New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Friday forwarded to President Ram Nath Kovind the mercy petition of one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape case, recommending its rejection, officials said. Mukesh Singh, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case,

Bhubaneswar: At least 15 passengers were injured as five coaches of the Mumbai-Bhubaneswar Lokmanya Tilak Express derailed and three more were displaced after colliding with a goods train amid heavy fog near Cuttack in Odisha on Thursday, railway officials said. Railway officials had earlier said

Making his stand very clear, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Thursday said that he is not a rubber stamp and will apply his own mind. Khan was reacting to the media after reports surfaced that he refused to sign an ordinance approved by the Kerala cabinet to increase the number of members i

The Delhi government said on Wednesday that the convicts in the 2012 gang rape case will not be executed on January 22 as a mercy petition has been filed with the President, reported news agency PTI. Citing prison rules, the state government said they are duty bound to wait for convict’s mercy pl

Kolkata, Jan 15: The arrows of Mahabharata's Arjuna had atomic power, claimed West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, drawing sharp criticism from academicians, even as he joined a long list of politicians who have in recent years given bizarre interpretations linking mythology with science. Speak

New Delhi: New Delhi: Kerala on Tuesday became the first state to challenge the amended citizenship law after the Pinarayi Vijayan government filed a suit in the Supreme Court, seeking a direction to declare the contentious legislation unconstitutional. The Kerala Assembly had in December passed

New Delhi: A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the curative pleas filed by Nirbhaya case convicts Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh, paving the way for their execution on January 22. The bench of Justices NV Ramana, Arun Mishra, RF Nariman, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan, whic

The Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday filed a defamation suit against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seeking Rs 500 crore in damages after it tweeted a video that showed Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari dancing to the tune of AAP’s campaign song for the February 8 assembly polls. The video

New Delhi: A nine-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court is scheduled to commence on Monday hearing a batch of pleas on the issue of allowing women of all ages to enter Kerala's Sabarimala temple, along with other contentious issues of alleged discrimination against Muslim and Parsi women.

Jabalpur: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the government “will not rest” until each oppressed Pakistani refugee is given Indian citizenship. He was speaking at a public meeting organised here to drum up support for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). “Congress people, listen…Op

New Delhi: A fact-finding committee of the Congress on the JNU violence on Sunday said the January 5 attack inside the university campus was "state-sponsored" and recommended Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar be dismissed and criminal investigation initiated against him. The Congress had appointed

New Delhi: Delhi Police has identified 37 students from a WhatsApp group created during the January 5 violence on the JNU campus, sources said. They said the identified persons do not belong to any organisation Left or Right. Those identified are students who were in favour of the semester reg

New Delhi: Indian Army chief Manoj Mukund Naravane on Saturday said the Indian Army will take steps to wrest Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) from Islamabad’s control if Parliament wanted it and if the Indian government gave such an order. Addressing his customary press conference ahead of Army Da

New Delhi, Jan 9: Taking a dig at the Centre, former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday said actress Deepika Padukone was patriotic when she was an ambassador for a Modi government initiative but turned anti-national after visiting JNU. Addressing a crowd outside the premise

Ahmedabad, Jan 9: A private school in the city had to face angry parents after it asked students to write congratulatory postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bringing in the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The trustee of Little Star School in Maninagar area said later that it was only a wri

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday, brainstorm with top economists at NITI Aayog to discuss the economic slowdown and set the base for government agenda going forward. Top cabinet ministers including home minister Amit Shah, road minister Nitin Gadkari, commerce minister Piyush

The country is witnessing troubled times and petitions in Supreme Court should not exacerbate the situation, Chief Justice of India SA Bobde observed on Thursday on an unusual petition that wants the top court to declare the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act as constitutional. Parli

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