RANCHI: In a stern warning to the Centre, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday said his govt would take tough measures, including taking a legal recourse and forcing public sector coal units operating out of the state to shut down their mining operations, if no sincere efforts were made to clear its coal-related dues.Speaking…
Security personnel patrol in a sensitive area of Manipur (PTI photo) The Union home minister will deploy approximately 90 companies which means over 10,000 additional CAPF troops amid the violence and killings in Manipur. While addressing a presser, Kuldiep Singh, security advisor of Manipur government said that a meeting was held with the Army, police,…
NEW DELHI: The J&K LG will, prima facie, have the same powers as the Delhi LG, and also control prisons, which come under the state govt in Delhi. Observers are not ruling out recurrent strain in working ties between the LG and the elected govt — a common occurrence in Delhi — over several issues….
NEW DELHI: In a first, Jharkhand government has moved Supreme Court seeking contempt of court action against the Centre for its “deliberate and wilful” delay in implementing the SC collegium‘s July 11 resolution recommending appointment of Justice M S Ramachandra Rao as chief justice of the state, reported.In its petition, the Hemant Soren govt said…
NEW DELHI: The Centre and the opposition traded war of words over Waqf (Amendment) Bill at the joint committee of Parliament on Friday with the latter staging a brief walkout, PTI reported.Opposition members raised concerns about the removal of the ‘Waqf by user’ provision from the Waqf Act, arguing that this change could destabilize the…
NEW DELHI: The Central government on Monday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court defending the its 2019 law which criminalised instant triple talak.According to the affidavit, the government said that the Act helps in ensuring the larger constitutional goals of gender justice and gender equality of married Muslim women and helps their subserve their…
NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Friday criticised the Centre for not respecting the position of leader of the opposition, a day after Rahul Gandhi was not allotted a front-row seat at the Independence Day flag-hoisting ceremony at Red Fort.“The Centre did not honour the post of leader of opposition,” said…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC Tuesday directed Centre to clarify if sodomy and non-consensual unnatural sex remain offences under BNS, which came into force on July 1, 2024, replacing IPC.“Where is that provision? There is no provision at all. It is not there. There has to be something. The question is if an offence is not…
NEW DELHI: Amid opposition parties demanding enhanced central assistance for Kerala to help rebuild and rehabilitate Wayanad, govt sources said the state was already sitting on a corpus of Rs 540 crore in disaster funds — Rs 395 crore balance in its disaster response fund and Rs 145 crore released by Centre on July 31,…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday took suo moto cognisance of the deaths of three civil service aspirants due to flooding of a coaching centre basement in Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar last month. The bench, comprising Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan, issued notices to the Centre and Delhi government and sought responses from…
