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Centre returns 10 Collegium names for high courts
The names of 10 judges recommended for elevation by the Supreme Court Collegium have not received a go-ahead from the Central government. The files, returned on November 25, also include the name of senior advocate Saurabh Kirpal, the son of former Chief Justice of India BN Kirpal. Sources say...
Kejriwal alleges stone thrown at him at Surat roadshow
A scuffle broke out between supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday during Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s roadshow in Surat city in poll-bound Gujarat. The incident occurred in Katargam locality in the evening after BJP workers chanted ‘Modi, Modi’ when...
Covid lockdown protests rage in Chinese cities
Hundreds of people took to the streets in China’s major cities on Sunday to protest against the country’s zero-Covid policy, in a rare outpouring of public anger against the state. China’s hardline virus strategy is stoking public frustration, with many growing weary of snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines and mass...
Data of 500 million WhatsApp users leaked, on sale
In one of the biggest data breaches ever, phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users have been leaked and are up for sale. The database, up for sale on a popular hacking forum, contains the private information of WhatsApp users from 84 countries, according to a report by...
Cong threatens action over ‘doctored’ Rahul yatra clip
The Congress vowed to take legal action over a “doctored” video clip and threatened the BJP with “payback” after the ruling party’s top leaders shared the clip with a claim that “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans were heard during Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra that’s currently in Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh...
Notice to man for ‘scandalising’ Supreme Court judge
The Supreme Court on Friday took umbrage at a litigant calling a judge of the court a “terrorist” and directed the registry to issue him a show cause notice as to why he should not be prosecuted for criminal contempt for “scandalising” the judge. “You have to be sent...
Rishi Sunak plans curbs on foreign students
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be considering “all options”, including reducing the number of foreign students, in his bid to bring down the rising net migration in the United Kingdom, according to a report by the BBC. Sunak will be looking into imposing curbs on foreign students pursuing...
Shah promises help to historians to ‘rewrite history’
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked historians to rewrite history in the Indian context and assured them that the government will support their efforts. “I am student of history and I hear a lot of times that our history has not been presented properly and is distorted. Maybe...
Yatra prompted by closure of all democratic avenues: Rahul
Congress’s Rahul Gandhi, face of the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, launched one of his strongest attacks on the BJP till date. The venue was Madhya Pradesh, the state where the party’s government crashed in 2020 after Jyotiraditya Scindia — one of the its senior leaders and Rahul Gandhi’s closest...
Delhi minister’s massage giver a rape case convict: BJP
In a new twist to the row over viral videos of Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain getting massages in jail, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s claim that these were “physiotherapy” has been denied by official sources who say the “masseur” in the video is a prisoner in a rape case. The...
Top leaders converge to Gujarat for high-voltage campaign
Gujarat will today witness high voltage campaigning ahead of Assembly elections scheduled for next month, as all top leaders of the top three parties staking claim to power will address several rallies across the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address three back-to-back ‘Vijay Sankalp Sammelan’ rallies of his...
Mangaluru autorickshaw blast act of terror: Police
The autorickshaw blast in coastal Karnataka’s Mangaluru Saturday was not accidental but an “act of terror with the intention to cause serious damage”, the state police chief confirmed today. While confirming the news on Twitter, Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood also added that the state police is “probing deep” into it...
CJI disapproves of lawyers strike over judge’s transfer
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, who has agreed to meet lawyers of the Gujarat High Court striking over a judge’s transfer, on Saturday said that the strike makes “consumers of justice suffer”. Speaking at the felicitation function organised by the Bar Council of India (BCI), he backed...
Ex-bureaucrat Arun Goel appointed poll commissioner
Retired bureaucrat Arun Goel has been appointed as an Election Commissioner ahead of the crucial assembly election in Gujarat. The third post in the country’s top poll body has been vacant for nearly six months. A communique from the law ministry this evening read, “The President is pleased to...
Row over Maharashtra Governor’s remarks on Shivaji
Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari on Saturday said Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was an icon of “olden days” even as he referred to B R Ambedkar and Union minister Nitin Gadkari while talking about “icons” in the state, drawing criticism from NCP. Governor Koshyari made the remarks after conferring D.Litt...
BJP slams Rahul Gandhi for marching with Medha Patkar
The BJP on Friday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for marching with activist Medha Patkar on his Bharat Jodo Yatra march that is traversing the length of the country. “Congress and Rahul Gandhi have time and again shown their animosity towards Gujarat and Gujaratis. By giving Medha...
BJP leader summoned over bid to ‘buy’ Telangana MLAs
Top BJP leader BL Santhosh has been summoned by the Telangana police over his party’s alleged attempts to “buy” four MLAs from Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s TRS. National General Secretary (Organisation) of the BJP, BL Santhosh has to appear on November 21 or he will be arrested, according to...
Centre seeks review of Rajiv Gandhi killers’ release
A week after the Supreme Court ordered the release of six people who were convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, the central government on Thursday requested the court to review its decision. The Centre filed a petition in the Supreme Court asking it...
