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SC notice on challenge to Bilkis Bano convicts’ release
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice on the petition challenging the order of Gujarat Government allowing premature release of 11 convicts sentenced to life in the Bilkis Bano case for gangrape and murder. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice Vikram...
Violent Hyderabad protests over BJP MLA’s Prophet remarks
A huge crowd of protesters gathered in Hyderabad late Wednesday night demanding action against T Raja Singh, the suspended BJP MLA out on bail after being arrested for his alleged derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad. Police used a lathi-charge to contain protesters who raised religious slogans, burnt effigies and...
US sees India as indispensable partner: White House
The United States sees India as an indispensable partner, the White House asserted Wednesday even as the two countries are pursuing their own national interests in Ukraine. “We see … the (Indian) partners as indispensable partners. And the US-India Strategic Partnership is grounded in our shared commitment to the...
Supreme Court to review money laundering Act verdict
The stringent law against money laundering, which received a thumbs up from the Supreme Court recently, will be up for review again, with the top court agreeing to hear a petition that has challenged the judgment. The hearing will be held tomorrow. In a judgment last month, the court...
Nitish Kumar wins majority test, BJP walks out
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s new Grand Alliance government won the trust vote in the assembly today. The BJP walked out in protest during his address ahead of the voting. In the voting that followed after the BJP walkout, Kumar got all 160 votes. With 164 MLAs supporting Nitish...
Gehlot denies Sonia offered him party chief post
Ashok Gehlot, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, today denied that Sonia Gandhi had offered him the chief’s post. “I’m hearing this from the media. I don’t know about this. I’m fulfilling duties that have been assigned to me,” Gehlot told reporters in Gujarat. A report in The Hindu said...
Fadnavis slams felicitation of Bilkis Bano convicts
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, the BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, has strongly criticised the grand welcome given to the 11 men convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano after their release from jail. The men were released on Independence Day by the Gujarat government under an old remission policy. Videos of...
Twitter India forced to hire govt agent, claims ex-staffer
A former Twitter Inc security chief has alleged that the Indian government forced the social media firm to put a government agent on the payroll, according to a whistleblower disclosure with US regulators. Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko raised the issue with the US Securities and Exchange Commission among other security lapse claims...
Supreme Court raps DMK over freebies justification
The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down on the DMK for some of its statements on the issue of freebies, saying the judiciary is “responsible” and the “wisdom does not belong to a particular party or a particular person”. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana, during...
Top Delhi bureaucrats suspended over liquor policy
Two senior bureaucrats were suspended on Monday by the Union Home Ministry amid a widening probe and an all-out BJP vs AAP political battle over Delhi’s now-overturned liquor sales policy that has also ensnared Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. The then Excise Commissioner Arava Gopi Krishna and Deputy Commissioner...
Ex-Punjab minister Ashu arrested on corruption charges
Former Punjab minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu has been arrested by the vigilance bureau after allegations of corruption against him. Bharat Bhushan Ashu, the former food and civil supplies minister, is at the centre of allegations in a transport scam in which tenders were allocated allegedly on fake registration numbers...
Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia in poll-bound Gujarat today
Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal will embark on a two-day visit to poll-bound Gujarat from today. Kejriwal will be accompanied by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who is facing a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe in connection with the AAP...
Shah accuses KCR govt of drowning Telangana in debt
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday evening met popular actor Jr NTR in Hyderabad. Shah, who is on an official visit to Telangana, termed the RRR star as “the gem of Telugu cinema” and a “very talented actor”. “Had a good interaction with a very talented actor and...
Zomato withdraws Hrithik Roshan ad amid backlash
Issuing a clarification amid controversy over a Hrithik Roshan-starrer advertisement, food delivery company Zomato said that the company will be withdrawing the ad. “We offer our sincerest apologies, for the intent here was never to hurt anyone’s beliefs and sentiments,” the company said. The statement came after priests of...
Delhi Lt Governor transfers 12 officers after Sisodia raid
In a bureaucratic reshuffle, a dozen IAS officers were shifted between departments on Friday, hours after a CBI raid at Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence in connection with the Delhi excise policy. According to a transfer posting order issued by the services department of the Delhi government, those...
Bhutan faces Lanka-type crisis as forex reserves plummet
Bhutan will ban the import of all vehicles except utility vehicles, heavy earthmoving machines and agriculture machinery to save dwindling foreign exchange reserves, the government said in a notice seen by Reuters on Friday. Nestled between China and India, the country of fewer than 800,000 people is grappling with...
Kejriwal praises Sisodia after CBI raids against minister
Reacting to CBI raids on his deputy Manish Sisodia over Delhi government’s now-withdrawn policy on liquor sales, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the action is “welcome” and they “will cooperate fully”, but expressed confidence that “nothing will come out”. The raids at 20 locations, including Sisodia’s official residence,...
Bilkis Bano’s rapists ‘Brahmins with good sanskar’: BJP leader
The 11 men convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano and released by the Gujarat government after 15-odd years in jail, are “Brahmins” and have “good sanskaar“, the BJP’s sitting MLA from Godhra has said. Amid the countrywide outrage over the men’s release, CK Raulji has backed the men,...
