The national capital on Friday witnessed a wave of fresh protests with a car being set on fire during one of the several demonstrations by people in their thousands who took to the streets shouting anti-government slogans over the contentious citizenship law. The epicentre of the protest was the locality around the Jama Masjid where large number of people held a massive protest after the Friday prayers at the mosque defying prohibitory orders and police clampdown.
He has also convened the first meeting of the extended CWC on July 22 to chalk out the party's future strategy.
According to SBI executives, the aim is to do things efficiently with an eye on profitability, and get a feedback on areas, including which business to enter and which to exit.
The vice-chairman of Amul has been arrested on charges of cheating the Petlad Mahila Utkarsh Credit Society of Rs 83 lakhs, a senior police official said in Ahmedabad.
Congress MP Sushmita Dev said that speeches given by Modi and Shah are also punishable under section 153A of the Indian Penal Code as they "blatantly promote disharmony and feelings of enmity on the grounds of religion and such acts are also likely to prejudice the maintenance of public harmony and tranquility between religious communities".
Following the footsteps of his maternal uncle and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi's son Rehan was on a surprise visit to Amethi during which he interacted and shared meals with villagers, creating a buzz in the high-profile constituency.
However, in reality, Mukherjee neither wore a cap nor did he give any salute.
The incident occurred after the trail, for the rape and murder that took place in Sulur in January 2002, was posted for Friday at the Mahila court.
A contingent of over two dozen women, including border guarding 'mahila' troops of BSF, have embarked on a maiden 2,300 km camel safari along India's international border with Pakistan.
'All the political parties did nothing. These parties talk of helping the poor but no one actually did anything,' says social activist Abdul Jabber.
Dev also attacked Narendra Modi government for imposing '12 per cent' GST on sanitary napkins, which she said 'runs contrary' to the government's 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' campaign.
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Days after he quit Congress and created a controversy by taking down the website of the party state unit, Sanjay Puri on Thursday joined Aam Aadmi Party along with scores of Janakpuri block Congress workers.
The Centre's programmes of maternity benefit and Child Protection Services also got a major boost in the Budget.
Governor Ram Naik and UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav greeted people on the occasion at Eidgah.
The entry by members of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan into the mausoleum came more than a month after the Haji Ali Dargah Trust told the Supreme Court it will allow women inside the inner sanctum of the shrine. Women devotees' entry into it was banned a few years ago.
There would be no retrenchment of employees and that their services conditions would also not be affected post merger.
Activists and family members of the 30-year-old victim cry foul as the police claim that the woman wasn't gang-raped and that a single man murdered her with his helmet after she fought back. Sharat Pradhan reports.
A tribal woman travelling in an air-conditioned luxury bus was allegedly raped by helper of the vehicle while other passengers were fast asleep. The incident took place on Sunday night when the 25-year-old victim was travelling in a private bus running from Mayurbhanj to Bhubaneswar.
The HC had held that the trust had no power to alter or modify the mode or manner of religious practices of any individual or any group.
However, after a raid at the place on Sunday night, police said 24 girls were rescued.
Students, professors and women rights organisations have been protesting, demanding his arrest, after some students accused him of sexual harassment.
Senior advocate A M Singhvi, appearing for Dev, said that the poll panel has passed 'unreasoned' orders while dismissing complaints of MCC violations against Modi and Shah and moreover, there have been reports of dissent by one of the election commissioners in passing some of the decisions.
The Union law ministry will file a consolidated reply on the issue in the apex court by the end of this month.
At a time when senior Congress leaders are shying away from contesting the April 24 Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu and despite a lack of enthusiasm among cadres, there is a race to get tickets to contest from select constituencies perceived as "winnable", party sources said.
In an otherwise agriculture- and public health-focused Union Budget 2018-19, artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain technology, internet of things -- jargons that found little or no mention in the previous Budgets -- managed to make their presence felt.
Congress says it is not principally against cow protection but is against targeting Dalits and Muslims in the name of gau raksha.
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Second-line AIADMK leaders and cadres alike say that by starting the talks first with the BJP and committing the party to an alliance without discussing seat-sharing, the leadership might have commenced the coalition discourse at the wrong end. According to them, even 20 seats for the BJP may be too many, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
As many as 40 pro-Telangana students were on Tuesday taken into preventive custody in different parts of the city even as tension prevailed on the Osmania University campus with the protesting students indulging in stone throwing on security forces.
The Congress chief also accused the prime minister again of running away from the debate.
The member, Somya Gurjar, handed over her resignation to Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.
All the seven accused have been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it would hear the petition on Tuesday.
