AAP MLA Kunwar Vijay Pratap on Wednesday resigned from the sacrilege panel following differences with Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann government on handling the probe into the cases.The MLA is a former Inspector General of Police. He had resigned from the police on the same issue. The MLA headed the Committee on Government’s Assurances in […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted interim bail for eight weeks to Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra, who is accused of killing farmers by running them over with his car in Lakhimpur Kheri during the 2021 farmers’ protest.A Bench led by Justice Surya Kant — which had on January 19 reserved its […]
Twenty-one large unnamed islands of Andaman and Nicobar were named on Monday after Param Vir Chakra awardees in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of Parakram Diwas. He also unveiled the model of the National Memorial dedicated to Netaji to be built on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep, earlier known […]
The hunt for a gunman who killed 10 people at a ballroom dance club during Lunar New Year celebrations ended Sunday when authorities found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the van he used to flee after people thwarted his attempt at a second shooting.Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna identified the man […]
The Supreme Court on Monday said it would consider setting up a three-judge bench to adjudicate the case related to wearing of the Islamic head covering in Karnataka schools following its split verdict.A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandarchud and Justices V Ramasubramanian and JB Pardiwala took note of the submissions by senior advocate Meenakshi […]
UK police on Friday fined Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car while filming a social media video. Without naming Sunak, Lancashire Police said it had issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty. “Following the circulation of a video on social media […]
India’s top wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia on Friday wrote to president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) PT Usha on sexual harassment allegations against the Wrestling Federation of India and its chief Brij Bhushan Saran Singh. Meanwhile, top Indian wrestlers’ meeting with Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur […]
Alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar had played with “my emotions and “made my life hell,” Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez has told Delhi’s Patiala House Courts in a statement, media reports claimed. Fernandez, in the statement, said Chandrashekhar had introduced himself as the owner of Sun TV and claimed (late Tamil Nadu chief minister) J Jayalalithaa was […]
The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday opposed in the Supreme Court the bail plea of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son, who is one of the accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.Additional Advocate General for Uttar Pradesh Garima Prashad told a bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice JK Maheshwari that the crime is […]
The helicopter crash near a kindergarten outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv killed 16 including Ukraine interior minister, news agency AFP reported. Ukrainian interior minister’s deputy and another official were also killed in the crash, BBC reported. “In total, 16 people are currently known to have died,” the head of national police, Igor Klymenko, said. Among […]