NEW DELHI — A Delhi-based lawyer has filed a complaint with Delhi Police and asked that an FIR be registered against former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti over her recent comment on the Aryan Khan case. She had said that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son was being targeted due to his surname […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday slammed the government at the center and its investigating agencies in regards to the arrest of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s 23-year-old son Aryan Khan. According to her, instead of making an example out of the Union Minister’s son accused of killing four farmers, central agencies are […]
LUCKNOW — Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday launched a scathing attack against the BJP in PM Narendra Modi’s constituency Varanasi, saying only the ruling party leaders and their “billionaire friends” are safe in the country. Vadra said this during a “Kisan Nyay Rally”, days after eight people, including four farmers, were killed […]
NEW DELHI — Days after being dropped from the BJP’s national executive, the top decision-making body of the party, Varun Gandhi has said that an attempt is being made to turn the violence in the Lakhimpur Kheri district into a “Hindu vs Sikh battle”. In a tweet Sunday, Gandhi said, “An attempt to turn #LakhimpurKheri […]
NEW DELHI — Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday demanded the Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra be sacked and sent to jail. Tikait added that a free and fair investigation in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case is not possible while Ajay Mishra, whose son Ashish Mishra is the prime […]
Lakhimpur Kheri (UP) — Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra on Saturday appeared before the special investigation team (SIT) formed in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. Police officials here at the spot refused to comment on the ongoing interrogation. Ashish Mishra was supposed to appear before police on Friday, but he did […]
Lakhimpur (UP) — On Friday Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that no one will be arrested without any proofs in Lakhimpur-Kheri incidence. No arrests would be made under pressure. He brushed aside the demand for the arrest of Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son. Speaking on a conclave organized by a private channel Yogi said that opposition […]
NEW DELHI — Expressing displeasure over a tweet posted by Times Now which falsely claimed that the Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana had met the kin of victims of the Lakhmipur Kheri violence, the Supreme Court on Friday said it respects the media and their independence but this is “not at all fair”. […]
NEW DELHI — Supreme Court (SC) on Friday said that they are unhappy with the probe over the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. Chief Justice of India, N V Ramana, further said that they want to see more responsible government. SC said that they are not satisfied with state’s action and the questioned the conduct of police, […]
NEW DELHI — On Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party dropped its MPs Varun Gandhi and his mother Maneka Gandhi from the party’s national executive committee, Scroll reported. Varun Gandhi had criticised the killing in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district where eight people, four of them farmers, were killed during a protest against the Centre’s contentious […]