New Delhi: The Congress and the government engaged Tuesday in a war of words in Lok Sabha over sedition cases. The Opposition party alleged the stringent law is being misused. The Congress statement drew a sharp retort from Union Minister G Kishan Reddy who asked...
New Delhi: More than 30 lakh people were inoculated against COVID-19 March 15. It was the highest number of COVID-19 vaccination in a day so far. It took the total number of vaccine doses administered in India to 3,29,47,432, the Union Health Ministry said Tuesday. The COVID-19...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court fixed Tuesday for hearing April 13 the plea of Zakia Jafri, wife of slain MP Ehsan Jafri. In the plea Zakia Jafri has challenged the SIT’s clean chit to then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots. The...
New Delhi: A Delhi court Monday awarded death penalty to Ariz Khan for the murder of decorated Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma. The verdict came in connection with the sensational 2008 Batla House encounter case. The court said the offence fell under the ‘rarest...
New Delhi: A bill to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, which seeks to increase the role of district magistrates and additional district magistrates, was introduced in the Lok Sabha Monday. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor opposed the bill at the...
New Delhi: A court here Monday directed the Delhi Police to give copies of charge sheet to former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and 9 others in a 2016 sedition case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Pankaj Sharma put up the matter...
New Delhi: In a major action against the Islamic State (IS) modules, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Monday carried out searches at seven locations across the country, including one in Delhi. An NIA source said that the multiple agency sleuths are carrying out searches at...
Ahmedabad: Debutant Ishan Kishan’s (56, 32b, 5x4, 4x6) fearless half century and skipper Virat Kohli’s (73 n o, 49b, 5x4, 3x6) perfectly paced knock set up a series-levelling seven wicket win for India in the second T20 International against England here Sunday. Jharkhand lad Kishan...
New Delhi: The BJP Sunday named several Union Ministers, MPs and actors as its candidates in the West Bengal Assembly polls. For the high octane polls, the party has fielded Union Minister Supriyo Babul from Tollygunge, actor-turned-politician and Lok Sabha member Locket Chatterjee from Churchura,...
Kolkata: Four days after she was injured and hospitalised during election campaign in Nandigram, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee attended Sunday her first public event. It was indeed an inspiring sight for the TMC supporters as Mamata Banerjee led a road show here on...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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