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Uttarakhand CM orders stern action in ‘love jihad’ cases after meeting wit...

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday held a meeting with senior police officers in Dehradun and asked them to take stern...

J-K: Chinar trees lopped for Srinagar Smart City project, activists outraged

AIIMS’ online nursing exam mired in controversy over allegations of hacking yet agai...

Tejashwi: Lalu stopped Advani’s rath, Nitish will stop Modi’s

RJD leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday (June 8) claimed that the states ruling Mahagathbandhan led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would stop Narendra Modi’s “chariot” like his father Lalu Prasad had halted Advani's ‘rath yatra’. Prominent leaders including Congress’ Rahul Gandhi, Trinamool Congress chief and West B...

Srinagar: Students stage protest after being denied entry to school wearing ‘ab...

Several female students of Vishwa Bharti Higher Secondary School staged a protest against its administration in Srinagar on Thursday, alleging that they were denied entry to the institute for wearing abaya. A loose-fitting, full-length robe, abaya is worn by Muslim women. “We are told that we should go to a Madarsa if we want to wear an abaya. W...

Tirupati Balaji temple opens gates in Jammu, 6th outside Andhra

Hundreds of devotees thronged to pay obeisance to Lord Venkateshwara as the Tirupati Balaji temple opened its gates in Majeen, on the outskirts of Jammu and Kashmir, on Thursday (June 8). As mantras were chanted, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Union ministers Dr Jitendra Singh and G Kishen Reddy inaugurated the temple. The...

Gyanvapi litigant alleges harassment, seeks President’s permission for euthanas...

The main litigant in the Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri complex case has sought "permission for euthanasia" from President Droupadi Murmu, alleging that her fellow petitioners are spreading false propaganda to defame her. Rakhi Singh said claims that she is withdrawing from the case are false. Lawyer for the Hindu litigants in the case, Harishankar Jai...

Mere transportation of cow not offence under UP Cow Slaughter Act: Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has held that mere possession or transportation of cows and bullocks from one place to another within the state would not come under the ambit of the Uttar Pradesh Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act. Allowing the bail application of Kundan Yadav of Kushi Nagar district, Justice Vikram D Chauhan observed, “No material has be...

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Opposition’s Patna meet on June 23; Rahul, Stalin, Mamata, Pawar, Kejriwal to a...

Opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Pawar, MK Stalin, and Arvind Kejriwal among others will meet in Patna on June 23. Hosted by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, the gathering will also draw RJD leader and Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, Samajwadi Party chief Akhi...

Gangster Sanjeev Maheshwari Jeeva shot dead in Lucknow court

Gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari's alleged aide Sanjeev Maheshwari Jeeva was shot dead on Lucknow court premises on Wednesday (June 7), police said. Two persons were injured in the shooting by a man who, eyewitnesses said, was dressed like a lawyer. "Sanjeev Maheshwari Jeeva, who was held in Lucknow jail, was brought to the court for hearin...

PM MITRA textile park in Lucknow to create 1 lakh jobs: All you need to know

A PM Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel (PM MITRA) park will come up in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and is expected to generate employment to one lakh people. In March, the Government of India (GoI) approved 7 PM MITRA parks for the textile industry in greenfield/brownfield sites with world-class infrastructure including plug and play facili...

In politically critical UP, ground slowly slips away from under Yogi’s feet

The Yogi Adityanath government is apparently stable. But political observers in Uttar Pradesh can sense that the ground under his feet is gradually slipping away and events can precipitate two major socio-political shifts, potentially involving Jats and Brahmins. First, let us consider the Jat alienation from the BJP. Jats voted for BJP in the 2...

Bihar bridge collapse: Construction firm show caused; exec engineer suspended

Taking a grim view of the bridge collapse incident two days ago, the Bihar government has slapped a show cause notice on the construction company concerned, a top official said on Tuesday. Pratyay Amrit, the Additional Chief Secretary for the road construction department, also said that the executive engineer concerned has been suspended. “The H...

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to meet Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on June 7

Amid efforts by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to get support against the Centre's Ordinance on control of services in the national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow on Wednesday (June 6). Kejriwal, who is also the AAP national convenor, has been reaching out to leaders of non-BJP ...

Woman, daughter killed after billboard falls on car in Lucknow

A woman and her daughter were killed and their driver injured after a huge billboard fell on their car outside Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on Monday (June 5), police said. The accident occurred in the area under Sushant Golf City police station area in the evening, they said. A billboard fell on the Scorpio vehicle in which Preeti Jaggi (38) and...

Patna braces for Opposition meet, and Nitish Kumar has a big condition

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday made it clear that only those heading political parties can attend the Opposition meet in Patna which was to be held on June 12 but has been postponed. The chief minister told the media in Patna that a new date for the Opposition conclave will be announced after consulting the various parties. “We had ...

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari convicted in 1991 Awadhesh Rai murder

A Varanasi court on Monday convicted jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in a 32-year-old murder case of a Congress leader, Awadhesh Rai. The incident dates back to early 90s when Ansari had started gaining prominence in political circles. On August 3, 1991, Congress leader and brother of former MLA Ajay Rai, Awadhesh Rai, was shot ...

Brij Bhushan Singh, strongman from UP badlands even Modi dares not upset

The Balasore train tragedy has given the Narendra Modi government some respite from the daily embarrassment it was struggling to brazen out over the wrestlers’ protest. However, once normalcy begins to return at the site of the triple train crash in Odisha, the protest by the women wrestling champions, led by Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat, is cert...

Greater Noida: Over 30 held as security guards, students clash in state-run universit...

More than 30 private security guards and students were taken into police custody after a clash broke out between them at the state-run Gautam Buddha University in Greater Noida, officials said on Monday (June 5). The clash was triggered after security guards allegedly objected to some students smoking cigarettes at the Munshi Premchand Hostel in...

Bridge over Ganga river collapses in Bihar; govt, opposition trade charges

An under-construction bridge over river Ganga that was supposed to connect Bihar’s Khagaria district with Bhagalpur collapsed on Sunday (June 4). No casualties were reported. Officials have told PTI that portions of the bridge were deliberately destroyed in a planned fashion under expert advice as it had design flaws. Visuals of the bri...

Akhara in Haridwar imposes ban on devotees wearing indecent clothes

Asking devotees to wear “appropriate” clothes before entering the precincts of temples in Haridwar, Rishikesh and Dehradun, temple authorities on Sunday (June 4) imposed a ban on the entry of devotees not wearing decent clothing in utter disregard of the sanctity of the temples. Mahant Ravindra Puri, secretary of the Mahanirvani Panchayati Akhar...

India, Pak dialogue a prerequisite to improve situation in Kashmir: Abdullah

National Conference (NC) president and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah on Sunday (June 4) said that holding the G20 event in Kashmir would not benefit tourism in the Valley until India and Pakistan resolved the “future” of the Union Territory through dialogue. Speaking to the reporters in Srinagar, Abdullah also said that...

SC stays Allahabad HC order seeking report on rape survivor’s ‘mangalik’ status

The Supreme Court has stayed an Allahabad High Court order directing an examination of a rape victim’s horoscope to determine if she was a “mangalik”. The apex court on Saturday (June 3) remarked that an astrological report was not required while hearing a bail plea and asked the high court to evaluate the accused’s plea on merit. According t...

After Delhi HC grants interim relief, Sisodia reaches residence to meet ailing wife

Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia returned to his residence from Tihar jail on Saturday, following the grant of interim relief to visit his ailing wife. Prior to Sisodia's arrival, his wife, Seema, was admitted to the hospital due to her deteriorating health. Seema, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, had been hospitalized last mon...

PM Modi, UP CM Adityanath are saints, says Union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

Union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti has described Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as "saints" and she praised the PM for "changing" the country's atmosphere. Jyoti, the Union minister of state for rural development was talking at a religious event in Ballia in UP on June 1, when she said Modi has do...

UP: Permission denied for Brij Bhushan’s rally in Ayodhya on June 5

An official announced on Friday (June 2) that the Ayodhya district administration has refused BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh permission to organise a rally in the area on June 5. Singh, the BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief, has been accused of sexually abusing female grapplers. This is likely to be one of the first instance...

Wrestlers’ protest: Khap mahapanchayat begins in UP’s Muzaffarnagar

A khap mahapanchayat to discuss the ongoing protest by wrestlers against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh started at Soram village in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leaders said. The mahapanchayat was called by BKU leader Naresh Tikait on Wednesday, a day after he and oth...

Time not ripe for Army’s withdrawal from Kashmir hinterland: GOC Chinar Corps

The situation in Kashmir has improved vastly over the last few years but the time is not ripe yet for the army to go back to the barracks, a senior officer said in Srinagar. The number of active terrorists in the valley is at its lowest in the last 34 years, General Officer Commanding of Chinar Corps Lieutenant General ADS Aujla told PTI on Wedn...

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