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Mamata fined Rs 5 lakh for doubting court’s impartiality
The Calcutta high court on Wednesday imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for seeking recusal of Justice Kaushik Chanda from her Nandigram election petition over the judge’s alleged links with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The application of the Trinamool Congress...
Outpouring of tributes to legend Dilip Kumar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a nationwide outpouring of tributes this morning as India mourned the loss of one of the most legendary Bollywood actors – Dilip Kumar. He was 98. The Bollywood veteran died at Mumbai’s Hinduja Hospital this morning after a prolonged illness. His iconic movies, including...
Upper House to help Mamata remain CM without polls
Bengal will soon have an upper house — the Legislative Council — a resolution for which was passed by the state assembly on Tuesday amid BJP opposition. Of the 265 MLAs present in the House, 196 voted for a Vidhan Parishad, which the opposition claimed has no legal status...
Kumaramangalam’s wife found murdered at Delhi home
Kitty Kumaramangalam had served as a Supreme Court lawyer. (Representational photo) New Delhi: Former Union Minister P.R. Kumaramangalam’s wife was murdered last night at her Delhi home, police said. Kitty Kumaramangalam, 67, was found dead at her house in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar. She was suffocated to death with...
Modi’s new Cabinet to be ‘youngest’ ever
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet will be the youngest ever in India’s history after big changes likely anytime now, top government sources have told NDTV. The average age will be the lowest ever and the educational qualification will also be higher, with “PhDs, MBAs, post-graduates and professionals”, the sources...
New Ministry Of Cooperation created ahead of reshuffle
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government today created new ‘Ministry of Cooperation’, looking to provide more heft to the cooperative movement in the country. The move came a day before the Union cabinet was scheduled for a reshuffle, with some new faces expected to join the Centre in key positions....
Germany lifts ban on travellers from India, UK, Portugal
Germany’s health agency said on Monday five so-called virus variant countries would be reclassified as “high incidence areas”, lifting a ban on entry for travellers from those nations who were not German residents or citizens. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said India, Nepal, Russia, Portugal and Britain would be...
An intercontinental effort to bring ailing student home
New Delhi: In a rare humanitarian gesture, authorities in India and Australia came together to help repatriate a 25-year-old Arshdeep Singh, suffering from a chronic renal ailment, to India. He was airlifted from Melbourne in a special flight that is being flown by Qantas – Australia’s largest airline by...
Stan Swamy dies of cardiac arrest
IPA Webdesk Jailed Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist Stan Swamy died of a cardiac arrest in a Mumbai hospital. He was 84. The oldest person to be accused of terrorism, he was arrested in October 2020. Stan Swamy was suffering from Parkinson’s disease and was moved to the...
SC shocked at use of banned law to arrest online activists
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed shock and displeasure on being told that over 1,000 cases had been filed under Section 66A of the IT Act – a controversial law that allowed police to arrest people for posting “offensive” content online – since it was struck down seven years...
