New Delhi, 20/4: The BJP on Saturday disassociated itself with the criticism of the Supreme Court by its MPs Nishikant Dubey and Dinesh Sharma, with party president J P Nadda rejecting the comments as their personal views. He also affirmed the ruling party’s respect for the judiciary as an inseparable part of democracy.   R

Kolkata, 8/2: A 24-year-old woman has been arrested for smoking in the lavatory of a Bengaluru-bound flight.   Priyanka Chakraborty, of Sealdah district, West Bengal, was caught smoking inside the lavatory of IndiGo flight number 6E 716 late on Sunday night. The plane took off from Kolkata at 9.50 pm and landed in Bengaluru more…

Iran, 25/12: Iran’s foreign minister denied that his country is helping Yemen’s Houthi rebels attack commercial ships traveling through the Red Sea, warning the waterway won’t be safe as long as Israel maintains its offensive in Gaza. The White House, citing newly released intelligence, said Friday that Iran was “deeply involved” in the planning of…

New Delhi, 15/2: In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court, on Thursday, declared the Electoral Bonds Scheme introduced, in 2018, for contribution to political parties, as unconstitutional for being violative to the Right to Information of the citizens. A bench of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai,…

Dhaka, 31/12: Thousands of Bangladeshis rallied at a ‘March for Unity’ in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to mark the student-led uprising five months ago that led to the ouster of longstanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and remember the more than 1,000 killed. The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) group that led the protests, dropped a…