Russia will continue to build a particularly privileged strategic partnership with India with a view to enhance and expand cooperation in all areas on a mutually beneficial basis, said a Russian foreign policy document approved by President Vladimir Putin on Friday.
A Swedish national, 63, was arrested in Mumbai on Thursday for allegedly molesting a 24-year-old cabin crew member on board a four-hour IndiGo flight from Bangkok. Klas Erik Harald Jonas Westberg, who was drunk at the time of the incident, also assaulted another flyer. Police filed a chargesheet using the accounts of three witnesses (all cabin crew).
Twenty-one of those killed were women. There were three children among the dead, including a one-and-a-half-year-old boy whose parents could only watch in horror as he plunged into the well just inches away from them. His body was among the last to be found as the dead were stacked on top of each other in the 50-foot-deep well.
A comment by the German foreign ministry in Berlin that it expected "standards of judicial independence and fundamental democratic principles" would apply to the proceedings against Rahul Gandhi following his disqualification from Lok Sabha set off a fresh slugfest between BJP and Congress on Thursday.
While government facilities were grossly overburdened in the first few days of the strike, the situation seems to have stabilised. "Due to the strike, patients from other states have stopped coming to Rajasthan for now," said Dr Achal Sharma, superintendent of Jaipur's SMS Hospital, the largest government health facility in the state. Rajasthan draws a sizable patient load from neighbouring states owing to its relatively better healthcare infrastructure.
Drawing flak from the southern states, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India issued on Thursday a revised notification to say that food business operators may use the term "curd" along with any other prevalent common name in a regional language.
Disposing of a PIL filed by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, the SC on Wednesday said it was within Parliament's exclusive domain to enact uniform marriage, divorce, adoption, and succession laws applicable to all religious communities.
While announcing bypolls to the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat and four assembly seats on Wednesday, the Election Commission held back on the Wayanad LS seat, saying it would rather wait for the aggrieved party (Congress' Rahul Gandhi, who stands disqualified as MP) to avail himself of judicial remedy in the 30 days given by the court.
Two months after the order of the Kerala high court's January 25 order staying P P Mohammad Faizal's conviction, the Lok Sabha secretariat restored the membership of the disqualified Lakshadweep MP (of NCP) - just hours before the Supreme Court was set to take up his petition against the delay.
The August 2022 order by NGT was in an application filed by a south Mumbai resident Dileep Nevatia who had sought orders to direct the government and civic administration to “maintain air and noise quality level for construction of the Coastal Road (South) project within limits’’ specified under the Noise Pollution rules.
Punjab police launched a late-night search Tuesday for fugitive Khalistan supporter Amritpal Singh in and around Marnaian Kalan village of Hoshiarpur after an abandoned Innova was found near a gurdwara. A team of the counterintelligence wing had chased the Innova carrying three people. One of whom is suspected to be Amritpal.
Respect for the rule of law and judicial independence is the cornerstone of any democracy, the US has said, adding that it is watching Rahul Gandhi's court case that resulted in his disqualification from the Lok Sabha.
Umesh's mother Shanti Devi said she had "full faith" in the country's judiciary, but expressed apprehension that Atiq "can do anything even from jail". "I request the court to award him capital punishment for getting my son killed," she said, alluding to the case pertaining to her son's murder.
The petitioner, MP leader of the opposition Govind Singh, alleged that the unbridled power given to the agency was being misused to silence opposition leaders across the country.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat has cancelled the government accommodation to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and he is now allowed to retain 12 Tughlak Lane bungalow till April 22. The allotment of the bungalow "shall deem to have been cancelled from April 24, 2023", according to the letter issued to Gandhi on Monday.
The government is all set to allow drug companies an increase in line with the change in the annual Wholesale Price Index (WPI). The annual change in WPI, as notified by the government, works out to 12.12% during 2022, the drug prices regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) said on Monday.
The government is considering a proposal to build 37 more roads with a cumulative length of 875 km along the India-China border. This Rs 13,000 crore work has been proposed under the India-China Border Roads (ICBR) programme. Nearly 70% of these roads under ICBR-III would be built in Arunachal Pradesh, as per the proposal.
In view of the current weather conditions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday advised farmers to postpone harvesting of matured crops in Jammu, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, and keep already-harvested produce in safe places or cover them in the field with tarpaulin sheets.
While the fines collected through e-challans by the traffic and transport rule enforcement agencies across states have increased 450% in the past three-and-a-half years since the penalties were hiked, there has been barely 3% decline in road deaths during this period. Experts said better and scientific enforcement of rules is key to reducing road crashes and fatalities rather than focusing on slapping challans and fines.
The Sanatan Sanstha has not been declared a banned or a terrorist organisation, said the Bombay high court on Friday while granting bail to two of its members who are accused in the 2018 Nalasopara arms haul case. Justices Sunil Shukre and Kamal Khata on Thursday allowed appeals by Liladhar alias Vijay Lodhi and Pratap Hajra who were refused bail by a special court trying them for offences, including under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The special cell of Delhi Police has filed an FIR and begun investigation into the March 19 attack on the Indian high commission in London. The case was registered on the orders of the Union home ministry, which acted on a report from the ministry of external affairs.
Reversing its 12-year-old ruling that mere membership of proscribed organisations, without inciting or indulging in violence, is not an offence under UAPA, the Supreme Court on Friday said a person continuing to be a member of an outfit, despite knowing it is banned, would risk prosecution and a jail term of two years.
Congress and 13 other parties jointly filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Friday accusing the NDA government of misusing CBI and ED to raid, harass and arrest political opponents to stifle dissent, and requested the court to lay down pre- and post-arrest guidelines for the probe agencies.
Rahul Gandhi was on Friday disqualified as an MP from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in compliance with the Surat trial court order, which had on Thursday convicted him in a criminal defamation case and sentenced him to two years, in a development which escalated BJP's confronation with Congress and widened its arc with many others in the opposition rallying for the Congress leader.
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification has come into “immediate and automatic” effect upon his conviction and sentencing despite the grant of bail and suspension of his sentence for a month, say lawyers who have closely worked with EC on such cases. The only scenario where the disqualification shall not take effect is if the trial court itself or an appellant court stays his conviction as well as sentence or the appellant court reduces the quantum of his sentence.
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Appropriation Bill in less than nine minutes, without any discussion in the House, paving the way for the Centre to spend over Rs 45 lakh crore in the next financial year. The proceedings of the House were conducted amid din, with PM Modi, defence minister Rajnath Singh and other ministers in attendance, and opposition members shouting slogans of “Modi-Adani Bhai Bhai” while demanding a JPC on the Adani issue.
Two inebriated flyers were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly creating a ruckus and hurling abuses at the crew and co-passengers on board an IndiGo Dubai-Mumbai flight. Sahar police, who registered an FIR on the airline staff’s complaint, said John G Dsouza (49) from Nalasopara and Dattatray Bapardekar (47) from Manbet in Kolhapur told them that they had downed half a bottle of alcohol each mid-air to celebrate their return to India after a year of working in Dubai.
CBI has asked the Commission for Control of Interpol’s Files (CCF) for restoration of Red Notice against Mehul Choksi wanted in bank fraud cases to the tune of over Rs 13,900 crores. The agency said the CBI had taken up the “serious shortcomings, procedural violations, over reach of mandate and mistakes committed by CCF” in the manner of reaching this unfounded and perfunctory decision.
India needs to develop “both offensive and defensive space capabilities to safeguard our assets”, Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari said on Tuesday, in the backdrop of China furiously building and deploying anti-satellite weapons from direct ascent missiles and co-orbital killers to directed-energy laser weapons and electronic jammers.
Isro will launch the second batch of 36 satellites belonging to OneWeb with its rocket LVM3 from Sriharikota on Sunday. If the launch is successful, the Bharti Enterprise-backed UK-based company will complete its constellation of over 600 low-earth-orbit satellites in space, paving the way to offer space-based broadband internet services to every corner of the world.
Punjab Police Monday invoked the National Security Act (NSA) against five arrested associates of fugitive Khalistan sympathiser and self-proclaimed preacher Amritpal Singh, who eluded capture for the third successive day even as his uncle Harjit Singh — one of those booked under the stringent law — and aide Harpreet Singh surrendered in Jalandhar.
Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
