NEW DELHI: Arguments extending over 210 minutes before a Supreme Court vacation bench on June 23, 1975, challenging an 11-day-old verdict of Allahabad HC annulling then PM Indira Gandhi‘s election from Rae Bareli, and Justice V R Krishna Iyer’s June 24 ‘conditional stay’ to keep her afloat as PM, led to imposition of Emergency on…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday said the country is under “undeclared emergency” for the last 11 years, and PM Narendra Modi is orchestrating a “drama” about democracy and the Constitution, as well as raking up Emergency 50 years later to divert attention from his “governance failures and capture of institutions”.There is no freedom…
BJP on Wednesday lashed out at Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge over his remarks against PM Modi, saying the opposition party is rattled by the observance of ‘Samvidhan Hatya Diwas’ as it has brought back memories of atrocities committed by the Indira Gandhi govt during Emergency.Saying history should never be forgotten and lessons should be learnt…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday granted three-month furlough to Sukhdev Pehalwan, convicted in the Nitish Katara murder case, after noting that he had already spent 20 years in jail against his sentence of life imprisonment for 20 years without remission.As the legal issue is still pending before the SC on whether a prisoner, who…
NEW DELHI: Covert activities, innovative tactics and code words for secret meetings like ‘Chandan ka Karyakram’ – the unconventional methods used by a young RSS pracharak, and now PM, during Emergency had left many surprised, even authorities.‘The Emergency Diaries – Years that Forged a Leader’, published by BlueKraft, chronicles Modi’s role after speaking to several…
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday passed a resolution to commemorate and honour the “sacrifices of countless individuals who valiantly resisted the Emergency” and its attempt to subvert the spirit of the Constitution. It also paid tributes to those who stood up against its “unimaginable horrors”, I&B minister Ashwini…
LUCKNOW: Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha, whose verdict on June 12, 1975, disqualifying then PM Indira Gandhi, sparked a chain of events culminating in a 21-month-long Emergency, never “regretted” his decision.“My father neither regretted delivering the judgment, for he did what was right. For him it was yet another case; he decided on merit and facts,” said…
File photo: Uttarakhand CM Dhami (Picture credit: ANI) DEHRADUN: To include Uttarakhand among the leading states of the country, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has taken up the task of all-around development of the remote villages of the state.CM Dhami directed the officers of the Indian Administrative Service to adopt the villages where they started…
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan will formally convey to governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar the state govt’s strong objection to the use of a Bharat Mata portrait, which it links to RSS, at official events hosted at Raj Bhavan, the state cabinet decided on Wednesday. tnn Source link
Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge (File photos) NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said his party believes in “country first” but some people believe in “Modi first”, in a sharp reply to questions about party MP Shashi Tharoor’s article praising the PM over global outreach on Operation Sindoor. But the jibe was met with an…