The Supreme Court on Friday said it will decide on a plea for an early hearing of appeals challenging the Allahabad High Court order directing the splitting of the disputed site at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. "We will take a decision on it," said a bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud as BJP Rajya Sabha member Subram...
A youth hit by a bullet allegedly fired by the Army on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir succumbed to his injuries, police sources said. Tanveer Ahmad was hit in Beerwah town in Badgam district after a stone pelting mob attacked an Army patrol. He was rushed to a hospital in a critical condition where he died, the sources said. ...
A total of 4,472 pilgrims from the northeastern states are set to go to Saudi Arabia for Haj this year, it was announced on Friday. Haj Committee chairman Nekibur Zaman said the first batch would leave Guwahati on July 24 for Medina. The pilgrimage would continue till July 31. "Daily 600 pilgrims will travel to Medina from Guwahati in two batches. F...
The Goa Assembly on Friday passed a motion congratulating Ram Nath Kovind on his election as the next President of India, with Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar claiming that "Goa is lucky for everyone". Parrikar said that when Kovind, a native of Uttar Pradesh, came to Goa to campaign for the election he informed National Democratic Alliance legislators that ...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed a fresh supplementary chargesheet against the chartered accountant of RJD chief Lalu Prasad's daughter Misa Bharti in connection with an alleged money laundering case, court sources said on Friday. The supplementary chargesheet was filed before the Special Judge Naresh Kumar Malhotra, who listed the m...
The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it does not support the violence unleashed by vigilante groups in the name of cow protection. Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar told a bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar: "We don't support the violence in the name of Gau Raksha." But t...
New Delhi, July 21 Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government's policies for the volatile situation in Jammu and Kashmir. "I have been saying this for a long time that Modiji and the NDA policies have set Jammu and Kashmir on fire," Gandhi told reporters here. "It is being said that talks shou...
An official probe began on Friday into an alleged medical college scam involving...
All 38 MLAs in the Goa assembly on Friday voted for the lone Rajya Sabha seat which...
The Islamabad High Court has given intelligence agencies five days to produce an...
