A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi is expected to deliver an order on Thursday linked to the Gyanvapi Mosque. A petition was filed last week seeking the removal of court-appointed advocate commissioner, Ajay Kumar Mishra, who has been tasked with carrying out a survey of the Maa Shringar Gauri Sthal inside the mosque complex. The […]
North Korea confirmed its first-ever Covid cases on Thursday and declared a “serious emergency”, with leader Kim Jong Un ordering lockdowns across the country. The nuclear-armed country had never admitted to a case of Covid-19 and the government had imposed a rigid coronavirus blockade of its borders since the start of the pandemic in 2020. […]
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday hit back at Law Minister Kiren Rijiju over his remarks after the Supreme Court put on hold the application of sedition law, saying he has no authority to draw any “arbitrary Lakshman rekha”.As the Supreme Court put on hold the application of sedition law, Rijiju invoked “Lakshman rekha” […]
Over 40 people were injured when a passenger plane of China’s Tibet Airlines with 122 people on board veered off the runway and caught fire while taking off in the country’s southwest Chongqing city on Thursday.All 113 passengers and nine crew members aboard the flight from Chongqing to Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous Region had […]
Indian rupee tumbled to a new low, while bonds and stocks retreated amid growing worries that accelerating inflation may force the central bank to tighten rates more aggressively. The rupee dropped as much as 0.5% to 77.6313 per dollar on Thursday, hitting a record low for the second time this week. The benchmark Sensex Index […]
A 20-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by two persons from a minority community in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara city, prompting authorities to suspend mobile internet services as a measure to maintain law and order.Right-wing groups called on traders to keep their shops shut as protest against the late Tuesday night incident. Adarsh Tapdia, a resident […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre and states not to register any cases of sedition under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code pending an exercise to review the colonial law. “It will be appropriate not to use this provision of law till further reexamination is over. We hope Centre and States will […]
Himachal Pradesh Police have arrested Harvir Singh, a resident of Morinda in Punjab, in connection with the pro-Khalistan flags hoisted at the entrance of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly at Dharamsala recently.With less than six months to go for the state election, the government was under pressure from all quarters for an early breakthrough in the […]
Severe Cyclone Asani weakened to a cyclonic storm on Wednesday as it barrelled towards north coastal Andhra Pradesh and came within 34 km of Narsapur in the state, packing wind speed of 85 km per hour and bringing heavy rains to the region, the weather office said here.The weather system was expected to move away […]