Averse to further exacerbating inter-religious tensions in the wake of discovery of a purported 'shivling' inside Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque that the Muslim side described as part of a fountain, the Supreme Court accepted Friday the joint suggestion of the Centre and the UP government to defer carbon-dating of the structure as directed by the Allahabad high court a week ago.
Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and senior advocate Kalpathy Venkataraman Viswanathan on Friday took oath as Supreme Court judges on Friday, the last working day of the court before summer recess, as the collegium led by CJI D Y Chandrachud and the Union government completed the process of appointment in jet speed.
In a big, dramatic move, the Centre promulgated an ordinance to nullify the recent Supreme Court order that had given Delhi government control over officers dealing with subjects other than public order, police and land, and assigned the superintending jurisdiction over the entire officer cadre in the National Capital Territory to the lieutenant governor.
Congress high command on Friday authorised Karnataka CM-elect Siddaramaiah and his would-be deputy D K Shivakumar to pick 10 faces each for a possible 29 to 30-member ministry, setting the template for the functioning of the new state government that will be sworn in Saturday in the presence of the party brass, CMs from four UPA allies and a representative of newfound friend TMC.
The breakfast table stacked with idli-dosa-sambar, and Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar digging into the rice dishes, with host K C Venugopal and Randeep Surjewala stealing glances at their guests, summed up the four-day-long breathless drama to select the chief minister of Karnataka.
Actor SRK's son Aryan and his friend Arbaaz Merchant were named as accused in the 2021 Cordelia cruise drug bust case at last moment by the NCB-Mumbai, then led by Sameer Wankhede, said an affidavit filed by IPS officer Gnyaneshwar Singh who had supervised the probe.Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
