[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Shashi Tharoor’s recent praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ruffled some feathers in the Congress as fellow party leaders have questioned the move. Demanding an explanation for his praise, Tharoor’s colleague Sandeep Dikshit went on to ask “why are you in Congress” and even termed him a “hypocrite”.“Shashi Tharoor’s problem is…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the validity of the practice among Muslim men to authorise a lawyer to send notices to his wife for divorce through three talaqs, each notified after a month’s gap, and said this would not be regarded as a valid annulment of marriage as the notices do not…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Union govt through National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (Notto) to evolve model national guidelines to address concerns of gender, class and region, and provide for appropriate remedial measures.This order came on a PIL by Indian Society of Organ Transplant which, through senior advocate K Parameshwar,…
[ad_1] New Delhi: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s brother, Anmol, upon his deportation from US. He arrived here on a special flight around 2pm, was produced in court and taken on a remand of 11 days. The agency arrested him in a case registered in 2022 to investigate an alleged…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court has granted interim bail to social activist Jyoti Jagtap in the Elgar Parishad case.A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma on Wednesday granted her the relief till the next date of hearing in Feb next year, after senior advocate Aparna Bhat told the court…
[ad_1] PATNA/NEW DELHI: Nitish Kumar is set to take oath for an unprecedented 10th time as Bihar CM on Thursday after leading his party, JDU, and the governing bloc, NDA, to their second-best performance in the state, proving his resilience and popularity in an election where he was perceived as a vulnerable link in the…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Amitabh Kant, India’s former sherpa to G20, has said the country needs to fire on all cylinders to reach the goal of a $30 trillion economy. “If we want to create an employable population, it is very critical to focus on improving health outcomes and nutrition standards as we-ll. If we want…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI :A group of 272 prominent citizens including retired judges, bureaucrats and armed forces veterans Wednesday wrote an open letter, lashing out at Congress neta Rahul Gandhi for unleashing his “impotent rage born out of repeated electoral failure” to tarnish EC’s dignity.They said Rahul has repeatedly attacked EC over accusations of “vote theft”…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Observing that the allegations against him were serious, a Delhi court on Wednesday sent Anmol Bishnoi, accused of operating as a terror-gangster syndicate member and allegedly murdering former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, firing at actor Salman Khan’s residence in April 2024, and killing Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, among other crimes to 11…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: In a major reform to strengthen aviation safety oversight and better protect air travellers’ interests, India has set the old plan of restructuring the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) into a financially and administratively autonomous organisation like SEBI or TRAI into motion. A Parliamentary panel had sought the restructuring to give…