Mumbai: Jesuit priest Stan Swamy died on Monday while waiting for interim bail on medical grounds. Dr Ian D’souza, director of the Mumbai-based Holy Family Hospital, the private facility where Swamy was undergoing treatment, and the tribal rights activist’s lawyer Mihir Desai informed a bench of the Bombay High Court of his death following cardiac […]
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday expressed shock over the death of 84-year-old tribal activist Stan Swamy, saying a “ruthless and callous government deprived him of dignity and has blood on its hands. “Deeply disturbed by the passing away of 84 year old tribal activist Stan Swamy. A ruthless & callous government that deprived […]
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi expressed condolences on Monday over the death of Father Stan Swamy and said he deserved justice and humaneness. “Heartfelt condolences on the passing of Father Stan Swamy. He deserved justice and humaneness,” he wrote on Twitter. Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, died […]
Srinagar: The process of recruitment for two women battalions in Jammu and Kashmir has started with the police announcing their test timetable on Monday. The Chairman of Police Recruitment Board announced the schedule for conducting the physical standard and endurance tests of the candidates belonging to the Jammu division and the union territory of Ladakh, […]
New Delhi: Two men were arrested from central Delhi in connection with stealing cars here and selling them in Kashmir, police said on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Showket Ahmad Malla (25), a resident of Baramulla district in Jammu ad Kashmir, and Mohammad Juber (22), a resident of Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh. […]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to hear student activist Gulfisha Fatima’s plea against her alleged illegal detention in a Delhi riots case after it took a strong exception to her advocate Mehmood Pracha’s taking recourse to heckling and placing reliance on facts that were not on record. A bench of Justice […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Monday said it is “amazing” and “shocking” that people are still being booked under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act that was scrapped by the apex court verdict in 2015. Under the scrapped section a person posting offensive messages could be imprisoned for up to three years as also […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday asserted that the government has no option but to order a JPC probe into the allegations of corruption in the purchase of Rafale fighter jets and questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence even 48 hours after an investigation in France was ordered into the deal. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi […]
New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 39,796 new Covid infections, which took the tally of cases to 3,05,85,229, while the death toll climbed to 4,02,728 with 723 more fatalities, the lowest in 88 days, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The active cases have further declined to 4,82,071 and comprise […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court said on Monday that it has to take a “strict” view of unruly behaviour of lawmakers in Parliament and Legislative Assemblies as such incidents are “increasing nowadays” and this sort of conduct cannot be condoned. The apex court, which was hearing pleas relating to a criminal case lodged in connection […]