NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year. Addressing the nation on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, the prime minister said the three laws were for the benefit […]
LUCKNOW — A barefoot Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra undertook a five-kilometre ‘maun parikrama’ (going around silently) of the famous Kamadgiri Temple in the border town of Chitrakoot, and party leaders accompanied her chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Had it not been for the Congress flags, a casual onlooker could very well have taken it […]
NEW DELHI — The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested three people from Delhi for their alleged role in online child sexual abuse and exploitation, officials told India Today. India Today has learnt that at least a dozen other suspects have been detained by the CBI, out of which few of them will be […]
NEW DELHI — Congress MP Manish Tewari on Wednesday targeted Rahul Gandhi and said the party leaders should not indulge in Hindutva debate, ‘which is miles away from the core ideology of the Congress’. Speaking to IANS on Phone, Tewari said, “Congress philosophically should not indulge in this debate which is miles away from its […]
NEW DELHI — Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed its dissatisfaction with the content of debates on television, on court connected matters, and said that TV debates are causing more air pollution than anything else. At the beginning of the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana, that […]
MUMBAI — Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s Nainital home was vandalised and set on fire today, days after his new book on Ayodhya sparked a controversy by comparing a “robust version” of Hindutva to the jihadist Islam of terror groups such as the ISIS and Boko Haram in his book. Khurshid shared the visuals on Facebook […]
NEW DELHI — The Centre on Monday extended for five years the ban imposed on the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), headed by India-born preacher Zakir Naik, currently based in Malaysia. The IRF was first declared an unlawful organisation under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967) by the central government on November 17, […]
NARAYANPUR — A Naxal commander was killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Monday, a senior police official said. The gunfight took place at around 11.30 am in the forest of Bahker under Chhotedongar police station limits when a team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an […]
AGARTALA — Two women journalists, who were arrested over their social media posts on the recent communal incidents in Tripura, were Monday ordered to be released on bail by a magistrate’s court. Samriddhi Sakunia and Swarna Jha, journalists with HW News Network, were named in an FIR at Fatikroy Police Station in Tripura on Sunday […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to call an emergency meeting on Tuesday to take measures like stopping non-essential construction transport, power plants and implementing work from home. A bench, headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana, directed the concerned secretaries of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab and Delhi to […]