NEW DELHI: Amid the controversy triggered by a little-known Hindu outfit claiming that a temple exists below the Ajmer Sharif dargah, PM Modi on Thursday handed over the ‘chadar’ that would be offered at the dargah on his behalf during Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, continuing a tradition that he has followed ever since he…
NEW DELHI: In view of its recent ruling staying all proceedings on disputes over religious sites, Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the fight over the Bhojshala temple-Kamal Maula mosque complex in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh be tagged and heard along with petitions challenging the validity of the Places of Worship Act which is…
AHMEDABAD: Depriving an employee of leave encashment earned by him is violation of constitutional rights, Gujarat high court said, dismissing a plea by Ahmedabad MC against a labour court’s order directing the civic body to pay leave encashment dues to a retired employee.Upholding labour court’s order, Justice M K Thakker said: “Leave encashment is akin…
JAIPUR: The commissioner of the devasthan department in Udaipur has ruled against Siddhi Kumari, a three-term BJP MLA from Bikaner (East), and in favour of Rajyashree Kumari and other trustees in a dispute over management of charitable trusts established by the late Dr Karni Singh, Bikaner’s last titular maharaja.Siddhi Kumari was accused of misusing her…
NEW DELHI: DRDO should be in sync with rapidly evolving technological ecosystem, come up with cutting-edge products, develop ‘niche technologies’, enhance collaboration with private sector and include start-ups in R&D efforts, defence minister Rajnath Singh said Thursday.Interacting with scientists at the DRDO headquarters on its 67th foundation day, the minister asked them to keep an…
NEW DELHI: Coimbatore-based Santiago Martin, better known as ‘lottery king‘, has an annual turnover of Rs 15,000 crore from his lottery business, according to an ongoing ED probe that began in 2014. The enforcement agency has already attached properties and other assets worth over Rs 1,000 crore of Martin – Rs 622 crore by its…
NEW DELHI: Having fulfilled its objective to scrap the special status of J&K by rendering the controversial Article 370 defunct, the Modi government appears to have moved on to project the state as being one of the sources of India’s spiritual and cultural tradition as part of the larger Bharatiya culture.As part of the endeavour,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday asked Uttar Pradesh government to engage forensic experts to reconstruct a 40-year-old illegible FIR in a Kanpur anti-Sikh riot case and asked the state legal services authority to provide leading criminal lawyers to complainants and victims’ kin to oppose closure reports in nine such cases. It said professional fees of…
NEW DELHI: Taking note of Enforcement Directorate’s “high handedness” and “inhuman conduct” in interrogating a person for almost 15 hours which went beyond midnight, Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up ED and expressed concern over the agency’s approach in conducting probe.A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih said the agency was…
NEW DELHI: In a miraculous incident, a speed breaker turned life-saver for a ‘dead’ 65-year-old man, a resident of Kasaba-Bawada in western Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district. The incident unfolded on December 16, when an ambulance was carrying the body of Pandurang Ulpe, from the hospital to his home where his family members and relatives gathered to…
