New Delhi: Across several CRPF camps in Maoist-infested Bihar and Jharkhand, groups of trained commandos are spending their days as gardeners and sentries. Their commanders have lost trust in them after they – a group of 59 rookies from the elite Combat Battalion for Resolute Action – “deserted” the force in February while returning from […]
Chandigarh: Despite all Constitutional guarantees of India being a sovereign socialist, secular, democratic republic, the minority sections in India — Dalits, creative artists, writers, rationalists and sensitive, enlightened citizens — are all feeling suffocated, insecure and less-than-equal citizens of India since the communal ideology has come into power at the Centre and some big Indian […]
New Delhi :The Delhi High Court has said there is an urgent need for a framework, preferably a law, to rehabilitate victims of wrongful prosecution and imprisonment. A bench of justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta noted that at present there was no statutory or legal scheme in the country to compensate those who […]
New Delhi, Dec 1 : The Delhi High Court today asked ‘ journalist’ Arnab Goswami and his Republic TV to respect the Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s “right to silence”, but did not restrain them from airing news or debate on Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death case . Justice Manmohan said the right to air […]
Chennai, Nov 9: (PTI) Income Tax sleuths carried out simultaneous multi-city raids on 187 premises including those linked to sidelined AIADMK leaders V K Sasikala and her nephew T T V Dhinakaran and Tamil television channel Jaya TV over suspected tax evasion. Dhinakaran, the deposed AIADMK deputy general secretary, condemned as a “conspiracy” the searches […]
New Delhi, Nov. 8: The Central Bureau of Investigation has apprehended a Class XI student in connection with the killing of a seven-year-old schoolboy in Gurgaon’s Ryan International School, the agency said on Wednesday. The Class XI student, who was apprehended late on Tuesday night, allegedly committed the crime as he wanted to get a […]
New Delhi: Entire Delhi is unauthorised, an anguished High Court remarked today ( November 7) while hearing a plea regarding the ongoing demolition at Kathputli colony in west Delhi. The observation was made by a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar when an NGO representing some residents of the […]
The whole propaganda unleashed by the BJP is reflective of the pattern of their politics, says Ram Puniyani, writer and peace activist. Are the leaders of India’s ‘new dispensation on a spree to undermine the values of the Constitution of India? What is pseudo-patriotism and pseudo-nationalism? Earlier this year, BJP President Amit Shah had launched […]
The stupid things that grown people do for ‘love’ or rejection! This businessmen put an entire plane load of passengers into inconvenience and trouble because of his stupid prank. A Mumbai businessman was arrested on Monday for carrying out a hijack threat on an early morning Mumbai-Delhi Jet Airways flight. The flight was diverted to […]
The government has turned down Uttarakhand cadre IPS officer Anju Gupta’s proposal for granting permanent secondment in the Research and Analysis Wing on the grounds that already a large number of officers at the joint secretary-level posted in the external intelligence agency have been granted extension. Gupta, earlier in the Uttar Pradesh cadre, was among […]
Looking for a true Indian patriot, a real ‘desh-bhakt’? Meet Ayub Ahmed, from Mysore (Mysuru) in Karnataka. He is also known as ‘Body Miyan’, and has been voluntarily burying unidentified and unclaimed corpses for the past 19 years. Shifting unidentified and unclaimed bodies is certainly no enviable work, but to do this as an act […]
Last week, the Kerala High Court severely criticized the recent trend of terming inter-religious marriages as ‘Love Jihad’. The court made these observations in its verdict passed on the petition filed by Anees Hameed seeking to release his Hindu wife Sruthi from the illegal custody of her father. A Division Bench of the Kerala High […]
