NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court issued a directive on Thursday for the Centre to deport 17 foreigners currently held in a detention center in Assam, highlighting that no criminal charges have been registered against them.A bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan made the decision after reviewing a report submitted by the State…
NEW DELHI: A day after Trinamool Congress chief and Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said she would provide “outside support” to the INDIA bloc if it wins Lok Sabha elections, Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said he does not trust her and that she can even go with BJP if it wins. Chowdhary also accused Mamata…
NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has summoned Bibhav Kumar to appear before it on Friday in connection with the Swati Maliwal assault case.The Commission has taken suo moto cognizance of a media post captioned “DCW chief Swati Maliwal accuses Arvind Kejriwal‘s personal secretary of assaulting her”. The post reported that Swati Maliwal,…
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday reiterated his claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is paving the way for home minister Amit Shah to assume the role of Prime Minister in the future.Addressing a joint press briefing with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow, Kejriwal said, “Today, in Lucknow I have…
NEW DELHI: Putting a premium on a 28-week-old fetus‘s right to life, Supreme Court Wednesday declined a 20-year-old unmarried woman’s plea to let her terminate her pregnancy, even though it had allowed rape survivors or minors to abort much beyond the 24-week outer limit prescribed under Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act. SC said, “The child…
Privatisation reduces the quality of care and worsens health outcomes of patients, a study published in Lancet suggests. The study analysed several studies conducted in high-income countries on the fallout of public hospitals being converted to for-profit or not-for-profit facilities and of services by public hospitals being outsourced.The paper published by researchers at the department…
Sankarshan Barik, a 41-year-old barber and CPI candidate from Bhubaneswar-North, offers free haircuts to voters to address pressing issues like the dumping yard problem, unemployment, and the impact on city youths. Through personal interactions, he aims to engage voters in discussions and advocate for positive change in the community. Source link
MUMBAI/NASHIK: While PM Modi was in the city for a road show on Wednesday to woo voters for Mumbai North East candidate Mihir Kotecha, this was countered by NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar who campaigned for MVA candidate Sanjay Dina Patil in the same constituency on the eve of Modi’s visit. Addressing a rally in…
NEW DELHI: In its reply to the EC notice, BJP not only strongly defended PM Narendra Modi‘s speeches during the poll campaign but also sought action against Congress and its allies, saying the opposition parties were trying to sow the seeds of communal disharmony and denigrate the Hindu religion for their politics of appeasement.Replying to…
NASHIK/KALYAN: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday claimed Congress had drawn up a plan to spend 15% of the Union Budget exclusively on Muslims when it was in office and said it now plans to carry forward the same “agenda” to “appease its votebank” and divide it into a “Muslim budget” and a “Hindu budget”.“Congress us…
