Shiv Sena UBT “will not” participate in JPC on 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill New Delhi: With Sena UBT becoming the fourth opposition party to announce a boycott of the JPC on the controversial bills about dismissal of jailed ministers and CMs, Congress is mulling the way forward on the parliamentary panel. While Sena UBT announced…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday called CBI probes “a gallery show right now” while turning down a plea for an investigation by the central agency into an East Midnapore murder in July. It, instead, said it would hand over the probe to the Bengal CID after taking the case out of the local…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday stayed proceedings on two FIRs lodged by Maharashtra Police against psephologist Sanjay Kumar, who set off a political slugfest by his Aug 17 social media posts claiming irregular increase or decrease in voters in state constituencies but a day later deleted them with an apology.Giving a long description of…
New Delhi: Marks obtained, grades and answer sheets are “personal information” protected under the exemption clause of the Right to Information Act, Delhi high court held Monday as it set aside CIC orders to disclose details of PM Modi’s bachelors degree from DU, reports Abhinav Garg. HC drew a distinction between “something which is of…
New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday took on opposition parties for opposing the constitutional amendment bill which seeks to provide for removal of PM, CMs and ministers if they have spent 30 days behind bars or in detention, saying they are calling for govts to be run from jail.Shah said opposition parties’…
NEW DELHI: Quashing a National Green Tribunal order that had directed ED to examine a matter against a polluting company, which was also slapped a fine of Rs 50 crore, the Supreme Court has observed that the tribunal devoted 145 pages to writing a ruling which was in violation of law and beyond its jurisdiction,…
Bombay high court chief justice (CJ) Alok Aradhe and Patna high court CJ Vipul M Pancholi NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court’s five-judge collegium led by CJI B R Gavai on Monday recommended to the govt to appoint Bombay high court chief justice (CJ) Alok Aradhe and Patna high court CJ Vipul M Pancholi as SC…
AHMEDABAD: Just two days ahead of the Aug 27 deadline for US President Donald Trump’s proposed 50% tariffs on Indian goods, PM Narendra Modi on Monday underlined the challenge of “self-centred economic policies” and called on citizens and businesses to embrace Swadeshi – urging them to buy and sell only ‘Made in India’ products to…
NEW DELHI: In a first remark by a senior govt leader since Jadgeep Dhankhar’s resignation as Vice-President on July 21, home minister Amit Shah on Monday said the former VP quit due to health issues and dismissed the opposition’s claims that he was under “house arrest”.“Dhankhar sahab’s resignation letter is quite clear. He has cited…
