Article 370 'was not a special status. It was a special discrimination. With its abrogation we have brought Kashmiris on par with Indians', he said.
Dealing with the misuse of provisions of SC/ST Act and lodging of false cases, the bench said it was not due to the caste system but due to human failure. The directions passed on provision of arrest and conducting a preliminary probe before any case is lodged is uncalled for and the court should not have exercised its plenary powers, said the bench.
Asserting that Uttar Pradesh has undergone a complete transformation under his government, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday that there have been no riots since 2017, strict action has been taken against the mafia and the state is in the frontline of implementing welfare schemes, ensuring the ease of doing business and fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
A total of 16,960 cases of crime against women and children, including 2,568 rapes, have been reported in the last one year in Kerala.
Controversial self-styled 'godman' Sarathi Baba was on Saturday arrested by Odisha police on cheating and other charges following violent protests demanding action against him for his alleged escapades.
What makes the brutality every more evident, is that her oesophagus was missing and gnawing effects were seen over chest of the victim.
Ernakulam Principal Sessions court judge N Anil Kumar awarded the death penalty to Ameerul Islam, a migrant labourer from Assam, for committing murder of the law student at nearby Perumbavoor.
Maliwal dismissed the charge, saying she had not released the victim's name and that she was not scared of the FIR.
'Why did they attack us? What was our fault?' 'They killed a woman. They burnt down vehicles.' 'They pelted stones at us over a 45 km stretch. There was no police bandobast.'
An Arunachal Pradesh MLA's son, studying in a college in New Delhi, was allegedly thrashed by some shopkeepers in Lajpat Nagar area of south Delhi when he retaliated after they made fun of his hairstyle, which led to his death.
Three persons arrested in connection with death of a 19-year-old Arunachal Pradesh youth, who was allegedly beaten by some shopkeepers in New Delhi, were on Tuesday remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a Delhi court.
Non-ABVP student unions have called for banch on Monday after Vermula Rohit, a 22-year-old research scholar, allegedly hanged himself at a hostel in the Hyderabad Central University.
The Naxalites are reportedly extorting a 'levy' of about Rs 140 crore annually from a variety of sources, Government said on Wednesday.
The BJP president hit out at Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, alleging that the maximum killings of BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers have taken place in the latter's home district.
Sardar Udham sets a great standard which, Utkarsh Mishra believes, would be emulated by other film-makers who want to make movies of this genre.
Pakistan wants to unsettle those living in hamlets along the International Border in Jammu and Punjab, say security personnel.
'You have been surrounded from all directions, if you want the safety of your troops and your personal safety, we will give you eight hours to make up your mind to surrender.'
'But India, increasingly, is not that far behind, which is a story I never expected to tell.'
Bahujan Samaj Party Member of Parliament Dhananjay Singh, arrested along with his wife Jagriti Singh in connection with murder of their maid, was on Friday denied by a Delhi court which observed that he had "actively participated" in atrocities which aggravated the miseries of his domestic helps.
The revision petition challenges the trial court's order alleging that the magistrate 'has only desperately tried to shield the proposed accused'.
The Patidar community leader pitched for constitutional protection to the provision of reservation for them so as to preclude a judicial review.
Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Delhi Cantonment area Surinder Singh, arrested for allegedly assaulting an New Delhi Municipal Council worker, was on Saturday granted bail by a court in New Delhi.
'Super Cop', K P S Gill has stirred the proverbial hornet's nest with his comment that the first martyr of the Assam agitation against illegal migrants, Khargeswar Talukdar, was not killed because of police action but drowned in a pond.
People, carrying "Not In My Name" placards and forming human chains, protested across Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Goa and Kerala.
'70 years back, Dalits used to be abused, scolded, slapped, but killing a Dalit was rare because a Dalit was somebody's property.' 'Now that they are free, they are facing violent attacks.'
Unfazed by the Supreme Court order, Madras High Court judge Justice C S Karnan has said that he would "order" lodging an FIR under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act) against the two Apex court judges who have directed that he be not given any judicial work.
Kejriwal on Friday accused the state administration of colluding in the incident of attack on Dalit men by cow vigilantes as he met the victims and their families.
Nitin Gadkari led BJP delegation on Sunday met President Pranab Mukherjee over Kerala violence issue.
The houses of a sitting and a former MLA, both Dalits, were set afire by a violent mob.
40-year-old secular blogger Niloy Neel was an activist of the platform demanding capital punishment for the 1971 war criminals -- the Ganajagaran Mancha.
Dalit leaders ask community members to give up disposing dead cattle to 'send a strong message' to the Gujarat government.
The clashes led to disruption in normal activities in various places including Lal Chowk, the nerve centre of the city, the officials said.
'A recent compromise by the state government is accepting NEET exams for medical entrance.'
Mulayam to return to Mainpuri seat.
A 60-year-old Dalit man and his physically challenged daughter were burnt alive by members of the Jat community in Mirchpur village in Haryana's Hisar district in April 2010.
Calcutta high court judge Justice C S Karnan will observe hunger strikes in Delhi and three other cities demanding restoration of his administrative and judicial work and withdrawal of the suo motu contempt proceedings against him.
The CM said the alleged sex abuse of girls at the shelter home "has left us with a sense of shame and guilt".
=The video also confirms what initial investigations by the media into the Bhima Koregaon violence had found -- that it was a fallout of a Dalit-Maratha dispute in Vudu Budruk village.
"I want to peacefully meet the family members of the victims who had fallen to the bullets in the clash. I want to see the orders under which I have been stopped to meet them," Priyanka Gandhi said while sitting on the dharna .
Agitated over the alleged assault on student protesters by police, students from various universities across Delhi on Tuesday staged a protest outside police headquarters in New Delhi blocking the traffic at ITO intersection.
