New Delhi, 21/5: A Delhi court on Tuesday framed charges of sexual harassment, intimidation and outraging the modesty of women against ex-Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a criminal case filed by female wrestlers. Singh pleaded not guilty to the charges before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Priyanka Rajpoot and…
New Delhi, 21/5: The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the interim bail hearing of former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren to May 22 in the case by Enforcement Directorate where he has been booked for “huge racket of illegal change of ownership of land by the mafia”in Jharkhand. On May 13, referring to the top court’s…
New Delhi, 21/5: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday is carrying out searches at 11 locations across different states regarding a case of terror conspiracy which was registered in Bengaluru this year, ANI reported.
Bhubaneswar, 21/5: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday appealed to the BJP to keep Lord Jagannath above the political discourse, after the saffron party’s Puri candidate Sambit Patra’s remark that the state’s most revered deity is a “devotee of PM Modi” Patra, however, later clarified that it was a slip of tongue and he…
Bhubaneswar, 20/5: Often the opposition target for his sartorial choices, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the biggest allegation he faced in his political career was that he owned 250 pairs of clothes. In an interview to PTI, Modi said the allegation was levelled by Congress leader and former Gujarat chief minister Amarsinh Chaudhary and…
Kawardha, 20/5: : Seventeen women and a man were killed and four others injured when a mini goods vehicle they were travelling in plunged into a valley in Chhattisgarh’s Kabirdham district on Monday, police said. The accident occurred around 1.45 pm on Banjari Ghat near Bahpani village under Kukdur police station limits, an official said….
New Delhi, 20/5: Graffiti threatening Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was scribbled inside metro stations and trains in the national capital with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday accusing the BJP and the Prime Minister’s Office of being behind it . AAP MLAs also wrote to the Election Commission saying that it is a…
Bengaluru, 20/5: A special court has granted bail to former Karnataka minister and JD(S) leader H D Revanna in a sexual harassment case. The case was registered against Revanna and his son Prajwal Revanna, MP from Hassan, at Holenarasipura police station. The special court for cases involving MPs/MLAs had earlier granted him interim anticipatory bail…
New Delhi, 20/5: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has distanced itself from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) research on ‘adverse effects’ of Covaxin and has labelled it a ‘poorly designed study’, news agency ANI reported. The study, with an acknowledgement to the council, claimed that over 30 per cent people who took the jab…
New Delhi, 20/5: The Supreme Court has decided to look into an important legal issue pertaining to whether Muslim women can claim right to equality in matters of succession in light of the State’s endeavour to bring in Uniform Civil Code and its 2017 Constitution bench judgment invalidating the practice of triple talaq. A bench…
