HYDERABAD: After neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, Telangana govt is also set to junk the two-child norm for candidates of rural local body polls, reports Roushan Ali. A bill to amend the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, 2018, to do away with the bar will be tabled in the forthcoming winter session of the assembly.Recently, the Andhra assembly…
NEW DELHI: Ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Friday described as “unfortunate” Congress member Rahul Gandhi’s recent snide remarks against US President Joe Biden and PM Narendra Modi, saying these were “not in keeping with India’s friendly ties with the US”.While addressing an election rally in Maharashtra, Gandhi had said that Modi seemed to be…
NEW DELHI: Dialling up pressure on Bangladesh, govt on Friday said the interim govt in Dhaka must live up to its responsibility of protecting all minorities, instead of dismissing recent incidents of violence against Hindus and other minority communities as ‘media exaggeration’.Responding to written questions in Lok Sabha about violence against Hindus in Bangladesh, external…
NAGPUR: Bombay high court‘s Nagpur bench recently ruled that sexual intercourse with a wife under 18 years of age, even if consensual, constitutes rape.The HC upheld the trial court’s order sentencing the convict 10 years of rigorous imprisonment, reinforcing Supreme Court’s precedent in Independent Thought versus Union of India. Delivering the verdict, Justice Govinda Sanap…
NEW DELHI: Rasik Chandra Mandal was born in a nondescript village of Malda district in 1920, the year Indian National Congress launched a non-cooperation movement against the British. More than a century later, he is pleading with the Supreme Court as a lifer for his freedom, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. Convicted in 1994 in a 1988…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday said courts had no business to get into determination of speed limits on roads, national highways and expressways, which are to be fixed by experts and notified by govt. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan set aside a Madras high court single judge’s order quashing the increased…
TMC neta Kuntal Ghosh gets bail in teachers jobs scam NEW DELHI: Ordering the release of TMC youth wing functionary Kuntal Ghosh on bail in the primary teacher recruitment scam, Supreme Court on Friday imposed a novel bail condition – he will be barred from holding any public post. A bench of Justices Surya Kant…
MUMBAI/SAMBHAJINAGAR: The Maharashtra govt on Friday withdrew its order granting Rs 10 crore for functioning and strengthening of the Maharashtra State Board of Waqf, with Devendra Fadnavis intervening and pledging a probe into the order’s legality and timing once the new govt was formed. State CS Sujata Saunik withdrew the order, report Clara Lewis &…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday said it was of the prima facie view that the Shahi Masjid Idgah management committee should have appealed the order of a single judge of Allahabad HC before a division bench of the HC, instead of moving the SC directly, to question maintainability of Hindu side suits claiming the…
Just days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge sought a return to ballot papers. NEW DELHI: Alleging that the Maharashtra elections were compromised, Congress Friday told EC there was an “inexplicable” rise in turnout in the last hour that added 76 lakh votes, and the governing BJP alliance manipulated the voters list resulting in an “inexplicable”…
