Uttar Pradesh legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar who was convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl who came to him for help to get a job was sentenced to life in jail by a Delhi Court on Friday. The court also ordered him to pay a Rs 25 lakh fine. Of this amount, the judge said, the girl would get Rs 10 l

Furious over a special court’s verdict to drag Gen (retd.) Pervez Musharraf’s corpse to the Parliament and hang it for three days, the Pakistan government on Thursday said that it will move to the Supreme Judicial Council to unseat the “mentally unfit” head of the tribunal. In its 167-page detail

New Delhi: Amid protests against the amended citizenship law, BJP working president J P Nadda asserted on Thursday that the CAA will be implemented, and that the National Register of Citizens will also be brought in. Nadda made these remarks here after meeting Sikh refugees from Afghanistan, who

Rajkot: A man from Rajkot threw his three daughters into a well on Wednesday and committed suicide moments later. The incident took place in Junagadh district of Rajkot. The deceased man was a Gram Rakshak Dal (GRD) jawan, he was identified as Rasik Solanki. Rasik's want for a male child allegedly p

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to provide any relief to student protesters from any coercive action, including arrest. As the court turned down the petition for protection, lawyers chanted "shame, shame". The court was hearing petitions requesting the formation of a judicial

New Delhi: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Thursday announced Rs 5 lakh and a job at the Delhi Waqf Board to a Jamia student who suffered an eye injury during a protest against the amended Citizenship Act. The Okhla MLA, who is also the chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board, said he will meet Minhajuddin,

New Delhi: Politician-writer Shashi Tharoor and playwright Nand Kishore Acharya are among 23 writers who will be bestowed with the Sahitya Akademi Award 2019. The national academy of letters announced the names of the winners on Wednesday. While Tharoor won the award for his book "An Era of Darkn

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a PIL seeking setting up of a fact- finding committee to look into the recent violence at Jamia Milia Islamia University. The petition was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Rekha Palli by advocate Rizwan and

New Delhi: Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane will be the next Chief of Army Staff helming the 1.3 million-strong force, official sources said on Monday. Lt Gen Naravane is currently serving as Vice Chief of the Army. Sources said Naravane's appointment has been cleared at the highest level, adding

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL, which wanted Hindus to receive benefits as ‘minority’ in eight states and Union Territories, based on their population. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde declined to entertain the petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer and B

Amristar: An eight-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a 15-year-old boy inside a private school in Beas near here, police said on Monday. The accused, a Class X student, has been arrested and produced before a juvenile court in Amritsar which has sent him to a correction home, Deputy Superinten

Students from educational institutions across India have lent support to their counterparts in Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI, New Delhi) and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU, Uttar Pradesh) following the police crackdown on protests in the campuses. Monday will witness a number of student prote

Dumka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the Congress and its allies of raising a storm over citizenship law and asserted that the opposition parties were behind the unrest and arson in parts of the country. The prime minister, addressing an election rally here, lashed out at the o

Several Twitter users claiming to be Muslim took to Twitter this week to share an identical piece of text announcing their support for Citizenship Amendment Bill, which was signed into law by President Ramnath Kovind on Thursday. “I’m a Muslim. I support #CABBill,” their messages claimed. “I stro

New Delhi: A two-year-old girl died after she was allegedly given a wrong medicine by a medical store in Shahdara's GTB Enclave area, police said on Friday. The girl was declared dead on Thursday after her mother rushed her to a nearby hospital, they said. According to police, the girl was suffer

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath urged every household in Jharkhand to contribute Rs 11 and a ‘shila’ (brick) for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. He made the remarks while addressing an election rally on Friday. “Very soon the construction of Ram Temple will begin in Ayo

A day after Opposition members in Lok Sabha raised the issue of lotus being printed on new passports, the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said it was part of the enhanced security features to identify fake passports and involves using other national symbols as well on rotation. Raising t

NEW DELHI : The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 received President Ram Nath Kovind's nod late Thursday, and hence became an Act. The President's assent comes amid intense outrage across Assam and Tripura, where curfew has been extended indefinitely in some parts. The Army was also deployed to