The Kolhapur bench of the Bombay High Court has discharged a couple from charges under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act after holding that the complainant, who had converted to Islam after marriage, could not invoke the law’s Scheduled Caste protections. Justice Vrushali V Joshi ruled that the...
The Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation controversy has widened into a larger test of accountability for the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, with investigators examining alleged theft and embezzlement of devotees’ offerings and senior trust functionaries coming under pressure over lapses in the handling of funds. Champat Rai, who...
Congress stepped up its confrontation with the government on Tuesday after KC Venugopal sought privilege proceedings against Defence Minister Rajnath Singh over his Parliament remarks on casualties during Operation Sindoor. Venugopal, the Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member from Alappuzha, wrote to Speaker Om Birla alleging that Singh...
The Cockroach Janta Party has moved from online satire to street mobilisation, drawing attention from students, activists and political rivals while its founder Abhijeet Dipke insists the outfit is not preparing for elections. Dipke has projected the CJP as a citizens’ platform focused on education reform, exam integrity, unemployment...
AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has demanded a nationwide “social boycott” of those accused of stealing donations from the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, escalating a politically charged row that has drawn the temple trust, Uttar Pradesh Police, local lawyers and opposition parties into a widening dispute over accountability. Kejriwal’s...
Tehran said an expert team would travel to Doha this week to discuss implementation of a memorandum of understanding signed with Washington, while rejecting US claims that direct talks between the two sides had been scheduled in Qatar. The announcement sharpened confusion over the next stage of diplomacy after...
Police in Telangana’s Nizamabad district have registered a case against a private school’s management and a teacher after parents alleged that Urdu and namaz were being taught to pupils without approval and outside the prescribed syllabus. The case, centred on a school campus at Perkit village in Armoor mandal,...
Police scrutiny of the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya has widened to the assets and financial transactions of Anukalp Mishra, a 22-year-old cash-counting staffer suspected of playing a central role in the diversion of devotees’ offerings. Investigators are examining how Mishra, who was drawing...
Rajya Sabha member Kapil Sibal sharpened the opposition attack on the BJP on Monday, using a rhyming political jibe to link the ruling party with allegations of donation theft at the Ram temple in Ayodhya and urging voters to remove it from power. The Independent MP wrote on X...
Congress has signalled a tougher opening position for future seat-sharing talks with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, with newly appointed state in-charge Rajendra Pal Gautam saying the party deserves an equal share in any INDIA bloc arrangement for the 2027 Assembly election. The remarks have sharpened early bargaining...
The Vishva Hindu Parishad has rejected Akhilesh Yadav’s pledge to develop Ayodhya as “Siyaram Dham” if the Samajwadi Party returns to power, opening a sharper political confrontation over the temple town amid a widening inquiry into alleged irregularities in Ram temple donations. VHP international president Alok Kumar said on...
Mumbai Police have arrested a 39-year-old Pune resident accused of distributing capsules laced with rodenticide during a Muharram procession in Byculla, after several participants reported illness and investigators recovered thousands of suspected toxic pills. The accused, identified as Fayyaz Premji, allegedly told investigators that he wanted to kill at...
Ayodhya police searched the homes of eight accused in the Ram Temple donation fund theft case on Sunday, widening a probe that has put temple finances, trust oversight and local legal representation under sharp scrutiny. The accused, all in judicial custody, are due to be produced before a local...
Rahul Gandhi has asked Congress functionaries to turn the “Chhatron Ki Goonj” campaign of the Indian Youth Congress and the NSUI into a countrywide movement, sharpening the party’s push on examination failures, paper leaks, rising education costs and youth unemployment. The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha wrote...
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray has accused the BJP of using the defection of six Lok Sabha MPs from his party to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena as a manoeuvre not only against his faction but also to limit Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’s room for political expansion. Thackeray,...
Mumbai police have arrested a 39-year-old Pune resident after he was allegedly caught distributing poison-laced capsules to participants in a Muharram procession in Byculla, triggering a wider investigation into whether the act was planned as a mass poisoning attempt. The accused, identified as Faiyaz Nisar Hussain Premji, was detained...
New Delhi, Saturday — The Bharatiya Janata Party accused the Congress of using the Gaza war to pursue domestic electoral politics after Sonia Gandhi criticised the Centre’s handling of Israel, Palestine and the direction of India’s foreign policy. The exchange followed an article by the Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson...
Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Jyoti Waghmare has moved the National Commission for Women against Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, accusing him of using abusive language, obscene expressions and public insults against women representatives. The complaint, sent to the commission’s office in New Delhi, seeks intervention against Raut and...