The overall voter turnout in the first phase of the Jharkhand election on Wednesday, for 43 seats, was 64.8%, higher than 63.7% for these 43 seats in 2019.Rural areas, mostly tribal belts in JMM’s stronghold of Kolhan division, saw brisk voting since the morning, while urban apathy led to low turnouts across constituencies overlapping Ranchi…
NEW DELHI: Imposing a pan-India ban on instant ‘bulldozer justice’, Supreme Court on Wednesday said demolition of a citizen’s house merely because he is an accused or even a convict, that too without following the due process as prescribed by law, will be “totally unconstitutional”. It laid down a lengthy process for razing illegal structures…
6 with 10,000 charas chocolates held in Karnataka Charas chocolates?! Yes, the banned drug is available wrapped in chocolate-like covers and tagged as “Ayurvedic medicine” across Bengaluru and its outskirts. Jigani police recently arrested six men on drug peddling charges and recovered over 10,000 charas chocolates worth Rs 10 lakh from them. Charas is an…
KOLKATA: One should not “transgress the boundaries of decency and law”, Calcutta HC said Wednesday, adding that the width of freedom of expression neither gave anyone a “licence to abuse”, nor to make “irresponsible or motivated insinuations which can create violence in society”, although “the socio-democratic fabric of the country is elastic to accommodate unpopular…
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh HC Wednesday quashed all three FIRs filed against 1994-batch IPS officer G P Singh in connection with sedition, extortion and disproportionate assets charges.A division bench noted that the FIRs seem to have been filed solely to harass him. Singh was an ADGP when the FIRs were registered. According to Singh’s counsel, among the…
SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh HC annulled Wednesday the appointment of six Congress MLAs as chief parliamentary secretaries by CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s govt prior to the state’s cabinet expansion on Jan 8, 2023.Declaring these appointments unconstitutional, the court deemed Himachal Pradesh Parliamentary Secretaries (Appointment, Salaries, Allowances, Powers, Privileges & Amenities) Act, 2006, to be “void ab…
On June 27, district administration in Bareilly bulldozed a builder’s 12-room bungalow, reducing the structure and his children’s and grandchildren’s belongings to rubble for his alleged involvement in a gunfight. Days later, the houses of seven families in next door Moradabad were razed after a man was accused of orchestrating a dacoity and kidnapping. Today,…
MUMBAI: Violent clashes erupted between workers of the Shiv Sena and the Shiv Sena (UBT) outside Matoshree Club in Jogeshwari (East) on Tuesday night. Sticks and stones were hurled around as the violence continued for about an hour despite police intervention.Police sources said workers of the Sena faction, headed by Uddhav Thackeray, had gathered to…
Marco Rubio (Picture credit: AP) US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is nominating Senator Marco Rubio of Florida to be the United States secretary of state. He described Rubio as a “fearless warrior” and “a true friend to our allies.”In a post on the social media platform X, through Trump War Room,…
PAKUR/DUMKA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi stepped up campaigning in Santhal Pargana for the second phase of the Jharkhand assembly election, calling upon voters to unite and bring BJP into govt if they valued their “roti, beti, and maati (employment, daughters, and land)”.Ahead of polling on Nov 20 for the remaining 38 assembly seats in Jharkhand,…
