NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court’s prima facie endorsement of non-arbitrariness of provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, was principally based on a 100-year history of mismanagement and misappropriation of sprawling properties and valuable assets donated for charity by benevolent Muslims and the remedial regulations enacted since 1923.A bench of CJI B R Gavai and…
NEW DELHI: Welcoming SC’s negative vote on three key provisions of the Waqf Act as putting a hold on BJP’s “mischievous intentions”, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge accused the governing party of bulldozing a “divisive law” to inflame communal passions and “reopen issues that India had long settled”. Calling the upholding of deletion of “waqf by…
Baaghi 4, starring Tiger Shroff and Sanjay Dutt, struggles at the box office, earning just Rs 0.75 crore on Day 11. Total collections reached Rs 50.40 crore after two weeks. Tiger Shroff’s promotional event at Gaiety Galaxy, where he displayed his physique, went viral. The film, directed by A. Harsha, also stars Sonam Bajwa and…
CHENNAI: The law ministry on Monday notified the appointment of Justice M Sundar of Madras high court as the chief justice (CJ) of Manipur high court. In another order, Justice Soumen Sen of Calcutta high court has been appointed as the acting chief justice of that HC.Justice Sundar takes charge from incumbent chief justice Kempaiah…
KOLKATA: Bengal police arrested a BSF jawan and his aide from Lucknow Sunday for allegedly killing a former CRPF jawan, identified as Lalit Mohan Adhikary of Nandigram in East Midnapore, whose body was found with his throat slit in North 24 Parganas district’s Ashoknagar last month, reports Sanjib Chakraborty. On Monday, police produced the accused…
PUNE/NAVI MUBAI: Probe into the abduction of a heavy vehicle’s helper by an SUV driver during a road rage incident in Navi Mumbai on Saturday found that dismissed IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s father, Dilip Khedkar, a retired state govt officer, was in the SUV, police said. Both he and his chauffeur have absconded in the…
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said a thorough probe into land deals, murders, fake encounters and involvement of IPS officers in the extortion and blackmailing rackets will prove that the BJP is not functioning as a party but rather as a gang.Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, he mentioned the arrest of…
BHOPAL: In the first recorded clash between a leopard and a cheetah since the launch of Project Cheetah in MP in 2022, a 20-month-old female cheetah was found dead at Kuno National Park Monday evening. The incident comes just as India’s ambitious cheetah reintroduction programme enters its third year this Wednesday.Forest officials said the carcass…
AMRITSAR/GURDASPUR: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi toured several flood-ravaged villages in Amritsar and Gurdaspur districts Monday. His visit came six days after PM Modi dropped by flood-affected areas of Punjab.Rahul chose to keep the media at bay throughout. He later posted on X: “The floods have caused severe devastation in Punjab. I met villagers in Ghonewal…
