KOLKATA — Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday said India has the tradition of Hindus and Muslims working and living together in cohesion. Sen, a noted economist, was speaking at a programme at the Alipore Jail Museum to foster book-reading habits among underprivileged youth. “Going by the history of our country, Hindus and Muslims have […]
LUCKNOW — The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is preparing to challenge a recent Supreme Court ruling that mandates the payment of maintenance to Muslim divorcee women beyond the period of ‘Iddat’, an AIMPLB member said. The AIMPLB’s legal committee is meticulously studying the Supreme Court order to explore all legal avenues. The […]
NEW DELHI — Even as the latest suicide case of a father-son duo in Mumbai shocked us, experts on Thursday said that suicide is the largest public health crisis facing people, both young and old in India. India has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of suicides in the world. According to a […]
NEW DELHI — The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court there was neither any indication of “mass malpractice” nor a localised set of candidates being benefitted leading to abnormal scores in NEET-UG 2024. It said the data analytics of results of NEET-UG 2024 was conducted by IIT Madras and as per the findings given […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a Muslim woman can seek maintenance from her husband under section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which is applicable to all married women irrespective of religion. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih, which pronounced a separate but concurrent […]
LUCKNOW — Wife of a retired IAS officer has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by her stepson and his aide at their house in Jammu and Kashmir. The woman in her 40s also accused her husband’s family of harassing her for dowry. Following this a case was registered with the Ghazipur (Indiranagar) police on […]
LUCKNOW — The Enforcement Directorate has summoned YouTuber Siddharth Yadav alias Elvish Yadav on July 23 for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the suspected use of snake venom as a recreational drug in parties hosted by him, official sources said on Wednesday. The central agency had registered the case in May and […]
UNNAO (UP) — At least 18 people were killed and more than 30 injured when a double-decker bus rammed into a milk tanker on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district, early on Wednesday. The bus was travelling from Sitamarhi in Bihar to Delhi. It hit the milk tanker from behind near Garha village, […]
DEHRADUN — A family already grappling with the devastating loss of a Major in the Indian Army now faces another tragedy as his cousin, 26-year-old Adarsh Negi, was killed in action during a convoy attack in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. “Just two months ago, we lost a son who died serving his country. He […]
NEW DELHI — The Union Home Ministry has extended the ban imposed on pro-Khalistan group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) for five years for its anti-national activities. In a notification issued on Tuesday, the Home Ministry said the SFJ was declared a banned organisation five years ago under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for its anti-national […]