Saurav Das called for a wider political battle to hold Election Commission to account NEW DELHI: Slamming the freezing of TMC symbol and name as “fixing” on behalf of BJP, Rahul Gandhi and CJP co-convener Saurav Das Friday called for a wider political battle to hold Election Commission to account – their programmatic convergence and…
Bill doesn’t regulate charity, but flow of foreign funds intosovereign space, JPC Informed NEW DELHI: Amid the charge from the opposition that Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill targets institutions run by minorities, especially Christians, Union home ministry asserted Friday that the amendments do not regulate charity but the entry of foreign money into a “sovereign…
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran said this while quashing Rules 18A and 18B of Maharashtra Poisons Rules NEW DELHI: Questioning the efficacy of prohibition, Supreme Court Friday pointed to five “evils” associated with the ban on liquor – revenue loss, money spent on its enforcement, corruption in police, illegal…
Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi has granted default bail to US national Matthew Aaron VanDyke NEW DELHI: A special NIA court in Delhi Friday granted default bail to the US national arrested in March on terror charges for allegedly helping ethnic armed groups in India and Myanmar, days after the “incomplete” chargesheet filed by the…
SRINAGAR: Ladakhi political groups have called off the proposed week-long protest march in the region and said they will instead hold a “symbolic” one-day march on Sept 23, citing weather conditions and changing political situation in the UT.“Due to prevailing weather conditions with cold nights, we’re making it into a symbolic 20-km march on Sept…
The Supreme Court acquitted the RPF official, saying the CBI failed to prove that the intermediary accepted the bribe on his behalf. New Delhi: The speed at which CBI sprang into action on a bribery complaint and laid a trap within hours to catch a public servant could give rise to suspicion, which, Supreme Court…
Didi’s faction will be ‘Mamata All India Trinamool Congress’, EC said NEW DELHI: Election Commission, a day after it temporarily froze Trinamool Congress’ ‘flowers and grass’ poll symbol in view of the split in party, allotted a new set of party names and symbols to the rival factions led by Mamata Banerjee and Arup Roy.EC…
The situation is of particular concern in northernIndia (Representative image) NEW DELHI: In nearly 250 districts, more than 25% youth (15-29 age group) are neither engaged in any productive work, nor are they pursuing education or any sort of training for work, highlighting a gap in human capital utilisation.The situation is of particular concern in…
A bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and NV Anjaria gave this ruling NEW DELHI: In a judgment that will impact as many as nine penal laws, Supreme Court has ruled that the stringent provisions of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act providing for presumption of guilt of the accused must not persuade…
President of the Maldives The Maldives has fully repaid a $150 million Treasury bill facility subscribed by the State Bank of India (SBI) in 2019, with the final $50 million tranche settled on September 17, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Friday.MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the facility had been extended six times,…
