In his first reaction to the Supreme Court verdict which on Thursday said that Uddhav Thackeray could have been reinstated had he not resigned, the former Maharashtra chief minister said this is not his personal fight to be the chief minister. “My resignation could be a mistake but I am not seeing things like that. […]
Noting that the real power of administration must rest with the elected arm of the government, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Delhi Government has control over ‘services’ in the National Capital Territory, excluding the matters relating to public order, police and land.A five-judge Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India DY […]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out raids at multiple locations in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir as part of its investigation into a terror conspiracy case, officials said.The raids were carried out at the residence of Abdul Khaliq Regoo at Kansipora, Javid Ahmad Dhobi at Syed Kareem and Shoaib Ahmad Choor […]
Punjab Police have arrested five suspects, including a woman, after another low-intensity blast was reported near the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Thursday midnight– the third explosion in less than a week. The blast occurred just behind the Guru Ram Dass Inn. CCTV footage showed that the suspect allegedly threw the bomb from the second […]
Ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on the war between ex-Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and his successor Eknath Shinde – over the legitimacy of the latter’s government – Thackeray strongman Sanjay Raut warned his one-time party colleagues, including Shinde, they’d be ‘finished’ if the top court ruled in the ex-CM’s favour. “If the 16 […]
Owing to its large birth cohort, India leads a list of 10 countries that together account for 60 per cent of global maternal deaths, stillbirths and newborn deaths, and 51 per cent of live births globally, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday.The latest published estimate in the progress tracking report by the […]
A Delhi court on Wednesday sought a status report from Delhi Police over the sexual harassment case against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.The judge issued notice to Delhi Police on a plea moved by the protesting wrestlers seeking monitoring of the investigation and recording of the statement of the alleged victims […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear on May 12 a plea by the producers of controversial multilingual film ‘The Kerala Story’ against the ban on screening of the film by the West Bengal government.Senior advocate Harish Salve mentioned the matter for urgent listing before a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice […]
A 22-year-old doctor was stabbed to death on Wednesday at a taluk hospital in Kottarakkara here allegedly by a man who was brought there by police after being involved in a fight with his family members. According to an officer of Kottarakkara police, while a wound on the man’s leg was being dressed by the […]
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s speech in Dholpur reflects that his leader is Vasundhara Raje and not Sonia Gandhi, Sachin Pilot said in a no holds barred attack against his party colleague on Tuesday.The Congress leader also categorically denied Gehlot’s charges during his speech on Sunday that the MLAs who rebelled against him in 2020 […]