New Delhi: The AFSPA has been removed completely from Meghalaya and its area of operation in Arunachal Pradesh has been restricted to three police stations bordering Assam and three districts neighbouring Myanmar, officials said on Monday. The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act,which empowers security forces to conduct operations, arrest anyone anywhere without prior notice, has […]
New Delhi: The Delhi high court asked the government of India on Monday if it had done any research or scientific assessment before coming out with an ordinance to award death penalty for rape of girls below the age of 12. The high court was dealing with an old PIL that challenged the Criminal Law […]
New Delhi: Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi, BJP president Amit Shah said on Monday the ‘Save the Constitution’ campaign launched by the Congress chief is an exercise to save the dynasty and that the opposition party’s “Modi hatred” has turned into “India hatred”. In a statement soon after Gandhi launched a scathing attack on Prime […]
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday lashed out at RajyaSabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu for rejecting an impeachment notice filed by opposition parties against Chief Justice of India DipakMisra and said it would move the Supreme Court to challenge the illegal order which had shattered the confidence of people. Senior Congress leader KapilSibal told reporters […]
Kochi: Stepping up pressure on the CPI(M)-led LDF government over the alleged custodial death of a 26-year-old youth at Varapuzha here, Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala Monday launched a 24-hour hunger strike demanding CBI probe into the incident. Chennithala began the fast at the Marine drive ground here this morning in the presence of Former chief […]
Salman Khan had allegedly made some objectionable remarks against the community during the promotion of Bollywood flick Tiger Zinda Hai
By Uzmi Athar New Delhi: Tasleema does not remember the last time she lived somewhere she could call home. As she fled Arakan in Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and finally arrived in New Delhi, Tasleema, a member of the besieged Rohingya community, found that she was always on the move. A fire in […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday underlined the support the BJP had received from backward sections of the society by noting that it had the maximum number of elected lawmakers from OBC, Dalit and tribal communities, and asserted that its reach was no longer confined to a particular class, urban centres or north […]
NEW DELHI: A group of 50 alumni from the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) across the country have quit their jobs to form a political party to fight for the rights of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. The group, which is waiting for an approval from the Election Commission, has named […]
NEW DELHI: As the Congress awaits the decision of Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on an impeachment notice moved by it and other parties against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, it is considering moving the Supreme Court if the petition is rejected, party leaders said. They said if the Upper House chairman did […]