VADODARA: Three of six men arrested as teenagers for the 2002 Godhra train burning were sentenced Tuesday to three years in jail, 14 years after 31 others were convicted for the incident that led to Gujarat’s worst communal riots.Although the convicts are now 40, their identities and other details still can’t be disclosed, their lawyers…
AHMEDABAD: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have told party members that there should be no reservation in naming a group that is targetted, as he reiterated that Congress stands for all religions and groups.Rahul is learnt to have mentioned that a community, be it Christian, Muslim, Sikh, OBC or deprived classes, be named….
NEW DELHI: Observing that it is not the court’s function to do moral policing, Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside a Punjab and Haryana high court order directing musician Vishal Dadlani and politician Tehseen Poonawalla to pay the cost of Rs 10 lakh for their tweets mocking a Jain monk.A bench of Justices Abhay S…
NEW DELHI: Frowning upon the Tamil Nadu governor for acting in violation of constitutional provisions by sitting on bills forwarded to him after being passed by the state assembly, Supreme Court, in an extraordinary and first-of-its-kind decision, held that 10 bills reserved by the governor be deemed to have been assented by him, and fixed…
NEW DELHI: In a money laundering case against CPM-controlled Karuvannur cooperative bank in Thrissur, Kerala, ED on Tuesday interrogated CPM central committee member and Lok Sabha MP K Radhakrishnan in connection with loans of more than Rs 150 crore sanctioned by the bank to ‘customers’ on the basis of alleged bogus documents.These loans were disbursed…
BENGALURU: Bengaluru: Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara apologised Tuesday for his remark suggesting that crimes like molestation weren’t “uncommon in a big city like Bengaluru”, saying he never meant to trivialise the incident involving a woman who was stalked and groped by a stalker at Bharathi Layout early on April 3.“If my statement caused pain…
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Waqf law rocked J&K assembly for the second day Tuesday as opposition PDP and Sajad Lone’s People’s Conference brought a no-confidence motion against Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather for not allowing a debate on the act. Rather’s own party, the governing NC, urged him to show flexibility and permit the discussion.BJP, however, supported the Speaker…
Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak has said that discussions were held on 14 key proposals in the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday.Speaking to the media, Pathak emphasized the state’s commitment to swiftly implementing these initiatives, highlighting that over the past…
NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee is meeting in Ahmedabad to chalk out party’s roadmap for upcoming assembly polls and decide on slew of measures for the much-needed organisational reforms. The grand old party, which themed its Ahmedabad session as “Nyaypath: Sankalp, Samarpan aur Sangharsh”, on Tuesday asserted it’s claim to Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel’s…
BJP leader Gyandev Ahuja suspended NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday suspended former MLA Gyandev Ahuja after he “purified” a Ram temple in Alwar with Ganga water following a visit by Congress leader and Dalit MLA Tikaram Jully, reported PTI.The act has drawn sharp condemnation from across the political spectrum, with the Congress calling it…
