NEW DELHI: Delhi court on Friday convicted Medha Patkar leader of Narmada Bachao Andolan leader in defamation case filed by Delhi LG VK Saxena. The verdict was delivered by Metropolitan Magistrate Raghav Sharma.According to the provisions of the law, Patkar could face a prison sentence of up to two years, a monetary fine, or both…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday refuted the allegations of shielding Janata Dal Secular MP Prajwal Revanna and revealed that the ministry of external affairs received a request to impound the passport of Revanna from the Karnataka government only on May 21.“To impound a passport is governed by an act called the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain plea by an NGO to direct the Election Commission to upload voter turnout data for each polling station on its website during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The vacation bench, comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma, stated that it would be challenging for…
After five rounds of polling, an analysis of turnout shows that of the 409 seats where data can be compared with 2019, nearly two-thirds, or 258, have witnessed a lower percentage turnout this year and 88 (more than one in five) have seen even the absolute number of votes drop from five years ago.Seats with…
NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal waited with his parents at his official Civil Lines residence for Delhi Police to arrive for questioning them in the Swati Maliwal assault case. However, the cops did not visit the house on Thursday.Around noon, Kejriwal released a video message saying, “I am waiting for police with my parents…
NEW DELHI: Campaigning ended Thursday for the penultimate phase of Lok Sabha elections in 58 constituencies across six states and two UTs, including all seven seats in Delhi, amid severe heatwave conditions sweeping across northern India.Delhi is likely to experience record-high temperatures of up to 46 degrees celsius during Saturday’s polling, according to forecasts.In addition…
PRAYAGRAJ: Quashing an FIR lodged by a chief judicial magistrate at UP‘s Banda against officials of the state electricity dept, Allahabad HC Tuesday said the act was “unbecoming of a judge”, reported.A bench of justices Rahul Chaturvedi and Mohd Azhar Husain Idrisi noted that the Banda CJM had levelled “wild and tailored” allegations of fraud,…
PUNE: The grandfather of the 17-year-old involved in the fatal Porsche Taycan crash in Pune around 2.30am on Sunday recorded his statement with the city crime branch on Thursday, claiming he handed over the more than Rs 2 crore electric luxury sedan’s keys to his grandson after consulting his son, the boy’s father – a…
JALANDHAR: One of former Punjab CM Beant Singh’s convicted assassins, Jagtar Singh Tara, was acquitted Thursday of waging war against the state in a 12-year-old case filed under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Arms Act.Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee member Kulbir Singh Barapind and two others had been acquitted in that case in 2014.The court…
NANDIGRAM: A BJP worker’s mother looking for her son after being woken up by the noise of fighting was fatally struck on the head by a suspected Trinamool supporter late Wednesday in Nandigram, plunging this volatile East Midnapore pocket back into the cauldron of political violence two days before it votes in the penultimate phase…
