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Medicines meant for the poor stolen, resold with fake labels: Delhi cops bust Rs 6 crore racket

4 min readMay 31, 2026 04:03 AM IST The accused being brought to Patiala House Court. (ANI)The Delhi Police said Saturday it had uncovered a Pakistan ISI-underworld terror module and arrested eight persons, including a Nepali national, who were allegedly planning attacks on vital installations, security establishments and police personnel in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh and cities in Punjab. Police officers said the arrests of the eight, some linked to fugitive underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim, were made in a coordinated multi-state operation, uncovering a conspiracy allegedly orchestrated by Pakistan ISI, underworld operatives and the network of gangster Shahzad Bhatti operating from Pakistan and Dubai.The arrests were made in Maharashtra, Punjab and Delhi and police said the alleged operatives were in touch with handlers in Pakistan and Bangladesh. According to police, 23-year-old Vijay ‘Shooter’, who hails from Mirzapur, was arrested from Pune on May 14. Based on the information he provided, his associate Nitish Paswan, 23, was nabbed from Sahibganj on May 17. Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Anil Shukla said, “Vijay was in regular contact with members of the Shahzad Bhatti network operating from Pakistan and Dubai. Vijay was tasked to carry out various criminal and terror activities in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and UP. He was also tasked to recruit youth for executing terror activities in Delhi-NCR.” Nitish and Vijay, police said, confirmed that there were modules in Delhi and Mumbai which were planning attacks in both the cities, and had already done a recce of multiple bridges in Mumbai and the Dadar station. Based on Vijay’s disclosures, two men — Tauqeer Sheikh and Arbaz Khan — were nabbed from Mumbai last Wednesday.Story continues below this ad “Both were in contact with ISI handlers Yawar Khan and Munna Jhingada. They were recruited by one Huzaifa from Mumbai, who is absconding and was working at the behest of Shahzad Bhatti, Yawar and Munna. They were tasked to carry out grenade attacks and firing at vital installations, security establishments and police personnel in Delhi and Mumbai,” Shukla said. Arbaz and Sheikh also told police they had prepared a team to attack security personnel and government buildings in Delhi. On Saturday morning, police nabbed three men from Punjab who were headed to Chattarpur in Delhi. A police officer said, “All the three accused, Harvinder Singh, Gagandeep Singh and Manjeet Singh, are residents of Punjab. They were intercepted on the Mehrauli-Badarpur Road around 1 am today and a heavy cache of arms and ammunition, including grenades and automatic pistols, were recovered.” Police said they also arrested a Nepali national, Ang Kami Lama, in the early hours of Saturday. He had been tasked by Munna Jhingada to arrange a hideout for the accused in Delhi and fund their activities.Story continues below this ad Shukla said, “Ang Kami Lama was lodged in a Thailand jail from 2001 to 2018 in a narcotics case. There he came in contact with co-inmates Aizaz Rasool and Md. Salim alias Munna Jhingada, both from Pakistan. After coming out of jail, Lama maintained contact with Jhingada.” Senior officers said the module pointed to the re-activation of the Dawood network. The arrests come 20 days after security personnel were alerted about the possibility of a terror attack in the Capital. Intelligence inputs, sources said, had hinted at suicide attacks and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) mounted on vehicles. Among the possible targets were the BJP headquarters on Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg and other crowded areas in Central Delhi, according to sources.Story continues below this ad In April, the Special Cell arrested 11 people following raids conducted across Delhi and Punjab. Police recovered weapons, surveillance equipment, and solar powered CCTV cameras installed near government establishments.

Indian ExpressMay 30

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We pack up at 6 in South: Jyotika, Sonakshi expose Bollywoods double standards on Deepikas 8-hr row

In Sonakshi Sinha’s latest film, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s courtroom drama System on Prime Video India, she plays a budding lawyer and the daughter of a top advocate (played by Ashutosh Gowariker), who requires her to win 10 cases in a row as a public prosecutor if she wants to serve as a partner at his reputed law firm. “What is this reverse nepotism?’,” her character asks in the film.But Sonakshi tells SCREEN in an exclusive interview that she’s never had to face “reverse nepotism” in her real life, even though her father Shatrughan Sinha is a veteran actor. He had no direct part to play in launching her, as Sonakshi made a dream debut opposite Salman Khan in Abhinav Kashyap’s 2010 hit Dabangg.‘My dad has been a silent supporter’ “My father has always given me the freedom to choose my path, right since when I was studying fashion designing. That was the path I’d chosen for myself. Life chose another path for me. That’s a different story,” she says, smiling. “He’s always been a silent supporter. No matter what happens, he’ll have my back. To have that kind of strength and support from your father means a lot to a girl in today’s day and age,” she adds. Sonakshi Sinha plays a budding lawyer in System.The only advice she got from her father once she turned an actor? “You go do your thing, and I know you’d do well.” Sonakshi admits those words have given her “wings”. Unlike her onscreen father in System, Shatrughan Sinha has never been a taskmaster. “My dad is very soft. He looks tough and does all this ‘khamosh, vamosh, and all’, but he’s very soft,” she says, laughing. But the softness doesn’t imply that he’d sugarcoat the criticism for his daughter. “He does tell me where it’s due. Everybody knows that about my father that he’s very honest and transparent, and he says it when he needs to say it. So, I always appreciate it when he comes to me with the honest, honest truth,” adds Sonakshi, who’s shared screen space with him only once, for their cameos in the song “Rafta Rafta Medley” from the 2018 action comedy Yamla Pagla Deewana: Phir Se. ‘There was a shift in me with Akira’ Shatrughan Sinha, a true-blue commercial star of the 1970s and the 1980s, also never interfered in Sonakshi’s career trajectory. After playing the leading lady in money-spinners like Dabangg, Rowdy Rathore, Son of Sardaar, Dabangg 2 (2012), R… Rajkumar (2013), and Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (2014), Sonakshi couldn’t help headline her own action movie, AR Murugadoss’ Akira in 2016. She agrees that there was a shift in her mindset and consequently, career choices after that. “Hundred percent, and that clearly shows in the choices of my films after. I didn’t want to settle for roles anymore,” asserts Sonakshi. “I needed meatier parts. I needed to portray women in a certain light on screen, which made me feel empowered more than anything else. I started choosing my roles in a way where all my characters had agency. They were relatable, aspirational, and strong in their opinions and ways,” adds the actor.Story continues below this ad Sonakshi Sinha in Akira.Of course, choosing that path has come with its own share of setbacks. Films like Noor (2017), Welcome to New York (2018), Kalank (2019), Khandaani Shafakhana (2019), Double XL (2022), and Nikita Roy (2025) haven’t exactly landed at the box office. “Honestly, I’ve been better off. There have been hits and misses, films that have worked and those that haven’t, but that’s fine because the process of playing those characters was so fulfilling for me as an actor that I finally feel like I’m doing the right thing,” confesses Sonakshi. But even the shift within her hasn’t deterred Sonakshi from continuing to pick tentpoles like Force 2 (2016), Dabangg 3 (2019), Bhuj: The Pride of India (2021), Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (2024), and Jatadhara (2025). But she maintains that she didn’t strike this balance out of fear. “There was no fear. I’ve done everything. I’ve done the singing and dancing around the trees. I

Indian ExpressMay 28

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Experts warn against channelising Kheer Ganga | India News

“Is there no place in India worth visiting?” asked the PM. Noting the trend of destination weddings abroad, he warned of the disastrous consequences of dipping forex reserves and said with some romantic flair, “There is no more sacred place to get married than Bharat”. 4 min readMay 17, 2026 06:58 AM IST First published on: May 17, 2026 at 06:58 AM IST Speaking in Vadodara recently, the Prime Minister was gently critical about people choosing to go abroad for summer vacations. Emphasising the need for austerity because of the continuing crisis in West Asia, PM Modi appealed for the conservation of foreign exchange. “Is there no place in India worth visiting?” asked the PM. Noting the trend of destination weddings abroad, he warned of the disastrous consequences of dipping forex reserves and said with some romantic flair, “There is no more sacred place to get married than Bharat”. To answer the PM’s question candidly, there is almost no place in India worth visiting. Our hill stations are beset with traffic congestion, water issues and overflowing garbage; while the crummiest islands of Thailand, like Pattaya, are superior to the fanciest parts of Goa — at a fraction of the cost. There’s considerably more bang for your buck in Phuket, Vietnam, Almaty and Bali, which is why the Indian tourist has merrily abandoned Bharat for these places. Only to discover, to one’s amazement, that the second one steps out of India, systems work with reliable predictability. Needless to say, tax-paying citizens have every right to spend precious time off and hard-earned cash any way they want, on pristine locales and exploring new cultures. And indeed, the attempt to shift responsibility to the 1% actually hosting marriages abroad ignores the economics of the wedding industry — holding events in Sri Lanka, Bangkok and Istanbul are cheaper, and arguably more memorable than Delhi, Udaipur and Jaipur.All things being equal, the make/holiday/wed in India thrust is a reasonable ask at a difficult time — but is it our moral responsibility to pledge allegiance to the decrepit and crumbling Lonavalas’ and Manalis’ when it’s so evident that our money is better utilised elsewhere? The PM’s sermon, directed at the tiny smattering of well-to-do Indians, suggested we are duty bound to meet the current moment by redirecting self-interest toward the greater good. A hark back to JFK’s unforgettable line, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. However, our experiences profoundly shape our civic and moral ambitions. For example, after the agonising bloodshed of the last three years, teenagers in Israel are challenging forced conscription, saying they don’t want to be complicit in a genocide. Can that be called unpatriotic? Human beings develop ideas about justice by the application of abstract principles absorbed over decades, combined with the rules we follow in our daily lives. A sense of duty makes us stop at red lights, or cast votes, for that matter. Ethics, broadly, are about how we choose to live but also, how we treat one other. In that vein, there’s an expectation that society’s rulers will act in ways to provide the best outcome for everyone. The Indian government was mysteriously silent about the impending chaos when they were consumed by winning elections, addressing the fallout of the Iran war only after their selfish objectives were met. But do the wily manoeuverings of the political class absolve ordinary citizens from their patriotic duty, of cutting back on frills during wartime, to produce more benefit than harm? If one subscribes to the postmodern perspective that there can never be any one fully correct answer to any moral dilemma, it’s slightly easier to distinguish between alleged rights or wrongs. Should someone who’s booked non refundable tickets to London and paid in advance for accommodation cancel their trip and philosophically absorb the loss? I think not. But if one was at a planning stage fo

Indian ExpressMay 17

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