The five-state assembly elections are seen as a now-or-never, no-holds battle for the Congress, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Delhi high court on Friday questioned the Delhi police what offence was committed by certain Indian nationals when they housed foreigners, who attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation last year, during a nationwide lockdown, saying the government notification did not impose any bar on persons residing at any particular place.
Is Shivraj Singh Chouhan paying the price of being in the wrong camp? Aditi Phadnis and Shashikant Trivedi find out.
The investigative agency has been asked to file its report to the apex court on July 24.
'There is a special benefit in the matter being taken up by the Supreme Court rather than the high courts.' 'The orders of the high courts are limited, but the Supreme Court order is binding upon everybody.'
Ailing MP Governor Ram Naresh Yadav is being taken to Lucknow to attend the last rites of his son Shailesh, who died under mysterious conditions.
Stalin is preparing the DMK to go the whole hog in making 'federalism', 'Tamil self-respect' and 'communal cohesiveness' the party's poll plank next year, and package the BJP and its possible allies, as 'divisive' and 'reactionary', predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Divita made it to the Top 16 in the pageant.
Thakur, 48, also set the tone for her high-profile poll battle in Bhopal againt Congress candidate Digvijay Singh, whom she accused of using words like 'Hindu' and 'saffron' terror.
The all-women panel, which concluded its interaction with the affected family members and officials on Tuesday, called upon the state government to be neutral and bring those responsible for the 17-year-old plus two student's death, to book.
'Even if something appears to be wrong, we can always request the government and Parliament to make amends.'
Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai was offloaded from her flight to London as her proposed "testimony" before a British parliamentary committee would have been "prejudicial" to India's interests, the Centre has told Delhi High Court.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre on the plea of Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai against her "offloading" from a flight to London at the Delhi airport.
Some police encounters that stunned India.
Ram Naresh Yadav was on Wednesday sworn-in as the Governor of Chhattisgarh following the resignation of Shekhar Dutt. The Madhya Pradesh Governor has been given the additional charge of Chhattisgarh.
Nearly 98% of shareholders vote in favour of his reappointment and payment of remuneration to Lodha.
'... of protecting the lives and property of a large section of society.' 'It may further deepen the communal divide which already exists in the country.'
An agitating Congress member in Lok Sabha on Monday banged his placard on the table of the Speaker, prompting the angry Sumitra Mahajan to abruptly adjourned the House for an hour.
Ramesh, however, said it was too early to talk about all this right now as the Congress' first priority was the upcoming elections in Karnataka and the string of state polls this year.
"One nation, one law can be understood. But we will never accept one nation, one party plan of the BJP", Thackeray said.
In the year 2016, 8132 human trafficking cases have been reported in India.
The Gujarat high court on Thursday put a stay on the operation of some sections related to interfaith marriages of the state's new anti-conversion law.
The Congress said the foot march, being led by party leader Rahul Gandhi, will proceed according to its schedule and reach Jammu on Monday afternoon.
A special bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari, which posed tough questions to the Andhra Pradesh government on its decision to hold Class 12 board examinations, asked the standing counsel for the state Mahfooz A Nazki to place before the court the "snapshot of the file" giving reasons to hold the test.
The apex court said it will hear the matter on Tuesday and possibly can pass an order if the petitioner brings on record that what the film depicts is highly objectionable.
The direction and remarks by the bench assume significance, as this is the third time the issue has cropped up before the apex court and an earlier bench had dismissed the student's plea with the controversial observation by Justice Markandeya Katju that the country cannot be 'Talibanised'.
Rather than a blind reproduction of the government template, a more productive way of enforcing affirmative action in the private sector could be to emulate an American model, suggests Kanika Datta.
The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government has given environment clearance to five projects since it took charge on May 26.
Centre asked Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana governments to tighten security as the three states have a large number of followers of Asaram.
The hijab-row triggered protests in Karnataka spread across the state on Tuesday, with campuses witnessing 'conflict-like' situations marked by stone-pelting incidents, use of force by police and the Muslim girls standing their ground for wearing the headscarves, prompting calls for peace and calm both by the government and the high court, which is now looking into the students' plea for their right to their hijab.
The biopic was originally set to release on April 12, but its producers had advanced it by a week, claiming 'public demand'.
The exhibition of artefacts -- in physical and digital formats -- will be done on the same floor level where the leaders' meetings will take place, and they will walk through this 'cultural corridor' while moving into and out of the summit room, official sources said.
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The Pandey panel has been directed to probe the 'circumstances in which the SIMI members escaped from the prison and the officials responsible for it'.
The court noted that Gupta made 'dishonest misrepresentation' before the then prime minister.
Joshi, once a close aide of the Sadhvi before they fell out over some dispute, was shot dead in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas on December 29, 2007 in Audyogik Police station area.
An alleged unauthorised communication equipment has been seized from the office of prominent NGO Greenpeace at a village in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh and two persons have been arrested for trying to disrupt the police probe, a senior police official said on Wednesday.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde directed that the inquiry commission should start functioning within a week and the probe be concluded within two months.
Delhi HC said, with reference to the Greenpeace activist, that difference of opinion does not mean being anti-national.
The Congress won in five local bodies, while the BJP was confined to three.
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