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Nirbhaya case: Court pulls up lawyer on | New Delhi, March 18 (TIWN) A court here on Wednesday came down heavily on the lawyer representing the death-row convicts in Nirbhaya rape case, asking him why he always approaches court at the last hour. | 18-Mar-2020 |
'Gogoi's decision shakes peoples's trust | New Delhi, March 17 (TIWN) Former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph on Tuesday criticised former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi for accepting the nomination to the Rajya Sabha, saying his decision will negatively affect the confidence of the common man on the independence of the judiciary. | 17-Mar-2020 |
Covid-19: Bengal cinema halls to remain | Kolkata, March 17 (TIWN) All cinema halls in West Bengal will remain closed till March 31, while film shoots in the state would remain suspended upto March 30 in view of the novel coronavirus threat, various stakeholders announced on Tuesday. | 17-Mar-2020 |
Independence of Judiciary attacked by Go | New Delhi, March 17 (TIWN) Nomination of former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha has given fresh ammunition to the opposition parties to mount attack on the Centre. The Congress has alleged that the move proved that the judiciary is not independent. | 17-Mar-2020 |
'India constitutionally secular; CAA doe | New Delhi, March 17 (TIWN) The Centre in a preliminary affidavit point-by-point responded to the criticism against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and said India is constitutionally secular, and also told the Supreme Court that the CAA does not violate any fundamental right provisions of the constitution and therefore, the question of violation of constitutional morality does not arise. | 17-Mar-2020 |
Hurt by allegation of not upholding prop | Bhopal, March 17 (TIWN) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has expressed unhappiness by writing a fresh letter to Governor Lalji Tandon in which he has said that he is deeply hurt by the allegation that he has not upheld parliamentary propriety. | 17-Mar-2020 |
COVID-19: Border trade with B'desh, Nepa | Guwahati/Agartala, March 16 (TIWN) Border trade with Dhaka and other neighbouring countries continued on Monday even as India restricted people's movement through all land immigration checkposts on the country's borders with Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar from March 15 midnight. | 16-Mar-2020 |
COVID-19: Congress asks govt to call mee | New Delhi, March 16 (TIWN) After the Prime Minister's video conferencing with representatives of the SAARC countries, the Congress has demanded that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi should also talk to the chief ministers and health ministers of all the states. | 16-Mar-2020 |
Shah meets Modi over Madhya Pradesh deve | New Delhi, March 16 (TIWN) After the Congress-led Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh on Monday got a breather as the state Assembly was adjourned till March 26, Union Home Minister Amit Shah held discussion with Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the political turmoil in the state. | 16-Mar-2020 |
Coronavirus pandemic comes to rescue of | New Delhi, March 16 (TIWN) In a first of its kind, the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, which has killed over 6,000 people worldwide and two in India so far, has come to the rescue of a government. | 16-Mar-2020 |
Coronavirus: Gardens, parks closed in Sr | Srinagar, March 16 (TIWN) All parks and gardens in Srinagar have been closed till further notice due to the spread of coronavirus. | 16-Mar-2020 |
Rahul slams govt for hiking duty on petr | New Delhi, March 15 (TIWN) After the government raised the excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 3 a litre, which would increase their retail prices by Rs 3-4 a litre, depending on the tax structure in different states, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi here on Sunday said the government should have passed on the benefit of falling crude oil rates to consumers instead of filling its coffers. | 15-Mar-2020 |
Will coronavirus come to the rescue of C | Bhopal, March 15 (TIWN) Can coronavirus come to the rescue of the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh? New Health Minister Tarun Bhanot and Speaker Narmada Prasad Prajapati seem to be holding hope. | 15-Mar-2020 |
Was Kerala top cop kept in isolation aft | Thiruvananthapuram, March 15 (TIWN) The Congress party in Kerala on Sunday sought to know from the state government if state police chief Loknath Behera who returned after an official visit from London last week was put under observation for coronavirus. | 15-Mar-2020 |
Congress faces exodus of Gujarat MLAs; t | New Delhi/Ahmedabad, March 15 (TIWN) Ahead of Rajya Sabha polls, the Congress is now facing a rebellion in in Gujarat with four MLAs having resigned so far and two more set to put in their papers, top sources said. | 15-Mar-2020 |
Protest against reservation in promotion | Dehradun, March 15 (TIWN) The protest against reservation in promotion in government jobs by General-OBC employees continued on 13th day here on Sunday. | 15-Mar-2020 |
After Congress, BJP issues whip to MLAs | Bhopal, March 15 (TIWN) The Madhya Pradesh BJP on Sunday issued a whip to all its MLAs to remain present in the House during the Assembly session that begins on Monday. | 15-Mar-2020 |
BJP's communal virus more dangerous than | Guwahati, March 14 (TIWN) Taking on the BJP governments at the Centre and the state, former Assam Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Tarun Gogoi on Saturday said 'communal virus' of the saffron outfit was more dangerous than the coronavirus and declared that his party was keen on forging a grand alliance to defeat the communal forces in the next year's assembly polls. | 14-Mar-2020 |
BJP demands floor test before Guv's addr | Bhopal, March 14 (TIWN) Amid the ongoing political drama in Madhya Pradesh, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation met Governor Lalji Tandon on Saturday and demanded a floor test before his address to the House and the budget session of the Assembly. | 14-Mar-2020 |
Goa orders closure of Edu bodies, pubs, | Panaji, March 14 (TIWN) The Goa government has directed the closure of schools, colleges pubs, movie halls, public swimming pools, spas, boat-cruises and casinos till March 31, in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Saturday. The closure will come into effect from midnight on Sunday. | 14-Mar-2020 |
3 media men quarantined in Karnataka | Kalaburagi (Karnataka), March 14 (TIWN) Two journalists and a cameraman of a national news channel were quarantined in North Karnataka's Kalaburagi for interviewing the coronavirus victim's son two days ago, a top official said on Saturday. | 14-Mar-2020 |
Shaheen Bagh protesters want fair probe | New Delhi, March 14 (TIWN) Nearly 90 days since they launched their stir against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register, a group of women demonstrators at Shaheen Bagh on Friday said that they will continue with the protest till the law is revoked. | 14-Mar-2020 |
BJP, Congress MLAs clash at Bhopal airpo | Bhopal, March 13 (TIWN) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress MLAs gathered at Raja Bhoj airport here on Friday after they got to know that MLAs supporting Jyotiraditya Scindia were returning from Bengaluru. | 13-Mar-2020 |
Congress wants MLAs' resignations reject | Bhopal, March 13 (TIWN) Madhya Pradesh Parliamentary Affairs Minister Govind Singh has handed a letter to the Speaker requesting him not to accept the resignations of the MLAs for now. There was also a suggestion that the Budget session be deferred in view of the threat of coronavirus. | 13-Mar-2020 |
I can't believe I'm free: Farooq Abdulla | Srinagar, March 13 (TIWN) Senior National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah on Friday promised to be in the Parliament in the next two weeks as he recovers from an eye surgery, the former J&K Chief Minister told the media as he walked out free after being in detention for seven months ever since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5 last year. | 13-Mar-2020 |
Take precautions against coronovirus: Pr | New Delhi, March 13 (TIWN) Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has released a video clip on the social media to talk about creating public awareness on coronavirus and appealed to the people to be more cautious than before. | 13-Mar-2020 |
SC questions UP on posters, says no law | New Delhi, March 12 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the Uttar Pradesh government's decision to put up hoarding, displaying the pictures and addresses of the people who indulged in violence and destruction of property during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, as currently there was no law to back the action and referred the matter to a three-judge bench next week. | 12-Mar-2020 |
Tharoor raises doubts on quarantine spac | New Delhi, March 12 (TIWN) Senior Congress Leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday raised questions over government's preparation to deal with novel coronavirus patients, asking if it has enough space to quarantine people coming from abroad. | 12-Mar-2020 |
Panic as fire breaks out in Kolkata medi | Kolkata, March 12 (TIWN) There was much panic as fire broke out in the emergency ward of the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital here on Thursday afternoon, officials said. There were no injuries or casualty. | 12-Mar-2020 |
SC says no law to back name and shame po | New Delhi, March 12 (TIWN) The Supreme Court Thursday told the Uttar Pradesh government that there is no law currently in place to back its action of naming and shaming the people accused of vandalism during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in Lucknow. | 12-Mar-2020 |
Hundreds of Scindia supporters resign fr | Bhopal, March 12 (TIWN) After Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from the Congress, many others have started abandoning the party as well. Resignations have come from almost every part of Madhya Pradesh. So far hundreds of workers and party officials have put in their papers. | 12-Mar-2020 |
Lekhi: IB report on transfer of judges s | New Delhi, March 11 (TIWN) Without naming Justice S. Muralidhar, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi said on the floor of Lok Sabha on Wednesday that the Intelligence Bureau (IB) report on the transfer of judges should have been made public. | 11-Mar-2020 |
BJP releases list of 11 RS aspirants, Sc | New Delhi, March 11 (TIWN) Former Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined the BJP earlier in the day, was nominated by the party for the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh in a list of 11 candidates released on Wednesday evening. | 11-Mar-2020 |
396 detained under PSA in Kashmir | New Delhi, March 11 (TIWN) The Centre on Wednesday said in Parliament that 396 persons have been detained in Kashmir under the Public Safety Act (PSA) out of the total 451 detained in Jammu and Kashmir, Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy stated in the Rajya Sabha in response to a question by Shiromani Akali Dal MP Sardar Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa. | 11-Mar-2020 |
All BJP MLAs from MP lodged in Manesar h | New Delhi, March 11 (TIWN) The BJP has hosted all its legislators -- 106 of them -- from Madhya Pradesh at Manesar's The Grand ITC Hotel, sources said on Wednesday. | 11-Mar-2020 |
India supplies bullet proof jackets to 1 | New Delhi, March 11 (TIWN) India is supplying bullet proof jackets to 18 countries, the Union Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh said in Parliament on Wednesday. | 11-Mar-2020 |
History repeats in MP after Scindia resi | New Delhi, March 10 (TIWN) The Congress government in Madhya Pradesh is likely to be toppled once again as history repeats after 53 years in the state. | 10-Mar-2020 |
Kamal Nath sacks six 'rebel' Madhya Prad | Bengaluru/Bhopal, March 10 (TIWN) Beleaguered Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday recommended the dismissal of six cabinet ministers to the state governor in Bhopal. | 10-Mar-2020 |
MP crisis: 19 Cong MLAs submit resignati | Bhopal, March 10 (TIWN) After Jyotiraditya Scindia quit the Congress, resignations from his Congress MLAs started pouring in. | 10-Mar-2020 |
COVID-19: Four positive cases in Bengalu | Bengaluru, March 10 (TIWN) Karnataka Health Minister B. Sriramulu on Tuesday confirmed four positive Coronavirus cases in the state. | 10-Mar-2020 |
Congress not giving Scindia first seat f | New Delhi, March 10 (TIWN) After the resignation of once Rahul Gandhi's confidante Jyotiraditya Scindia, the congress government is on a risk to fall as Scindia supporting MLAs have started giving resignations. | 10-Mar-2020 |
Sonia begins talks to name Rajya Sabha p | New Delhi, March 9 (TIWN) Amid the crisis in Madhya Pradesh where the fight for the Upper House seat has turned ugly causing revolt, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, here on Monday, initiated the process to finalise the list of Rajya Sabha candidates for the March 23 elections for 55 seats. | 09-Mar-2020 |
Amid drama in MP, BJP calls legislature | New Delhi, March 9 (TIWN) Amid political drama in Madhya Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called a legislature party meeting in Bhopal on Tuesday to discuss the current political situation and to work out a strategy to bring a no confidence motion against the Kamal Nath government. | 09-Mar-2020 |
Cong demands judicial probe into Delhi r | New Delhi, March 9 (TIWN) The Congress fact-finding team for Delhi riots in its report, submitted to party interim chief Sonia Gandhi here on Monday, has demanded judicial probe into it to reveal the conspiracy angle. | 09-Mar-2020 |
BJP ally Apna Dal appoints Dalit as stat | Lucknow, March 9 (TIWN) In a shrewd political move, the Kurmi-centric Apna Dal, a BJP ally in Uttar Pradesh, has played the Dalit card by appointing Jamuna Prasad Saroj as the party's first Dalit state president. | 09-Mar-2020 |
Kamal Nath leaves for Delhi, will meet t | Bhopal, March 9 (TIWN) In wake of the recent political turbulence in Madhya Pradesh, Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Sunday left for New Delhi, where he is expected to meet senior Congress party leaders. | 09-Mar-2020 |
Cong raises question over Rana Kapoor's | New Delhi, March 8 (TIWN) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government must talk about increase in bad loans at Yes Bank in the last five years after Narendra Modi came to power, and should not try to divert public attention, said Congress chief spokesperson, Randeep Singh Surjewala here on Sunday. | 08-Mar-2020 |
AAP launches membership drive in UP | Lucknow, March 8 (TIWN) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is launching a three-month long membership drive in Uttar Pradesh from March 23 to June 23. | 08-Mar-2020 |
After Twitter, PM hands over Insta, FB, | New Delhi, March 8 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday not only handed over control of his Twitter account to "inspiring women" on Women's Day, but also his other social media platforms. | 08-Mar-2020 |
Bridging police-public gap a priority fo | Noida, March 8 (TIWN) Shriparna Ganguli, one of the two additional commissioners in the new system of the Police Commissionerate in the Gautam Buddha Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, is very clear about her priorities in her new assignment. | 08-Mar-2020 |