GUWAHATI: A 31-year-old tribal mother of three was allegedly raped and burned to death in her village home in Manipur’s Jiribam district late Thursday by armed intruders who terrorised the settlement with indiscriminate gunfire, looting and arson that left 17 dwellings gutted.An FIR based on a complaint filed by the victim’s husband with Jiribam police…
Outgoing Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: CJI Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud‘s quarter-century-long judicial career, marked by pathbreaking judgments and judicial reforms, ended on Friday with effusive praises sprinkled with superlatives from eminent to little-known lawyers during his farewell ceremony in the largest courtroom of Supreme Court that unprecedentedly…
NEW DELHI: Three judges on the seven-judge bench penned powerful dissents to the CJI D Y Chandrachud-authored majority opinion on behalf of four judges and were unanimous that the 1967 Azeez Basha judgment had correctly decided that Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was not a minority educational institution.Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Satish C Sharma…
NEW DELHI: Madhya Pradesh experienced extreme weather events on 176 days, the most in the country, while Kerala recorded the highest number of weather-related fatalities at 550, followed by Madhya Pradesh (353) and Assam (256) this year, as per Centre for Science and Environment’s annual ‘State of extreme weather report’ released on Friday.The report shows…
Union home minister Amit Shah during the ‘3rd Anti-terror Conference’ hosted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), in New Delhi (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Central and state law agencies engaged in the fight against terror on Friday agreed on the need to shift towards firmer and more collaborative efforts, backed by a standardised strategy,…
This is a representational image (Pic credit: AP) NEW DELHI: Over 10.8 lakh traditional artisans and craftspeople have been upskilled under govt’s flagship scheme PM Vishwakarma since its launch in Sept last year, with the top five trades being tailoring, masonry, carpentry, naai (barber) and malakaar (garland maker), report Ambika Pandit and Manash Pratim Gohain….
PUNE: Ideological differences don’t come in the way of Baramati MP Supriya Sule being friends with politicians across party lines, but the NCP (SCP) president is clear when she says she does not trust the BJP’s senior leadership, both at the Centre and in the state.In an exclusive interview with TOI on Friday, Supriya ruled…
MUMBAI: In a review meeting on the Maharashtra assembly polls on Friday, chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar strongly condemned undignified remarks made against female leaders during the election campaign.This comes in the wake of derogatory language used against Congress leader Jayshree Thorat by BJP politician Vasant Deshmukh in a public meeting and also comments made…
MORADABAD/AGRA: UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath launched a sharp attack on Akhilesh Yadav-headed Samajwadi Party (SP) during back-to-back rallies in Moradabad and Muzaffarnagar on Friday while campaigning for the Kundarki and Meerapur bypolls. Targeting SP’s “track record”, the CM accused the party of “sheltering criminal elements and failing to ensure the safety of women during…
AHMEDABAD: Eleven security guards hired by an industrial unit in Sanand GIDC to protect the premises, themselves turned thieves and stole submersible pumps worth Rs 4 lakh. Deciding to take advantage of the Diwali holidays when the factory was closed for five days, they allegedly crafted an elaborate plan which involved switching off the power…
