Strongly pitching for decriminalisation of politics, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to constitute special courts on lines of fast track court for speedy disposal of cases pending against MPs and MLAs. The apex court told the government that decriminalisation of politics has to be do

The judge of the trial court hearing the Junaid Khan murder case said that a senior government lawyer was helping the main accused charged with the murder of the 15-year-old boy on board a Delhi-Mathura train on June 22 and has asked the Haryana government, the advocate general’s office and the bar

Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh) [India]: The Babri Masjid Action Committee on Tuesday lashed out at former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ram Vilas Vedanti for rejecting Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s mediation in Ayodhya dispute. Vedanti on Monday targeted the Art of Living founder over his initiative to media

New Delhi: Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, today moved the Supreme Court opposing a plea seeking reopening of the 70-year-old assassination case of the Mahatma. A bench of Justices S A Bobde and M M Shantanagoudar questioned the locus of Tushar Gandhi in the case. Senior a

New Delhi [India]: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a plea filed by Varun Thakur, father of Pradyuman Thakur who was found dead in a mysterious condition in Gurugram’s Ryan International School. On October 30, parents of Pradyuman organised a candle light march at the Ramlila Maidan in the n

Allahabad: In a gesture of ‘communal harmony’, volunteers belonging to both Hindu and Muslim communities united on Saturday to clean Allahabad ghats after they were left with heaps of trash by devotees on Friday. Located on river Yamuna, major ghats such as Balua ghat and Gau ghat were cleaned by

Terming note ban as foolish step and GST design faulty, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today said both the decisions of the government have derailed the economy. The Centre should have admitted that it had made a mistake to scrap high value currency notes last year, the former finance minis

A 39-year-old IPS officer, who came into the limelight last year for allegedly slapping a BJP worker in Kota over his misbehavior, died on Sunday while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Jaipur. Devashish Deo, a 2013-batch officer, was posted as deputy director at the Rajasthan Police

AHMEDABAD: The deaths of 18 newborn babies at the government-run civil hospital in the last three days has triggered a huge controversy in Gujarat with the opposition alleging that lack of proper healthcare facilities in the hospital caused the deaths. Nine of the reported deaths took place within a

New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has demanded Congress MP Ahmed Patel’s resignation from the Rajya Sabha, alleging that a suspected ISIS operative arrested recently used to work at a hospital where Patel had been a trustee earlier. “Ahmed Patel is the person running the sh

Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh): The Babri Masjid Action Committee on Friday denied reports of Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s meeting them to solve the dispute. Speaking to ANI, Haji Mehboob, a member of Babri Action Committee, said, “Long back one of Ravi Shankar’s mediators called saying

Thiruvananthapuram: Just weeks after Adityanath’s comment, President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday applauded Kerala for its record in public health and education and said that the state was a frontrunner in India’s quest to achieve total literacy. Speaking after launching state’s ambitious Technocity

Training guns at the BJP over the arrest of senior journalist Vinod Verma on charges of extortion, the Congress accused it on Friday of squeezing press freedom and demanded immediate release of the scribe. Senior Congress spokesperson Ajay Maken also demanded a judicial probe into the “serious se

The Supreme Court of India has ordered Asaram Bapu to approach the chief justice for interim bail tomorrow after yet another case of rape case registered against the self-styled godman in Gujarat. This is the third case of rape which has been registered against Asaram Bapu who is in jail since 20

NEW DELHI: A court here on Friday reserved its order on CBI's plea seeking early hearing on the application seeking consent of nine students for a lie detection test in connection with the missing Jawaharlal Nehru University student Najeeb Ahmed. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vis

The evening of January 30, 1948, was a defining moment in Indian history. The Father of the nation was in the lawn of Birla House in Delhi, when a right wing advocate of Hindu nationalism, Nathuram Godse, walked up to him and fired three shots at point blank range. Gandhi died on spot jolting the ba

Ahmedabad: Hardik Patel, Patidar agitation spearhead reacting on the non-bailable arrest warrant issued against him, said that it would increase the trouble of BJP. According to the news published in The Quint, he further said that his arrest would be favorable for him. It may be mentioned tha

Ahmedabad: Two suspected ISIS operatives were today arrested by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), which claimed that they were plotting an attack on a Jewish synagogue in Khadia area of Ahmedabad in “very near future”. The suspects, arrested in Surat, have been identified as Mohammad Kasim