NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday spoke to the father of a teacher brutally murdered along with his wife and two daughters in Uttar Pradesh. Amethi MP Kishori Lal Sharma, facilitated the call and said that he has been in contact with the grieving family since the tragic incident.“I…
NEW DELHI: Former Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal vacated the 6 Flagstaff Road residence and relocated to his new address, Bungalow No. 5 on Feroz Shah Road, near Mandi House in Delhi’s Lutyens’ Zone on Friday.The AAP supremo’s family headed towards the official residence of party member Ashok Mittal…
KANPUR: A deception game with eerie echoes of the UP-set ‘Bunty Aur Babli’ has unspooled in Kanpur, where a pair allegedly bilked Rs 35 crore from over two dozen couples with promises of an “Israel-made time machine to turn them into 25-year-olds”.Rajeev Dubey and wife Rashmi lured clients with the elixir of “oxygen therapy” once…
CHANDIGARH: Dalit politician Ashok Tanwar’s return to Congress on Thursday is being seen by political analysts as unlikely to benefit the party. However, the timing of his switch, on the same day BJP ran advertisements accusing Congress of being anti-Dalit, has become a talking point.Just hours before his re-entry into Congress, Tanwar had campaigned for…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday convicted former MLA and RJD functionary Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla and Mantu Tiwari for the 1998 murder of former Bihar minister Brij Bihari Prasad and awarded them life imprisonment. The court, however, granted benefit of doubt to five other accused including former MP Suraj Bhan Singh, acquitting them…
NEW DELHI: Opposing criminalisation of marital rape, the Centre on Thursday told Supreme Court that a husband and wife share a unique multifaceted relationship which is not exclusively centred on sex and stressed if Parliament has thoughtfully carved out an exception for marital rape in the penal provisions (in Sec 375 of IPC), it should…
Under attack for her comments on the divorce of actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya, forest minister Konda Surekha on Thursday withdrew her remarks that triggered strong reactions from political leaders and the Telugu cinema with actor Akkineni Nagarjuna suing her for defamation. The minister said her intention was to only highlight how BRS…
On Sept 18, a small village in Chhattisgarh‘s Sakti woke up to find that a ‘SBI’ branch had sprung up overnight. It sported the logo, and cashiers and a manager who looked busy and business-like. Chhapora village felt like it had arrived.The trusting villagers had no way of knowing it was an elaborate fraud. Even…
Families of the two hostages at Imphal police station for their handover GUWAHATI: Two Meitei men held hostage by tribal Kuki village volunteers in Manipur‘s Kangpokpi for five days were freed Thursday in a purported exchange involving “safe passage” till their native district for 11 undertrial Kuki prisoners, all of whom got bail a couple…
BENGALURU/NEW DELHI: Karnataka health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao‘s remarks on Hindutva ideologue and freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, claiming that Savarkar consumed meat and was not opposed to cow slaughter have sparked outrage across political circles. The controversy erupted on Thursday, a day after Rao’s comments during the launch of the Kannada version of ‘Gandhi’s…
