File photo of former Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Manipur‘s former chief minister N Biren Singh on Saturday said that efforts are under way to set up a popular government, while emphasising that Bharatiya Janata Party is working towards the restoration of peace in the state. As Manipur has…
NEW DELHI: The alleged gang-rape of a law student in Kolkata has sent shockwaves across the country, bringing back the haunting memories of RG Kar rape and murder case. The TMC government in the state came under fire after harrowing details of the incident emerged, with one of the accused being a former Trinamool Chhatra…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order of the Itanagar bench of Gauhati HC asking the Centre to deposit 50% of Rs 418 crore compensation, which the govt alleged was vitiated by forgery, for acquisition of 537 acres of land for defence projects in remote Indo-China border areas of Arunachal Pradesh.Appearing for…
NEW DELHI: : Importance of toilets can be best assessed by the fact that a few months delay in construction of a toilet block led to Bombay High Court initiating contempt proceedings against a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation engineer and in turn the matter rolling up to the Supreme Court on Friday.The Bombay HC on Oct…
Tejashwi Yadav (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: RJD leader and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of influencing the Election Commission (EC) ahead of the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. He alleged that the Prime Minister has instructed the poll body to…
Sambit Patra held press conference slamming TMC over the rape case NEW DELHI: BJP on Saturday took a jab at the TMC government in the wake of the reported gangrape case at the private law college in Kolkata. National spokesperson Sambit Patra, in a press conference, pointed to the reported connection of the main accused…
Vice-President Jadgeep Dhankhar NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday called the Preamble as the ‘soul of the Constitution’ and hit out at the Indira Gandhi-led government for ‘changing something which is not changeable and alterable.‘Speaking at a book launch event, Dhankhar acknowledged that India was the only country where the Preamble had been…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI) over its voter verification drive in Bihar and West Bengal, claiming it resembled a covert attempt to introduce the National Register of Citizens (NRC) through the back door. “The EC is trying to bring the NRC in…
NEW DELHI: A female law student was allegedly gangraped on her college campus in South Kolkata’s Kasba, sparking citywide outrage. Coming nearly a year after the RG Kar case, the incident has reignited women’s safety concerns and led to a political slugfest between ruling TMC and its main opposition party – BJP in state.BJP leader…
NEW DELHI: Nearly a year after the shocking rape and murder of a student at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, city witnessed another disturbing case. Speaking on the incident, the RG Kar victim’s father expressed anger over the repeated crimes, blamed the Mamata Banerjee-led state government, and demanded strict punishment for the accused.A female…