NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that harassment alone cannot justify convicting someone for abetment of suicide, citing the necessity of clear evidence demonstrating intent to incite the act.The verdict came while the court was hearing an appeal challenging the Gujarat high court’s decision to uphold charges against a woman’s husband and in-laws in…
NEW DELHI: The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Thursday announced its list of 21 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly Elections 2025. The party fielded Sandeep Dikshit, son of former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, against AAP convener and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in the New Delhi constituency.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)…
NEW DELHI: Yet another election … yet another women-centric welfare scheme. With cash-in-account schemes proving to be gamechangers for political parties in some states, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced the launch of the “Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojna” under which a monthly assistance of Rs 1,000 will be given to women in Delhi….
NEW DELHI: A special debate on the Constitution will begin in Lok Sabha on Friday at noon. Union defence minister Rajnath Singh will initiate the debate, according to media reports.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also expected to participate in the debate on December 14.After an agreement with the opposition, the BJP-led NDA government has agreed…
PALAKKAD: Four school students died after a truck hit them in Kalladikode, Palakkad district, on Thursday evening. Several other students were injured. The girls attended a nearby higher secondary school and were walking home when the accident happened.The incident occurred on the Palakkad-Kozhikode National Highway at Panayampadam near Kalladikode. A cement truck lost control, striking…
NEW DELHI: The mother-in-law and brother-in-law of Bengaluru techie Atul Subhash, who died by suicide after alleging harassment by his wife and her family, have reportedly fled their residence in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district.Nisha Singhania and her son, Anurag alias Piyush Singhania, left their home in Jaunpur’s Khowa Mandi area on a motorcycle around 1…
NEW DELHI: Farmer leader from Punjab Jagjit Singh Dallewal on Thursday wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as his fast unto death at the Khanauri border entered day 17. “I, Jagjit Singh Dallewal, an ordinary farmer of the country, writing this to you with great sadness and a heavy heart,” the letter,…
NEW DELHI: Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay on Thursday said that the religious character of a place cannot be determined through mere observation and argued for the necessity of surveys at disputed sites.Upadhyay also challenged the validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, calling it unconstitutional and claiming it legitimizes historical actions by rulers…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (File photo) NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh deputy CM Brajesh Pathak on Thursday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of trying to “incite people” and “spread anarchy” in the state after the Lok Sabha leader of the opposition visited Hathras to meet the family of a Dalit woman who died allegedly after being…
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge alleged on Thursday that Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar “always suppresses” the opposition’s freedom of expression by “persistent heckling”.Kharge, who is the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, claimed Dhankar resorted to “unwarranted insistence on authentication”. He further alleged that Dhankar repeatedly “criticised…
