Dalbir Kaur, the sister of Sarabjit Singh who succumbed to injuries after being brutally beaten by inmates in a Pakistan jail in 2013, died here on Sunday. She was 67.Dalbir Kaur had hit the headlines when she led a vociferous campaign for the release of her brother from the Pakistan jail, where he had been […]
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s helicopter made an emergency landing in Varanasi after a bird hit the chopper on Sunday. The incident took place as the helicopter left the Reserve Police Lines Ground in Varanasi for Lucknow. Initial inputs suggest the chief minister came back to the circuit house. Now, he will leave for […]
The national executive of the Shiv Sena on Saturday passed a resolution authorizing Maharashtra Chief Minister and party chief Uddhav Thackeray to take action against the rebels.Faced with rebellion by senior state minister Eknath Shinde who has claimed the support of majority of Sena MLAs, the executive also passed a resolution that no other political […]
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 […]
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 […]