Representative image (AI-generated) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the Centre’s move to remove the concept of “waqf by user” from the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025, warning that such a change in the legislation could potentially erase the status of thousands of longstanding religious properties across India. However, the Centre opposed the court’s…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine whether a Muslim can opt out of being governed by Sharaiat and instead choose Indian succession law to deal with ancestral properties without renouncing their faith.a bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna and justice Sanjay Khanna issued notices to Centre and the Kerala government and asked them…
NEW DELHI: A man has alleged that doctors at Kota Medical College in Rajasthan mistakenly operated on his paralysed father instead of him, following an accident.The patient, Manish, was brought to the hospital after sustaining injuries in an accident. Scheduled for surgery on Saturday, he called his paralysed father for support.According to Manish, he was…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday likened himself to the “pilot” of the state’s development journey, with Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar as his “co-pilots” during the previous Mahayuti government.Shinde made the remarks while inaugurating an airport and commercial passenger flight service in Amravati, eastern Maharashtra, in the presence of chief…
NEW DELHI: All India Muslim Jamat on Wednesday issued a fatwa against actor and Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam president Vijay and asked the Muslims not to stand with him.AIMJ president Maulana Mufti Shahabuddin Razvi Barelvi said that the fatwa was issued because Vijay negatively portrayed the Muslims and invited gamblers and liquor consumers to his iftar…
PM Modi and Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin (R) NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, outlining concern over the sudden cancellation of the Private Haj quota and urging PM to “take up the matter with Saudi Arabia immediately” to resolve the issue.In…
NEW DELHI: At a time when language has become politicised, with incidents of people being attacked in several states for not speaking the local language, Supreme Court has said India’s linguistic diversity should be celebrated and it should not cause divisions. It said language was not related to any religion and Urdu was as much…
NEW DELHI: Dismissing Congress‘s charge of vendetta after Enforcement Directorate (ED) chargesheeted Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case, BJP on Wednesday said no one had the “licence to loot”.Senior party functionary Ravi Shankar Prasad said the law would take its own course under the Modi govt and probe agencies would not…
AICC leaders Abhishek Singhvi and Jairam Ramesh NEW DELHI: Calling ED’s National Herald case a “political hit job scripted by BJP”, Congress Wednesday said there is not a whiff of a crime of any sort as Young India is a not-for-profit company, with no money or property transfer. It said the case is a ploy…
KOCHI: Kerala HC issued Wednesday notices to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his daughter T Veena, and others in a PIL seeking a CBI inquiry into alleged financial dealings between Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd and Veena’s firm Exalogic Solutions Pvt Ltd. The next hearing is scheduled for May 27. Before admitting the petition, the HC…
