Assam, 21/5: The flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim on Friday as waters entered fresh areas affecting a total of 29 districts, though the number of people hit by the deluge decreased marginally to 7,11,905, a government bulletin said. As four more deaths were reported due to the calamity, the toll…
New Delhi, 21/5: Associate professor of Delhi University’s Hindu College Ratan Lal was arrested on Friday night for his objectionable social media post referring to claims about a ‘Shivling’ found inside Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque complex, police said. They said Lal was arrested under Indian Penal Code sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups…
Bangalore, 20/5: The Supreme Court on Friday said the state government cannot run the local corporation and an elected body has to be in place, as it gave eight weeks time to the Karnataka government to complete the exercise for delimitation of wards and determination of OBC reservation in BBMP. A bench of Justices…
Chilika ,20/5:The Orissa High Court on Friday rejected the regular bail plea of Chilika MLA Prashant Jagadev, who is in an interim bail now on health ground. In the judgment, the High Court dismissed the regular bail plea and directed the MLA to surrender to the Banpur JMFC court on the 23rd of this month…
New Delhi,,20/5:Aviation regulator DGCA Friday granted Jet Airways the Air Operator Certificate (AOC), allowing the airline to resume commercial flight operations. Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) chief Arun Kumar told PTI the “AOC” has been “granted” to Jet Airways. In its old avatar, the airline was owned by Naresh Goyal and…
New Delhi, 20/5: The Supreme Court Friday transferred the civil suit filed by Hindu devotees on Gyanvapi mosque from civil judge (senior division) to district judge, Varanasi saying looking at the complexities and sensitivity of the issue, it is better for a senior judicial officer to handle the case. A bench of Justices…
New Delhi, 20/5: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu surrendered in a court in Patiala on Friday, a day after he was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in a 1988 road-rage case. Accompanied by some party leaders including Navtej Singh Cheema, he reached the district court, which is closed to…
New Delhi, 20/5: The Supreme Court on Friday permitted mining firms to export their excavated iron ore from mines in districts of Ballari, Chitradurga, and Tumakuru in Karnataka. A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli took note of the stand of the Central government and…
New Delhi, 20/5: The Supreme Court on Friday granted 4 weeks’ time to a technical committee to submit a report on the Pegasus snooping case. The court said that the supervising judge would study the technical committee’s report and give his opinion to the court by June-end
New Delhi, 20/5: In an apparent swipe at the Opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said some political parties keep looking for small incidents of tension to inject poison for their selfish interests. “Attempts will be made to deviate you from the country’s development issues but you have to stick to them,”…
