By Asim Kamal Expressing concern over the current state of the judiciary, Rajya Sabha MP and senior advocate Kapil Sibal on Sunday said some members of the institution have “let us down” and “I hang my head in shame” for what has happened in the recent past. In an interview with PTI, Sibal also said […]
A private bus fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district on Monday, leaving 16 people, including some school children, dead, a senior official said. Kullu Deputy Commissioner Ashutosh Garg said the Sainj bound bus fell into the gorge near Jangla village at around 8.30 am. District officials and rescue teams have reached the […]
The four-day old Shiv Sena-BJP government will face the floor test on July 4 during the special two-day session of the Legislative Assembly beginning here Sunday. The election to the post of the Speaker of the House will be held Sunday after the House proceedings begin at 11 am, an official said. Sena MLA and […]
Environmentalists are gearing up for another round of battle over the Metro-3 car shed project, which the new Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra has proposed to move back to Mumbai’s Aarey forest, an 1,800 acre area which is often termed as the city’s ‘green lung’. Apart from leopards, some 300 different varieties of flora and […]
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao not welcoming Narendra Modi on his arrival in Hyderabad is an insult not to the individual but to the institution of prime minister, the BJP said on Saturday. Addressing a press conference at the BJP national executive meeting here, Union minister Smriti Irani said it is a usual practice […]
The Delhi Police Friday said it had issued a notice to suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma on June 18 and questioned her the same day for allegedly hurting religious sentiments, hours after the Supreme Court rebuked her for her controversial comments against the Prophet. She was booked over her controversial remarks on the Prophet during […]
A nomination for the presidential poll will be rejected if it is not backed by 50 proposers and 50 seconders from the electoral college made up of members of Parliament and legislative assemblies. The nomination will also be rejected if an aspirant does not pay Rs 15,000 in cash or present a receipt showing such […]
The Rajasthan Police on Tuesday nabbed both the killers of Kanhaiya Lal, within a few hours after the tailor was beheaded by the duo for allegedly supporting BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on social media. The perpetrators of the gruesome murder — identified as Riaz Akhtari and Ghouse Mohammad — were arrested just four hours after […]
The ED has summoned Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday for questioning in a money laundering probe linked to the re-development of Mumbai’s ‘Patra Chawl’. The ED probe revolves around the Sena leader, along with his wife and some close associates. Siddharth Nagar, popularly known as Patra Chawl, is located in the northern Mumbai […]
Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president and ‘Khalistan’ proponent Simranjit Singh Mann, who won the Lok Sabha by-elections from Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s home turf Sangrur on Sunday, attributed his victory to Khalistani militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. “It is a win of our party workers and of the teachings that Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale has given,” the […]