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BJP insulting people without knowing rea | New Delhi, Nov 17 (TIWN) The Congress on Saturday slammed the BJP over an Union minister's statement rejecting opposition's charge of economic slowdown and said the party was insulting the people without knowing the reality of the country. | 17-Nov-2019 |
Goa top cop Pranab Nanda dies of cardiac | New Delhi, Nov 16 (TIWN) Pranab Nanda, one of country's most decorated police officers, who spent two decades in building India's intelligence set-up and enhancing its capability to meet the new emerging challenges, passed away on Friday night. | 16-Nov-2019 |
Delhi: Most polluted city in the world | New Delhi, Nov 15 (TIWN) Delhi has earned the dubious distinction of becoming the most polluted major city in the world with an air quality index (AQI) of 527 on Friday, as per data by Air Visual on the World AQI rankings. | 15-Nov-2019 |
Miffed UP Congress veterans to meet Soni | New Delhi, Nov 15 (TIWN) Senior Congress leaders in Uttar Pradesh are seemingly unhappy with being sidelined in state politics and will talk to party interim President Sonia Gandhi and discuss the issue. | 15-Nov-2019 |
Decision on Odd-Even extension on Monday | New Delhi, Nov 15 (TIWN) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said the government will take a decision on extension of the Odd-Even scheme on Monday. | 15-Nov-2019 |
MHA hones replies on lynching law in win | New Delhi, Nov 15 (TIWN) The law on lynching, use of drones to combat terrorist activities and crime against women and minor girls are among the "tentative" list of six starred questions to which the Union Home Ministry will respond in the winter session of Parliament begining Monday next week. | 15-Nov-2019 |
SFI sweeps Presidency University student | Kolkata, Nov 15 (TIWN) Ending a nine-year wait, the Students Federation of India (SFI), affiliated to the Communist Party of India-Marxist, has swept the elections to the Students Council in Presidency University. | 15-Nov-2019 |
Rafale verdict: Congress terms BJP jubil | Agartala, Nov 14 (TIWN): Hours after the Supreme Court gave a clean chit for the second time to the Narendra Modi government on the purchase of 36 fully loaded Rafale fighter jets from French company Dassault Aviation, the Congress said that the court order has "paved way for a criminal probe" in the Rafale deal. | 14-Nov-2019 |
SC defers hearing on pleas over Article | New Delhi, Nov 14 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred the hearing on the pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370 which had granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. | 14-Nov-2019 |
Stubble burning to abate as wheat sowing | New Delhi, Nov 14 (TIWN) While an air pollution emergency is playing out in Delhi NCR, stubble burning in Punjab is likely to abate by the end of the month as wheat sowing has already covered 60 per cent of the area. | 14-Nov-2019 |
Congress must apologise over Rafale accu | New Delhi, Nov 14 (TIWN) The BJP on Thursday demanded that the Congress party must apologise for alleging corruption in the Rafale deal in the wake of the Supreme Court dismissing a review petition seeking a probe into the fighter jet deal. | 14-Nov-2019 |
SC refers Sabarimala issue to larger 7-j | New Delhi, Nov 14 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Thursday referred the issue of entry of women into Sabarimala temple and other religious places to a larger seven-judge bench. | 14-Nov-2019 |
Chidambaram's judicial custody extended | New Delhi, Nov 13 (TIWN) A Delhi Court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the money laundering case relating to INX Media till November 27. | 13-Nov-2019 |
In JNU 'rollback', only BPL students to | New Delhi, Nov 13 (TIWN) After announcing "major rollback" in the hostel fee and other stipulations, it turns out the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration has found a way to not capitulate before protesting students while accepting some of the demands. | 13-Nov-2019 |
SC says Chief Justice Office under RTI A | New Delhi, Nov 13 (TIWN) The office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) is covered by the Right to Information (RTI) Act since it is a public authority, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a landmark judgement as it answered the question "how transparent is transparent enough." | 13-Nov-2019 |
Police use batons, tear gas on BJP prote | Kolkata, Nov 13 (TIWN) Police made a baton charge, lobbed tear gas shells and used water cannons to disperse hundreds of belligerent BJP youth wing leaders who tried to march to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters on Wednesday protesting against a host of issues including the civic body's failure to control the Dengue menace in the city. | 13-Nov-2019 |
Decision to Disqualify Karnataka MLAs up | NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today announced its decision on the 17 Karnataka rebel MLAs whose revolt led to the collapse of the Janata Dal Secular-Congress coalition government and the subsequent takeover of the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP government. | 13-Nov-2019 |
CJI under RTI: CJI being on bench is no | New Delhi, Nov 12 (TIWN) Legal experts say the Chief Justice pronouncing the judgement on bringing the office of Chief Justice under the RTI Act is not an issue, and that it is, instead, a process connected with adjudication. | 12-Nov-2019 |
Shiv Sena moves SC against guv's decisio | New Delhi, Nov 12 (TIWN) : The Shiv Sena on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court against the Maharashtra Governor's decision not to extend the 24-hour time period given to the party to show its majority in order to form the government. | 12-Nov-2019 |
Union Cabinet Recommends President's Rul | NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, Nov 12 (TIWN): The Union Cabinet on Tuesday recommended President's rule in Maharashtra even as top leaders from the NCP, Congress and Shiv Sena were holding a flurry of consultations in a bid to tot up the numbers and resolve the impasse over government formation in the state. | 12-Nov-2019 |
Withdraw Babri cases: Hindu Mahasabha wr | New Delhi, Nov 12 (TIWN) Just 72 hours after the Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya title suit dispute, Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding criminal cases against Ker Sevaks for bringing down the Babri Masjid, be withdrawn. The organisation has also demanded 'martyr' status for Kar Sevaks killed in 1992 and during other endeavours for kar seva. | 12-Nov-2019 |
NIA files chargesheet against 8 in Guwah | New Delhi, Nov 11 (TIWN) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charged eight people, including an ULFA operative for lobbing a grenade at the security personnel in Assam's Guwahati in May this year. | 11-Nov-2019 |
Hyderabad train crash: Loco pilot rescue | Hyderabad, Nov 11 (TIWN) After eight hours of gruelling efforts, rescue workers pulled out the loco pilot alive from the mangled motorman cabin of a local train, which rammed into a stationary express train at Kachiguda railway station here on Monday, injuring 16 passengers. | 11-Nov-2019 |
Ayodhya verdict deeply disappointing, sa | Malappuram (Kerala), Nov 11 (TIWN) The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the second biggest ally of the Congress-led United Democratic Front, on Monday called the Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya as "deeply disappointing". | 11-Nov-2019 |
Cong top brass to discuss backing Sena-l | New Delhi, Nov 11 (TIWN) The Congress has called a meeting of its top leaders on Monday to deliberate upon offering support to a Shiv Sena-led government in Maharashtra and its own role in that. | 10-Nov-2019 |
Former Chief Election Commissioner T.N. | Chennai, Nov 11 (TIWN) Former Election Commissioner T.N. Seshan, who was known for strict implementation of electoral laws and rules to clean up Indian elections, passed away at his residence here on Sunday following cardiac arrest, family sources said. He was 86. | 10-Nov-2019 |
Modi Govt Finally Releases Data on Farme | New Delhi, Nov 10 (The Quint): After an inordinate delay of more than two years, the Modi government has finally released the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data on farmer suicides in 2016. | 10-Nov-2019 |
These 2 factors will decide BJP's Maha d | New Delhi, Nov 10 (TIWN) The Bharatiya Janata Party is weighing two options as it called core committee meeting in Maharashtra - to avail Governor's offer and go to floor test with 105 MLAs or to decline the offer and be ready to sit in opposition in spite of being the single largest party. The BJP is weighing which option will place it in a better position to put Sena in a spot. | 10-Nov-2019 |
Congress says options 'open' on Maharash | Jaipur, Nov 10 (TIWN) Congress in-charge in Maharashtra Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday held a meeting with the party's 44 MLAs, who are lodged in a Jaipur resort, to find out their views on the state's current political situation. | 10-Nov-2019 |
If Babri Masjid illegal, why is Advani b | Hyderabad, Nov 10 (TIWN) If Babri Masjid was illegal, then why Advani is being tried for its demolition and if it was legal then why Advani is getting the land, asked All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi. | 10-Nov-2019 |
Cyclone Bulbul: Kolkata Airport to suspe | New Delhi/Kolkata, Nov 9 (TIWN) The Airport Authority of India (AAI) on Saturady has said it will suspend operations at the Kolkata airport, owing to the expected landfall of Cyclone Bulbul, as a precautionary measure. | 09-Nov-2019 |
Babri demolition guilty should be brough | New Delhi, Nov 10 (TIWN) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) raised the bogey of the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992, following the Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya dispute on Saturday, saying that those guilty of the "illegal act" should be brought to book as soon as possible. | 10-Nov-2019 |
Will file review petition, Jilani on Ayo | New Delhi/Kolkata, Nov 9 (TIWN) The Airport Authority of India (AAI) on Saturady has said it will suspend operations at the Kolkata airport, owing to the expected landfall of Cyclone Bulbul, as a precautionary measure. | 09-Nov-2019 |
SC directs Centre to form trust in 3 mon | New Delhi, Nov 9 (TIWN) In a historic judgement in the sensitive Ayodhya land dispute case, the Supreme Court on Saturday directed the Centre to form within three months a trust which will build a temple at the disputed site. | 09-Nov-2019 |
Nyas to get disputed site, Muslims 5 acr | NEW DELHI, Nov 9 (TIWN): Delivering a historic verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi–Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Saturday decided unanimously that Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas would get the disputed 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya for building a temple, while the Muslim side would be given 5 acres of alternative land elsewhere in Ayodhya to build a mosque. | 09-Nov-2019 |
Ayodhya verdict: Schools, colleges shut | Bengaluru, Nov 9 (TIWN) Security has been tightened across the city and schools and colleges would remain shut on Saturday in view of the Supreme Court's verdict on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case in Ayodhya, a top police officer said on Friday. | 08-Nov-2019 |
SPG withdrawal: Congress may move court | New Delhi, Nov 8 (TIWN) Withdrawal of SPG cover to the Gandhi family has made the Congress angry, with the party alleging the Gandhis are being targeted by the Prime Minister and Home Minister. The Congress, which has termed the move as "sinister and vindictive politics", may take legal recourse in the matter, said sources. | 08-Nov-2019 |
INX Media case: HC reserves order on PC' | New Delhi, Nov 8 (TIWN) The Delhi High Court on Friday reserved its order on the regular bail plea filed by former finance minister P Chidambram in the ED case relating to INX Media. | 08-Nov-2019 |
Manjhi leaves Grand Alliance ahead of Jh | Patna, Nov 8 (TIWN) Bihar's former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Friday announced that his party, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM), will go it alone in the upcoming Jharkhand Assembly elections and the Bihar Assembly elections next year. | 08-Nov-2019 |
BJP-Sena government in Maharashtra's int | Mumbai, Nov 8 (TIWN) Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said that an alliance of like-minded Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena for the government would be in the interests of Maharashtra. | 08-Nov-2019 |
Cyclone Bulbul: Odisha puts coastal dist | Bhubaneswar, Nov 8 (TIWN) The Odisha government has put the coastal districts on alert as the wind speed and rainfall will gradually increase under the impact of severe cyclonic storm Bulbul, said Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Pradeep Jena on Friday. | 08-Nov-2019 |
No one will be thrown out of India: RSS | New Delhi, Nov 7 (TIWN) Senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar has called for a National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the whole of India, not just in one state, claiming that several countries have adopted this exercise to sift out foreigners from original inhabitants. He spoke exclusively to IANS. | 07-Nov-2019 |
Shah assures Sonowal on impact of Naga t | Guwahati, Nov 7 (TIWN) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday assured Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal that nothing would be done which goes against the interests of Assam and its people as far as the Naga talks are concerned. | 07-Nov-2019 |
SC to hear Kureshi's appointment plea ne | New Delhi, Nov 7 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the matter related to the elevation of Justice Akil Kureshi, who is currently serving as a Judge of the Bombay High Court, for November 13. | 07-Nov-2019 |
Vijayan refuses CBI probe into PSC goof | Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 7 (TIWN) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday refused the Congress-led opposition's demand of a CBI probe into the functioning of affairs at the state Public Service Commission (PSC). | 07-Nov-2019 |
India's corporate femme fatale shatters | New Delhi, Nov 7 (TIWN) The twisted route of shady dealings and corporate rip off by femme fatale in India has shattered many myths. | 07-Nov-2019 |
'Daughter' of jailed Dera chief gets bai | Panchkula, Nov 6 (TIWN) A court on Wednesday granted bail to Honeypreet Insan, a close aide and adopted daughter of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, in a case of violence in Haryana's Panchkula in 2017 after the self-styled godman's sentence. | 06-Nov-2019 |
Priyanka takes a dig at Modi on layoffs | New Delhi, Nov 6 (TIWN) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "all is well" remark, saying such comments made abroad do not set things right as there are no reports of increase in employment coming from anywhere in the country. | 06-Nov-2019 |
Losing weight is not illness, SC tells S | New Delhi, Nov 6 (TIWN) A bench headed by Chief Justice-designate S.A. Bobde, while hearing a bail plea of former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar convicted in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, said "losing weight does not mean illness..what is more important is that you should be healthy". | 06-Nov-2019 |
No bail for 2 CPI-M youths charged under | Kozhikode (Kerala) Nov 6 (TIWN) The Kozhikode district court here on Wednesday refused bail to the two CPI-M workers who have been booked by the police under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). | 06-Nov-2019 |