Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday hailed the Supreme Court verdict in the 2002 Gujarat riots which rejected plea seeking probe into ‘larger conspiracy’.In an interview to news agency ANI, Shah said all allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi were politically motivated. “A tall leader fought this 18-19-yr-long fight without saying a word and […]
United States president Joe Biden on Friday said lawmakers had finally responded to the demands of families whose loved ones had died in various tragic shootings over the past years by clearing legislation ‘to address the scourge of gun violence in our communities’. The Senate late Thursday approved a bipartisan bill with a narrow package […]
Punjab’s Budget session began here today with obituary references. The House paid tributes to former ministers Tota Singh and Hardipinder Singh Badal, former MLAs Sukhdev Singh Sukhladi and Shingara Ram Sahungra, Arjuna Awardees Gurcharan Singh Bhangu and Hari Chand.The House also paid tributes to freedom fighters Swarn Singh, Crora Singh and Sukhraj Singh Sandhawalia. The […]
Shiv Sena troubleshooter Sanjay Raut began Friday with a jab at the Bharatiya Janata Party – which he, and his allies in the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party, have accused of engineering Eknath Shinde’s revolt. Raut claimed that a union minister had threatened NCP chief Sharad Pawar, saying ‘if attempts are made to the Maha […]
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking a probe into the “larger conspiracy” related to the 2002 Gujarat riots that left over 1,000 people dead, saying it is devoid of merits. A bench of justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari, and CT Ravikumar upheld a Gujarat court’s order accepting a Special Investigation Team (SIT)’s […]
Maharashtra rebel leader Eknath Shinde on Thursday tweeted a letter by Aurangabad MLA, Sanjay Shirsat, that, according to him, sheds light on the grievances of the legislators who are upset with the NCP-Shiv Sena-Congress combine. The letter comes a day after chief minister Uddhav Thackeray broke his silence on the crisis and said he was […]
Maharashtra chief minister and Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray left his official residence Varsha and move back to Matoshree, the residence of Thackeray family at Bandra, Mumbai. The move comes amid a massive political crisis in the western state following a rebellion by disgruntled Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, who is currently camping in BJP-ruled […]
As the political crisis continued to worsen, Shiv Sena Chief Spokesperson and MP Sanjay Raut made a telling tweet that the situation in Maharashtra is headed towards ‘dissolution’ of the Legislative Assembly, here on Wednesday. Interacting with mediapersons briefly, Raut said: “At the most what will happen.. Our government will lose the majority in the […]
India reported 12,249 new coronavirus infections and 13 deaths, while active cases went up by over 2,300 in a 24-hour span, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.The latest updates pushed the country’s overall covid numbers to 4,33,31,645 cases, 5,24,903 deaths and 81,687 active cases, the data released at 8am showed. The […]
The Centre has accorded a Z+ security cover of CRPF commandos to the NDA’s presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, officials said on Wednesday. BJP president J P Nadda announced the candidature of Murmu, a party leader from Odisha who served as Jharkhand governor, at a press conference on Monday night following a meeting of the party’s […]