JHARSUGUDA: BJD leader V K Pandian on Friday said he would quit politics if chief minister Naveen Patnaik doesn’t return to power with a three-fourth majority and dared Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan to do the same if BJP loses the elections in Odisha.“I will retire from politics if Naveen Patnaik doesn’t become the CM of…
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court has ordered taking a lower court judge back into judicial service eight years after he was sacked on various charges, including inflicting electric shocks on court staff “in order to get sadistic pleasure and to physically harass them on the court premises”. This case involved civil judge and judicial magistrate…
Former Maharashtra CM Chavan criticizes agencies for failing to find Dabholkar murder mastermind. Sanatan Sanstha’s Ghanwat accuses Chavan of promoting ‘Hindu terrorism’ theory. No action taken against the organization despite ban requests. Source link
NEW DELHI: The Congress termed the EC’s response to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge‘s letter as a “permanent blot” on the face of a body, which is there to “ensure a level-playing field to all political parties”. Demanding transparency and promptitude” from EC, an INDIA bloc delegation on Friday met the ECI and raised concerns over…
NEW DELHI: The government has finally notified the Inter-Services Organisations (Command, Control and Discipline) Act, which will also pave the way for creation of the long-pending unified theatre commands in the most radical military reorganization envisaged since Independence.The enforcement with immediate effect of the ISO Act, which received presidential assent on August 15 last year…
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday walked out of Tihar after spending 50 days in jail following the Supreme Court‘s order granting him interim bail in the excise policy case.“I have a request, we have to save the country from dictatorship. I am fighting against it with all might,” CM Kejriwal said…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal interim bail until June 1, allowing him to participate in the ongoing Lok Sabha election campaign. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said Kejriwal, arrested in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam,…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday accused Mallikarjun Kharge of creating impediments in the conduct of free and fair elections as it rejected the Congress chief‘s allegations of mismanagement and delay in release of voter turnout data. The poll body said Kharge’s allegations are unwarranted, without facts and ‘reflective of a biased and deliberate…
A Pune court on Friday found two accused guilty in the 2013 murder case of activist Narendra Dabholkar. The two were sentenced to life imprisonment. Pune special court pronounced the verdict in the Dabholkar murder trial, almost 11 years after the veteran rationalist was gunned down on August 20, 2013, by two bike-borne men on…
HYDERABAD: Khammam, which was just another Telangana parliamentary constituency, became the most prestigious seat after the state Congress leadership passed resolutions urging Sonia Gandhi, later Rahul Gandhi and finally Priyanka Gandhi to contest from here.While none of the Gandhis accepted the proposal, the seat became the most sought after in Telangana with three strong ministers…
