NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Sunday sought responses of Union home secretary Govind Mohan, Delhi police commissioner Anurag Kumar and Delhi metro rail chief D Thara to a contempt petition for prima facie violating the court’s Oct 9 order against complete shutdown of metro and train services in Delhi on Saturday to thwart CJP’s protest seeking…
North Korea fires missiles towards sea, escalating tensions on Korean Peninsula (Reuters image) North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles towards its eastern waters on Monday, South Korea’s military said, as Pyongyang continued its weapons testing amid heightened tensions and a prolonged freeze in diplomatic engagement.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were launched…
Gauhati high court has intensified scrutiny of circumstances in which Nagaon’s Mumtaz Begum was sent to Bangladesh, warning Assam govt that it would presume a Foreigners’ Tribunal’s May 30 opinion declaring her a foreigner would be considered “not ready” if the state fails to establish when it was finalised.In its latest order on Oct 7,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court‘s order Sunday finding prima facie breach of its Oct 9 order against complete shutdown of Metro and train services and issuing notice to Union home secretary, Delhi Police commissioner and Delhi Metro chief altered over the course of a day senior advocate and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal‘s views on the…
NEW DELHI: BJP Sunday accused Rahul Gandhi of seeking to stoke division in the country on linguistic grounds after the LoP alleged that PM Modi has launched a “full-scale attack” on the Tamil language and culture.BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said the reality is that the Tamil language has received “immense respect” during Modi’s tenure, with…
NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant Sunday declined requests from Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and MP Rahul Gandhi, who wanted to meet him Monday to apprise him about “vote chori” allegations amid protests in Delhi seeking CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation.In an email response, the CJI said similar issues were already pending adjudication before Supreme Court and…
PM Modi and Tamil Nadu CM Joseph Vijay during the launch and inauguration of various development projects worth over Rs 13,000 crore at IIT Madras, in Chennai NEW DELHI: A brief stir broke out at an official government function attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Chennai on Sunday after some people displayed placards projecting…
NEW DELHI: The Congress and other opposition parties will march to the Supreme Court on Monday, October 12, demanding chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The protest comes a day after a police crackdown on demonstrators in Delhi and amid fresh political tensions…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Sunday condemned the repeated attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz after two merchant ships carrying Indian seafarers came under attack.In a statement, the ministry said the recurring attacks on commercial shipping in the region were deeply concerning and risked further aggravating an already volatile…
In a recent address, Asaduddin Owaisi highlighted the importance of cultivating political leadership within minority communities. Asaduddin Owaisi, the India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, on Sunday widened his party’s political outreach in Azamgarh in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, where he called for “greater political independence among minority communities”.Targeting both, the SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and…
