Pawar with Modi and a group of Maharashtra farmers. He had recently written to the PM, inviting him to the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan. NEW DELHI: NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar called on PM Narendra Modi Wednesday, weeks after the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was trounced in the assembly elections in Maharashtra by the BJP-headed Mahayuti.Pawar, along…
KANPUR: In a cul-de-sac of Kanpur’s Rajendra Mohal stands a small jewellery workshop where a man in his 60s is busy putting a batch of gold samples through chemical tests to ascertain their purity. One of the walls bears a framed photograph of the shop owner’s late father Jagdish Prasad, who was an additional district…
AI image of the Supreme Court. NEW DELHI: Giving trial courts full discretionary freedom in formulating their decisions in bail matters, Supreme Court has ruled that no constitutional court, be it SC or HC, can dictate a format for grant of bail to accused to be mandatorily followed by judicial officers.The court quashed proceedings initiated…
Ex-Union minister P P Choudhary, a BJP MP from Rajasthan’s Pali, is set to lead the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on ‘one nation, one election’ bills. Speaker Om Birla is said to have finalised the names of 21 Lok Sabha members. The rest 10 MPs in the panel will be from Rajya Sabha.The JPC has…
My resignation will make no difference to Congress’s fortune, said Shah. (File photo) NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday accused Congress of circulating a “doctored” version of his Rajya Sabha speech after having been exposed as “anti-Ambedkar, anti-Constitution, anti-reservation and anti-OBCs”, asserting that BJP was exploring all legal options in response to the…
NEW DELHI: Eyeing the upcoming assembly polls, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal promised to provide free treatment to all Delhiites aged above 60 years at both state-run and private health facilities if re-elected in polls due in Feb next year.Announcing the proposed ‘Sanjeevani’ scheme, Kejriwal said AAP volunteers would start visiting every household within two-three weeks…
<p>SFJ chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.<br></p> NEW DELHI: Secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) has doubled down on its claim of a R&AW-Moscow collaboration against Khalistanis, stating that Russian Embassy in Canada played a key role in facilitating the assassination of terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.SFJ chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said Russian Embassy shared “signal intelligence” with…
Opposition MPs stage a protest seeking Shah’s apology on Wednesday. NEW DELHI: The opposition on Wednesday opened a new front against the Centre over home minister Amit Shah’s alleged insult of B R Ambedkar. It held noisy protests in Parliament, leading to both Houses being adjourned and drawing a sharp retaliation from govt MPs.Leading the…
Deputy CM Eknath Shinde in Nagpur on Wednesday. BJP MLC Ram Shinde’s filing of nomination is being seen as a setback for Shinde-led Sena, which was seeking the legislative council chairperson’s post. (PTI) NAGPUR: BJP MLC Ram Shinde filed his nomination for the election to the chairperson of the legislative council on Wednesday. While chief…
NEW DELHI: A three-judge bench of Supreme Court on Wednesday solved a 20-year-old riddle that plagued levying of excise duty – whether pure coconut oil is to be classified as an edible oil or under cosmetics as hair oil?This question had got a split verdict from the bench of the then CJI and Justice R…
