Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu Monday called Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann the 'most protected CM' as he took on the Aam Aadmi Party government over the law and order situation in the state and also claimed that his security has been pruned.
Pakistan on Tuesday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gopal Baglay to lodge a protest over the road-rage incident involving a Pakistani diplomat in New Delhi. "He was summoned by the director general south Asia to lodge a protest. She has asked him to conduct a thorough probe into the incident and to bring the guilty to justice. He was also asked to ensure the security of our diplomats working in India," an official source said.
In a suspected case of road rage, two judges and the driver of the car they were travelling in were attacked by unidentified motorcyclists in south Delhi on Thursday evening.
Pollution and overheating have topped the list of seven deadly stress factors which effect Mumbai commuters the most, a survey has revealed.
The lawyers at Delhi's Saket district court complex have called for a strike on Friday to protest against an attack on three judges.
The German, a four times world champion, was given a 10 second stop-and-go penalty during the race for angrily banging wheels with his Mercedes rival while they were behind the safety car.
Devi, who is accused of violating prohibition law, was on Tuesday sent to 14-day judicial custody.
With no other stand-out performance (besides Tara Sutaria's) or impressive scene, Apurva falls by the wayside, where other quickly made films end up, points out Deepa Gahlot.
The 58-year-old cricketer-turned-politician will perform the job from his barrack only because of security reasons, a jail official said.
Long-distance commuting is still the norm despite progress in flexible working practices with 20 per cent of commuters globally and 26 per cent in India travelling over 90 minutes everyday, a survey revealed.
Sixty-seven villages in Assam's Lakhimpur district have been battling flood waters for the last six months.
The Speaker informed the House that he was accepting Sidhu's resignation with effect from Monday.
"We are working on using land resources and PPP model for having more residential as well as office accommodation in the future," Urban Development Minister S Jaipal Reddy said on Tuesday while laying the foundation stone of general pool office complex in New Delhi. Comparing the VIPs' penchant for pet accommodation and dream houses to road rage in the city, Reddy said the ministry is facing 'house rage' in the capital.
After the Patna high court granted bail to Rocky Yadav in the infamous Gaya road rage case, the victim's family expresses their anguish.
After spending two nights in jail, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, convicted and sentenced for three years imprisonment in a road rage case, was released on Saturday on bail granted by the Supreme Court.
Despite high exposure to floods, Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim are the best performing states in terms of flood early warning systems (EWS), according to the report by independent policy research think tank The Council on Energy Environment and Water.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday spoke to his deputy G Kishan Reddy and enquired about the incident and the prevailing situation at Bhainsa town in Telangana where prohibitory orders under Section 144 of Code of Criminal Procedure were imposed following a clash between members of two communities.
A rogue BMW driver and his friend, who knocked down a rickshaw puller and beat him up in a road rage incident have been given a chance by a Delhi court to reform.The two men in their early 20s, who were held guilty of rash driving and assault, were released on probation by the court on the condition that they would help the rickshaw puller's children in their studies.
Thakur's tenure as chief minister is best remembered for implementation of the recommendations of the Mungeri Lal Commission, whereby quotas for backward classes were introduced in the state in 1978. This panel was the forerunner of the Mandal Commission. Both Mungeri Lal and B P Mandal were from Bihar, which has a long history of socialist struggles.
The bench further said that the conviction of Sidhu will not be operative till the disposal of his appeal against the high court judgment.
In his application, Sidhu said he was willing to surrender before the court since his case is now before the Supreme Court since the suspension of sentence.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) in Delhi reprimanded Jadavpur University for submitting a "generic" report about the incident.
The Supreme Court has reserved its judgment in the Navjot Singh Sidhu case. The judgment is now expected on Friday morning.
Harish Salve, senior advocate of the Supreme Court, argued that in a particular case a Karnataka legislator who had been convicted in a rape case had been allowed to contest elections by the Karnataka high court.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Navjot Singh Sidhu in a 1988 murder case.
"I am writing a fresh letter in accordance with the rules," Sidhu told PTI after changing his mind in less than two hours after declaring that he would not send a fresh resignation letter to the Speaker.
The former India batsman was accused of getting into a fight with the occupant of the other car and beating him up, leading to his death.
The 'Age of Rage' survey by Tata Salt Lite revealed some startling facts about the causes of stress and anxiety among urban Indians.
In yet another case of suspected hate crime, an Indian-origin Sikh taxi driver in the US has been assaulted by an unidentified man, who knocked off his turban and also used expletives against him outside the JFK International Airport in New York, according to a video on social media.
Following the incident, the police registered a case against 40-year-old Vivekanand Vaishya, Morba police station inspector Ashok Singh Parihar said.
The Yamuna surged to a record 208.48 metres at 8 am, the Central Water Commission said on Thursday, adding that it is likely to rise to 208.75 metres by 4 pm.
The party high command would be taking a decision on the issue on January 15.
India's plant-based meat market is estimated at $30-40 million, largely driven by consumer packaged food. The market size in India is likely to touch $500 million in three years.
The rain ebbed in some places in north India and pelted down in others on Tuesday, with at least seven more people dead and hundreds stranded as raging waters gushed through villages, towns and fields -- from the desert state of Rajasthan to the hills of Himachal Pradesh.
The situation could worsen if weather predictions of more rain in the capital and upper catchment areas come true.
'How can one bring jihad into a relationship? How can one be restricted on the grounds of religion in marital things?'
A few former MLAs, considered to be his loyalists and a few supporters, turned up at Sidhu's residence in Patiala Friday morning to extend moral support to him.
Sidhu was in Patiala to take part in a protest against inflation when the Supreme Court verdict came in.
The IMD said heatwave conditions are likely to continue over the northern plains, and central and southern parts of the country for two more days and abate gradually.
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