Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi appeared before Sultanpur MP/MLA court in connection with a defamation case lodged against him for alleged objectionable remarks directed at Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday. The court on July 2 had asked Rahul Gandhi to appear on July 26.Rahul Gandhi’s counsel Kashi Prasad Shukla told…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the central government and the secretaries to the governors of West Bengal and Kerala regarding separate petitions filed by the two state governments. The petition challenges the decisions of their governors to keep several bills pending for an extended period, withhold assent, or reserve them…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday reached Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur Court in connection with a defamation case. Vijay Mishra, who was the BJP district vice president at the time of the alleged incident, had filed the defamation case against Rahul. The defamation case is against Union home minister Amit Shah…
NEW DELHI: The Kargil War officially concluded 25 years ago on July 26, 1999. Kargil Vijay Diwas, observed annually on this day, commemorates India’s victory over Pakistan and honors the sacrifices of hundreds of Indian soldiers who faced more than just the Pakistani infiltrators to secure victory in Kargil. Kargil War The conflict, which escalated…
MUMBAI: Piramal Capital Housing Finance’s MD and his wife, along with another entity, have settled a Sebi investigation over insider trading by paying about Rs 43.5 crore. According to Sebi’s order, the three entities accrued illegal gains worth nearly Rs 16 crore after buying shares of Piramal Enterprises (holding company) using unpublished price sensitive information.Of…
KOLKATA: An FIR about a May 2016 custody death was finally lodged on Wednesday on Calcutta HC‘s intervention, eight years after a Barrackpore additional chief judicial magistrate had told the deceased’s mother’s that if “even for the sake of argument we assume that the deceased died as a result of torture by police while in…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met former PM and Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Deve Gowda on Thursday evening at his residence in New Delhi. Union minister and JDS president HD Kumaraswamy was also present in the meeting. PM Modi also received an artwork from Deve Gowda related to his spiritual visit to Kanyakumari….
Magical realism is defined as what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe. There was a reason magical realism was born in Colombia. It’s fitting that the Netflix show Narcos – which focused on the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar – starts by describing a literary phenomenon…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday lambasted former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi after he accused the Union government of curbing ‘free speech’ of newly elected MP and radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh by invoking the National Security Act against him.Accusing the grand old party of siding with the Khalistanis, Union minister…
NEW DELHI: The Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday intensified its attack over the alleged MUDA scam as its MLAs staged a march from Vidhana Soudha to Raj Bhavan demanding the resignation of chief minister Siddaramaiah. BJP MLA Mahesh Tenginkai said, “Siddaramaiah is involved in this scam, in MUDA as well as Valmiki issue. So,…
