Courts should ensure that trials are taken up and concluded speedily: SC
New Delhi: Jails are overcrowded and their living conditions appalling and the courts should ensure that trials, especially in cases where special laws enact stringent provisions, are taken up and concluded speedily, the Supreme Court has said. The top court said if the trials are not concluded in time, the injustice wrecked on the individual […]
Stampede at food distribution centre kills 11 in Pakistan’s Karachi city
Karachi: At least 11 people, including women and children, were killed and several others injured in a deadly stampede at a Ramzan food distribution centre in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Friday, officials said. The stampede took place after some people unknowingly stepped on a live wire where food was being distributed, leading to […]
India’s New Education Policy based on teachings of visionaries like Mahatma Gandhi: Amit Shah
Haridwar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday hailed the central government’s New Education Policy for its emphasis on learning in mother tongue and universal education based on the teachings of Indian visionaries such as Mahatma Gandhi and Dayanand Saraswati. Addressing the 113th convocation of the Gurukula Kangri here, Shah credited the university (deemed to […]
Modi remark row: Former IPL boss Lalit Modi threatens to take Rahul Gandhi to court in UK
London: Former IPL chief Lalit Modi, accused of financial irregularities in India, launched a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and threatened to take the senior Congress leader to court in the UK over his ‘Modi surname’ remark. Lalit Modi, 59, also hit out at the Congress party for referring to him as a […]
Single-day rise of 2,151 fresh COVID-19 cases in India
New Delhi: India recorded a single-day rise of 2,151 new coronavirus cases, the highest in five months, while the active cases increased to 11,903, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday. A total of 2,208 cases were recorded on October 28 last year. The COVID-19 death toll has increased to 5,30,848 with […]
Disqualified as MP, Rahul Gandhi asked to vacate official bungalow by April 22
New Delhi: Disqualified Lok Sabha member Rahul Gandhi was on Monday asked to vacate the government bungalow allotted to him by April 22, official sources said on Monday. The Housing Committee of the Lok Sabha took the decision following which the secretariat of the House served the notice on the former Congress president, a Z-plus […]
Amit Shah defends K’taka govt’s decision to scrap 4% reservation for Muslims, says quota based on religion not valid constitutionally
Bengaluru/Bidar: In a bid to woo Lingayats and Vokkaligas, the two powerful dominant communities of Karnataka ahead of the assembly elections which are due in May, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday unveiled the statues of 12th century social reformer and Lingayat sect founder Lord Basaveshwara and Bengaluru founder Kempe Gowda at Vidhana Soudha, […]
BJP will win more than 200 seats in MP Assembly polls, says Nadda
Bhopal: Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda on Sunday said his party would win more than 200 out of 230 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh, where elections are set to be held at the end of this year. Nadda later performed a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of a new BJP office in the state […]
PM Modi lauds ISRO’s LVM3 injecting 36 satellites into intended orbits
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded the successful placement of 36 internet satellites of a company belonging to the UK-based OneWeb Group into the intended orbits by the ISRO’s heaviest rocket, LVM3. “It reinforces India’s leading role as a global commercial launch service provider in the true spirit of Aatmanirbharta,” Modi said […]
Ukraine demands emergency UN meeting over Putin nuclear plan
Kyiv: Ukraine’s government on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to “counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail” after Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus. One Ukrainian official said Russia “took Belarus as a nuclear hostage.” Further heightening tensions, an explosion deep inside Russia wounded […]
