EX-MLA KULDEEP SENGAR TO STAY IN JAIL: SC STAYS BAIL IN UNNAO CASE
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has stayed a Delhi High Court order suspending ex-BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s life term for the rape of a woman – then a minor – in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao in 2017. A vacation bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant and including Justices JK Maheshwari and Augustine George Masih […]
ECI DEPLOYS NEW SOFTWARE FOR SIR, MINUS PROPER PROTOCOLS
NEW DELHI,2025: The journey of Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission of India’s intensive exercise to purify the voter rolls, could have been a smooth journey. But it is not the case, all thanks to the non-stop flip-flop over the rules and procedures governing the process. The tussle reached the Supreme Court, where the […]
OVER 660 NABBED IN DELHI CRACKDOWN TO ENSURE PEACEFUL NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS
NEW DELHI;27 Dec 2025: Under Operation Aaghat 3.0, hundreds of criminals have been arrested in an overnight crackdown in Delhi as the national capital gears up for New Year celebrations. The arrests stood at over 660 in the South and South East Delhi districts. Dozens of weapons, lakhs in cash, illicit liquor, drugs, and other […]
ROW OVER DIGVIJAYA SINGH’S PRAISE FOR BJP-RSS, QUESTIONS RAHUL GANDHI
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh has triggered a fresh controversy, a week after writing to Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi over the need for reforms within the party. Sharing a black and white photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the 1990s Saturday morning, he praised the BJP […]
OATH ON 5 POINTS BY CWC TO FIGHT NATIONWIDE FOR MGNREGP FROM JAN 5
NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making body of the party, on Saturday took the oath on five points to launch a nationwide movement from January 5 to fight for the rights-based Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme and opposed a new law enacted in the just concluded winter session of Parliament. […]
UDAIPUR IT FIRM CEO SISODIA, 2 OTHERS ARRESTED FOR RAPING MANAGER IN A CAR
NEW DELHI: The CEO of a private IT company, its woman executive head and her husband have been arrested for raping the firm’s manager in a moving car on the pretext of dropping her home after a birthday party in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. The three accused were detained on Wednesday and produced before a court – […]
RETURN OF DARK PRINCE & “SHADOW PMO” THAT RAN BANGLADESH
NEW DELHI: Christmas Day saw the triumphant homecoming of Bangladesh’s ‘dark prince’ – Tarique Rahman, the son of three-time former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and a central figure in her Bangladesh Nationalist Party – after nearly 17 years in self-imposed exile. Political ‘royalty’ by any standard – the 60-year-old is also the son of […]
BJP MAKES HISTORY IN KERALA, WITH FIRST EVER MAYOR
NEW DELHI: The BJP’s VV Rajesh was sworn in as Mayor of Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram Friday afternoon, marking a watershed moment in the southern state’s political landscape. In his first comments after being inducted, he said, “We will move forward together… taking everyone along. Development will be implemented in all 101 wards… Thiruvananthapuram will be […]
SHARAD PAWAR’S FAMILY REUNION WITH NEPHEW AJIT BEFORE MUMBAI CIVIC POLLS
NEW DELHI: Squeezed out, it seems, by their respective alliance bosses, Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party factions are drifting toward a big familial and political realignment in Maharashtra, weeks before the next round of federal and state polls – in 2029. On Friday afternoon uncle and nephew were on the verge of […]
SC DECRIES A BENCH SIT IN APPEAL OVER INTERIM ORDER BY ANOTHER BENCH
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court recently discouraged the practice of a later bench of the High Court sitting in appeal over an interim order passed by an earlier bench. It also stated that the High Court should not pass a blanket ‘no-coercive steps’ order without assigning reasons. In this case, the petitioner had sought an […]
