced before a city court today and his custody […]

Five members of a family were killed while four others, including three children, were injured after their vehicle was hit by a dumper on National Highway 24 near East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar in the early hours of Wednesday. The family, after receiving a few members from Iran, was returning from Indira Gandhi International Airport and heading towards Meerut when the […]

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Monday suspended Congress MPs Gaurav Gogoi, Sushmita Dev, Ranjeet Ranjan, Adhir Choudhary, K Suresh and M K Raghavan for five days for disrupting the proceedings of the House. The members raised slogans in the Well of the House during Zero Hour and tore and threw papers towards the Speaker’s chair. The Lok Sabha had […]