Human rights body sends notice to CBI
By Press Trust of India
PUBLISHED ON SEP 30, 2016 07:05 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission has sent a notice to the CBI and asked it to file an action taken report within three days over the contents of purported notes left by former bureaucrat BK Bansal and his son alleging “harassment” by agency officials.
In a statement issued on Friday, the commission expressed “deep anguish and shock” and said it has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports that “mental and physical torture” by some CBI officers during probe in a corruption case against Bansal.
“The commission has issued the notice to the director of the CBI asking to share the copy of notes with it and sought an action taken report on the allegations made therein within 72 hours, including the names of the delinquent public servants,” the statement said. “He has also been asked to give the name of the havildar/ head constable whose name is not mentioned in the notes,” it said.
Miss India Delhi 2019 Mansi Sehgal joins AAP, says Kejriwal inspires her
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PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 01:20 PM IST
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Chocolates, flowers, balloons for primary students as schools reopen across UP
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ayshee Bhaduri, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 12:54 PM IST
- Uttar Pradesh opened schools in a phased manner with physical classes for Classes 1 to 5 from Monday and for those in Classes 6 to 8, schools restarted from February 10.
PM Modi takes homegrown Covaxin shot, interacts with health staff | In Photos
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 12:32 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also urged eligible citizens to show up at vaccination centres to get the shot and contribute to making India Covid-19 free.
Covid-19: A year later, how politics changed and did not change
By Prashant Jha
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 12:30 PM IST
No one had thought that the idea of video conferencing between the prime minister and state chief ministers or between the prime minister and world leaders would become such a regular occurrence that it wouldn’t be even seen as a departure from the older physical format of meetings
State-wise list of domestic Covid-19 restrictions
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ayshee Bhaduri, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 12:20 PM IST
- The states of Goa, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh have not imposed any travel restrictions so far.
UP: 17-year-old missing girl’s body found in Aligarh field
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 12:00 PM IST
The girl had gone missing on Sunday afternoon and her family suspect she was raped before being strangled to death. Angry villagers attacked the police on Sunday evening, hours after the body was found, leaving a personnel injured in stone pelting
Modi govt worked for farmers unlike farm leaders who paid lip service: Nadda
By Sudhir Kumar, Varanasi
UPDATED ON MAR 01, 2021 11:58 AM IST
- Nadda claimed that since the BJP was working to carry the country forward, therefore, those with the opportunity to work in the BJP were lucky
‘Is that it? Didn’t even feel it’: PM Modi tells nurse after getting Covid shot
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 01, 2021 11:19 AM IST
Niveda said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was given Covaxin, the vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical firm Bharat Biotech Limited.
Covid-19 vaccination phase 2 begins. Here’s how to register for jab on Co-Win
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 10:14 AM IST
- Co-Win's citizen self-registration module will ensure fool-proof identification of deserving candidates for receiving the vaccines, the government has said.
Fuel prices hold steady for 2nd consecutive day after Saturday's record high
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ayshee Bhaduri, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 01, 2021 10:13 AM IST
- The prices of petrol and diesel in New Delhi on Monday stood at ₹91.17 per litre and ₹81.47 per litre respectively.
Chinese hacker groups target at least dozen Indian organisations
UPDATED ON MAR 01, 2021 10:15 AM IST
Among the organisations that were targeted were NTPC Limited, five key regional load dispatch centres that help in the management of the national power grid by balancing electricity supply and demand and two ports, says the study by Recorded Future, a US-based company
India's single-day Covid-19 cases drop to 15,510, tally over 11.11 million
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Meenakshi Ray, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 09:41 AM IST
The health ministry dashboard also showed that 14,301,266 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 so far in the first phase.
New curbs, night curfew in Punjab from today as Covid-19 cases continue to surge
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ayshee Bhaduri, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 09:20 AM IST
- The decision to bring in a slew of new rules to help the state curb the rising number of cases was taken by Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh after a meeting with health experts and senior officers on February 23.
UP launches Covid vaccine drive for elderly: 22.5K to get jab today
By Gaurav Saigal
PUBLISHED ON MAR 01, 2021 09:08 AM IST
Apart from the government hospitals, approximately 1,544 private hospitals in the state will also facilitate inoculation from March 4, with some of them beginning today itself. The approximate population of 50-plus people in the state is 35 million
