The ruling BJP will hold nationwide protests against Pakistan and its foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto on Saturday, and will burn the latter’s effigies. Slamming Bhutto’s comments, the BJP said, the “reprehensible and uncalled for remarks have further lowered the image of Pakistan on the global platform. Let Pakistan not forget that their students were evacuated […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday said a public servant can be convicted of illegal gratification in a corruption case on the basis of circumstantial evidence when there is no direct oral or documentary evidence against them.A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice SA Nazeer said complainants as well as the prosecution should make sincere efforts […]
Amid opposition parties’ political fury over Chinese soldiers’ attempts last week to transgress the LAC (line of actual control) in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang, the Congress has demanded prime minister Narendra Modi explain his ‘relationship’ with that country. The party tweeted a graphic claiming Chinese state-run media Global Times said ‘(if) Modi loses Gujarat then that […]
The wholesale price-based inflation declined to a 21-month low of 5.85 per cent in November on easing prices of food, fuel and manufactured items. After remaining in double digits for 19 months, the wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation declined to 8.39 per cent in October. The inflation was 14.87 per cent in November 2021. […]
The Prayagraj unit of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday took custody remand of mafioso-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in connection with a money laundering case lodged against him last year. A local court had issued warrant B against Mukhtar Ansari, who was lodged in Banda jail, in the money laundering case on the application filed by […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain submissions seeking an early setting up of a fresh Bench to hear Bilkis Bano’s plea challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts by the Gujarat government in her gang-rape case.A Bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha was urged by lawyer Shobha Gupta, […]
Supreme Court judge Bela M Trivedi on Tuesday recused herself from hearing a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, who was gangraped and seven members of her family killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots, challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the case by the state government.As soon as a bench of Justices Ajay […]
Giving details of the clash between the armies of India and China near Tawang, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday told Parliament that People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops of China tried to transgress across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Yangtse and unilaterally alter the status quo.The attempt was contested “in a firm and […]
A controversial private member’s Bill that seeks to provide for a panel to prepare a Uniform Civil Code was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Friday.‘The Uniform Civil Code in India Bill, 2020’ was introduced in the Upper House amid protests from opposition parties. BJP MP Kirodi Lal Meena moved for leave to introduce the […]