NEW DELHI: Having fulfilled its objective to scrap the special status of J&K by rendering the controversial Article 370 defunct, the Modi government appears to have moved on to project the state as being one of the sources of India’s spiritual and cultural tradition as part of the larger Bharatiya culture.As part of the endeavour,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday asked Uttar Pradesh government to engage forensic experts to reconstruct a 40-year-old illegible FIR in a Kanpur anti-Sikh riot case and asked the state legal services authority to provide leading criminal lawyers to complainants and victims’ kin to oppose closure reports in nine such cases. It said professional fees of…
NEW DELHI: Taking note of Enforcement Directorate’s “high handedness” and “inhuman conduct” in interrogating a person for almost 15 hours which went beyond midnight, Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up ED and expressed concern over the agency’s approach in conducting probe.A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih said the agency was…
NEW DELHI: In a miraculous incident, a speed breaker turned life-saver for a ‘dead’ 65-year-old man, a resident of Kasaba-Bawada in western Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district. The incident unfolded on December 16, when an ambulance was carrying the body of Pandurang Ulpe, from the hospital to his home where his family members and relatives gathered to…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Thursday took a swipe AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of “duplicity” and shedding “crocodile tears” for farmers despite being the first chief minister to notify the contentious farm laws in the year 2020.Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav further alleged that the Congress party’s strong support extended to the farmers compelled…
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday launched an attack at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), claiming that its chief Arvind Kejriwal fostered a “love for bogus voters”. The party further alleged that some AAP leaders and their family members have dual voter registrations.At a press conference, Delhi BJP…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that Article 370 had “sown the seeds of separatism in the valley”, which ultimately evolved into terrorism. Praising the Modi government’s “strong resolution” that led to the abrogation of the article, Shah described the decision as the catalyst for establishing a “Naya Kashmir“.Speaking at the…
NEW DELHI: The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday demanding to name Delhi University‘s Veer Savarkar College college after former PM Dr Manmohan Singh instead. Singh passed away on December 26 at age 92 at AIIMS, New Delhi.“You are set to inaugurate a college named…
‘Rolling out red carpet’: Giriraj Singh accuses Mamata govt of turning West Bengal into ‘nursery for Bangladeshi infiltrators’ (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Union minister Giriraj Singh criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, accusing her government of turning the state into a “nursery” for Bangladeshi infiltrators. Singh alleged that the state administration…
NEW DELHI: Ministry of home affairs on Thursday amended Model Prison Manual, 210 and the Model Prisons and Correctional Services Act, 2023 to address caste-based discrimination within prisons across the country.The MHA also replaced the existing definition of “habitual offender” to ensure that there is no discrimination of prisoners on the basis of their caste.“The…
