UDAIPUR: A succession ceremony for Nathdwara MLA Vishvaraj Singh, the eldest son of the late Mahendra Singh Mewar, took place on Monday amidst a raging dispute over Udaipur royal family properties in Chittorgarh and Udaipur. The dispute saw Vishvaraj’s uncle, Arvind Singh Mewar, the younger brother of Mahendra Singh Mewar, place public notices in local…
SRINAGAR: J&K govt issued instructions Monday for grand celebrations of “Samvidhan Diwas”, commemorating the adoption of the Constitution on Nov 26, 1950. This will be the first such event since J&K’s accession to India in 1947.Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha will lead the ceremony in Srinagar. Tuesday’s event will feature a reading of the Preamble by…
JAMMU: Protests against a proposed ropeway along the Vaishno Devi trek route took an ugly turn Monday as shopkeepers, and pony and palanquin owners clashed with police at Katra base camp in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Reasi district. One policeman was injured in the clash.Protests began on Nov 22 after the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine…
PUNE: The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) could lose its regional party recognition and ‘railway engine’ symbol after its flop show in the assembly election, experts said, citing the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order 1968.The Raj Thackeray-led party drew a blank in all the 125 seats it contested, including Mahim constituency from where his son,…
JAIPUR: Rajasthan High Court on Monday issued notices to six former and current MLAs, including former minister Shanti Dhariwal, seeking their reply in the case of mass resignations by 81 MLAs, mostly of Congress, in Sept 2022. The resignations were submitted when a Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting was ordered in Jaipur by the party’s…
Jack Smith asked the court to drop election intereference charge against Donald Trump before his inauguration on January 20. Special counsel Jack Smith Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss the four charges against President-elect Donald Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election before his inauguration on January 20. Smith cited longstanding Justice Department…
Microsoft 365 services went down for a large number of users worldwide today. Thousands of users of Microsoft 365 services reported having issues with services like Outlook and Teams on Monday. In social media posts and comments on platforms like outage tracker Downdetector, impacted users said that they were having trouble checking their emails, loading…
The bill says two doctors must assess the request and check they have reached their decision voluntarily and then final permission is granted by a high court judge who allows a life-ending “approved substance” — to be self-administered — to be prescribed to them. LONDON: Hindus and Sikh leaders in the UK have joined Christian,…
The anti-government ‘Final Call’ protest rally of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), that started from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Peshawar on Sunday, has now reached the outskirts of Islamabad where massive security arrangements have been made to prevent its entry into the country’s capital. ISLAMABAD: Amid fierce teargas clashes with law enforcement personnel, tens of thousands of protesters of…
Political circles went aflutter after witnessing a rare family bond unfolding in Satara – Nationalist Congress Party (SP) MLA Rohit R. Pawar touching the feet of Nationalist Congress Party President Ajit A. Pawar – here on Monday. KOHLAPUR/PUNE: NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Monday encountered Ajit Pawar at Karad’s Preeti Sangam, the memorial of…
