Nearly 1,000 people gathered at the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal on Friday for ‘Jumma namaz’. Police and local administration ensured heavy security in the restive town. Most locals welcomed the apex court order staying proceedings in trial court NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday directed the Sambhal district administration to maintain peace and…
NEW DELHI: In a significant response to growing cases of arrests of officers of central probe agencies by state police, Supreme Court Friday pitched for balance between competing objectives of protecting the Centre’s functionaries from vengeful actions which could trigger a constitutional crisis, while not restraining state police from probing allegations of corruption.A bench of…
Jammu & Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: J&K LG Manoj Sinha on Friday ordered the dismissal of two employees of UT govt, a pharmacist Naika and a teacher Zahir Abbas, over their alleged involvement in terrorist acts including murder of a politician and leaking critical information about movement of security forces…
T’PURAM: Left-governed Kerala’s social security benevolence allegedly extends to BMW owners and people living in airconditioned homes, many of whom are suspected of pocketing subsistence pensions based on fudged income certificates.The LDF govt ordered a vigilance probe recently against officials of Kottakkal municipality in Malappuram after an audit by the district finance department revealed that…
BHOPAL: Cheetah Nirvah is turning out to be prime suspect in killing and mutilation of her cubs inside an enclosure at Kuno National Park, sources told TOI on Friday.If so, it would be an extremely rare event as cheetahs are not known to kill their young, unlike other cats. Experts are trying to understand if…
HYDERABAD: After neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, Telangana govt is also set to junk the two-child norm for candidates of rural local body polls, reports Roushan Ali. A bill to amend the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, 2018, to do away with the bar will be tabled in the forthcoming winter session of the assembly.Recently, the Andhra assembly…
NEW DELHI: Ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Friday described as “unfortunate” Congress member Rahul Gandhi’s recent snide remarks against US President Joe Biden and PM Narendra Modi, saying these were “not in keeping with India’s friendly ties with the US”.While addressing an election rally in Maharashtra, Gandhi had said that Modi seemed to be…
NEW DELHI: Dialling up pressure on Bangladesh, govt on Friday said the interim govt in Dhaka must live up to its responsibility of protecting all minorities, instead of dismissing recent incidents of violence against Hindus and other minority communities as ‘media exaggeration’.Responding to written questions in Lok Sabha about violence against Hindus in Bangladesh, external…
NAGPUR: Bombay high court‘s Nagpur bench recently ruled that sexual intercourse with a wife under 18 years of age, even if consensual, constitutes rape.The HC upheld the trial court’s order sentencing the convict 10 years of rigorous imprisonment, reinforcing Supreme Court’s precedent in Independent Thought versus Union of India. Delivering the verdict, Justice Govinda Sanap…
NEW DELHI: Rasik Chandra Mandal was born in a nondescript village of Malda district in 1920, the year Indian National Congress launched a non-cooperation movement against the British. More than a century later, he is pleading with the Supreme Court as a lifer for his freedom, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. Convicted in 1994 in a 1988…
