NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the Congress’ “incoming government” in Haryana will end “the decade of pain” and the party has resolved to fulfill the hopes and aspirations of the people of the state. Gandhi made the remarks after the Haryana Congress rolled out its detailed […]
NEW DELHI: Lamenting the fact that a poor person does not get the same access to justice as a rich person, President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday said this ”unfair situation” must change for the better. She urged young legal professionals to be the agents of change. The President was addressing the 21st convocation of NALSAR […]
NEW DELHI: From demonising an Indian neighbourhood as “Pakistan” to expressing demographic fears over conversions, from trash-talking a woman advocate about the colour of a male colleague’s “undergarments” to forbidding widows against wearing makeup, high court judges have been dropping one clanger after another. And the Supreme Court has found itself having to clean up […]
BENGALURU: A case was registered on Saturday against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and others on the directions of a court here, following a complaint relating to the now-scrapped electoral bonds scheme. According to police, an FIR was registered under sections 384 (punishment for extortion) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) read with 34 (acts done by […]
New Delhi: There are several obvious advantages to using public Wi-Fi. Consider this – you are at a railway station and your mobile data keeps dipping to 3G, let alone offer decent 4G speeds. Connecting to the free railway station Wi-Fi immediately fixes the problem. Public Wi-Fi also comes in handy when your mobile data […]
Srinagar: General Officer Commanding (GOC) 15 Corps Lt. General Shri Rajiv Ghai, AVSM, SM, called on the Director General of Police, J&K, R.R. Swain here at Police Headquarters today. Both had a powwow to ensure that the tempo of the coordinated hard work in maintaining peace and order in the valley is not diminished. A […]
Jammu: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday launched searches at multiple places in Rajouri and Reasi districts as part of its investigation into the deadly terror attack in June on a bus carrying pilgrims who were returning from Shiv Khori temple, officials said. NIA is conducting searches at seven locations in Jammu and Kashmir, they […]
Rewari/Kurukshetra: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday promised to raise the benefit of Centre’s Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme from Rs 6,000 to Rs 10,000 a year for Haryana farmers if his party is voted back to power in the October 5 state assembly polls. The senior BJP leader also trained his guns on Congress […]
Jammu: Asserting that the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls are being held peacefully and without any violence, BJP president J P Nadda on Friday said the people of the Union Territory have rejected bullets and chosen ballots, focusing on peace and development. Addressing a press conference here, Nadda also said Kashmir’s youngsters have joined the […]
Srinagar: Highlighting north Kashmir as a battleground for the BJP’s “experimental policies”, the Congress’ Jammu and Kashmir chief Tariq Hameed Karra on Friday urged the region’s electorate to vote intelligently in the final phase of the assembly polls. Claiming that the saffron party’s “experimental policies” posed a risk of division and destabilisation, Karra emphasised the […]