TARN TARAN: A court in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district sentenced Manjinder Singh Lalpura, AAP MLA from Khadoor Sahib, to four years in prison in a 12-year-old case of assault and molestation of a Dalit woman.On Wednesday, the court had convicted 11 people, including six policemen, in the case. Pronouncing the sentence on Friday, additional sessions…
GVL Narasimha Rao NEW DELHI: Citing historical poll data, BJP Friday asserted that Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of “vote chori” is baseless, and Congress’s electoral graph has been declining since 1984, when it last won a LS majority, hitting rock bottom in 2014.BJP neta GVL Narasimha Rao, a former party MP and poll analyst, said that…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain BJP MPKangana Ranaut‘s plea to quash the defamation case lodged against her for a tweet related to the 2020-21 farmers protest and asked her to fight the case in trial court.Though Ranaut’s lawyer tried to impress upon the court that it was a simple retweet that…
NEW DELHI: Canada’s high commissioner-designate Christopher Cooter arrived in India on Thursday, amid efforts by both sides to rebuild the relationship after ties nosedived over the killing of a Sikh separatist in 2023. India and Canada had recently announced the names of their respective high commissioners, following the understanding reached between PM Narendra Modi and…
NEW DELHI: India and the European Union Friday said that they are working intensely to finalise the trade deal by year-end, with commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal suggesting that some strategic elements may be part of the overall arrangement in the coming months.“We’ve been negotiating this for quite some time, but I can tell…
PM at an international conference on the Gyan Bharatam Mission on Friday NEW DELHI: PM Modi on Thursday highlighted that India was home to the largest collection of manuscripts, and said it was a tribute to “the dedication of our ancestors towards knowledge, science, reading and learning”.He said while lakhs of manuscripts were lost due…
NEW DELHI/PATNA: As a political row erupted on Friday after Bihar Congress shared an AI-generated video on X, depicting PM Narendra Modi and his late mother Heeraben Modi, BJP and its allies lashed out at Congress, calling it “shameful”, and wondering how low the party would stoop to target Modi.In its attempt to target the…
NEW DELHI: Underscoring that judicial process should not become itself a punishment for the accused, Supreme Court on Friday said that courts should “take the side of liberty” and grant bail if there was a chance of the accused getting acquitted in the case.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan upheld a…
HASSAN: Eight people died and 25 suffered grievous injuries when a speeding truck ploughed through a Ganesh immersion procession in Mosalehosahalli in Karnataka’s Hassan district on Friday. The death toll was likely to rise as several of those injured were critical, officials said.Villagers from Mosalehosahalli were holding the procession on one side of the four-laned…
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Sebi-Sahara account, where the Sahara group had deposited nearly Rs 25,000 crore on SC orders after detection of fraud by its group companies, to release an additional Rs 5,000 crore to Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS) for reimbursement of part of amounts deposited by people defrauded by…