Category: NATIONAL NEWS

 A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear on September 27, an application of Uddhav Thackeray-led faction seeking to restrain the Election Commission from deciding on the claim of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led group over the “original” Shiv Sena party. The bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud said it will pass directions indicating the timeline for hearing all other issues emanating from a batch of petitions filed by both the sides related to power of speaker/deputy speaker and governor in relation to the…

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 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said he is neither a claimant for the prime minister’s post nor desirous of it, his assertion coming amid speculation that his visit to Delhi is to claim leadership of the opposition parties. It is time for the Left parties, the Congress and all regional parties to come together to form a united opposition, Kumar told reporters after meeting CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and CPI general secretary D Raja at their respective party offices. The Janata Dal (United) leader, who severed his…

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Preventing a citizen from expressing a bonfide opinion against any bill or law passed by Parliament is violative of the right to free speech and principles of democracy, Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have contended before the Delhi High Court while opposing a plea for a hate speech FIR against them in the February 2020 riots here. The Gandhis, in two separate affidavits, submitted no case was made out for the court to issue direction for registering an FIR against them and there was no requirement to order…

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Justice UU Lalit will be the second CJI who was directly elevated to the Supreme Court bench from the Bar. Justice SM Sikri, who became the 13th Chief Justice of India in January 1971, was the first lawyer to be elevated directly to the top court bench in March 1964. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in as the 49th Chief Justice of India today, a day after Justice NV Ramana retired from the highest judicial post. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office of the Chief Justice of…

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The police have arrested two people in the murder case filed after the death of Sonali Phogat. A day after security camera footage showed actor and BJP leader Sonali Phogat staggering on her way out of a nightclub in Goa, hours before she was declared dead, a new clip has emerged that shows her being forced to drink on the dance floor. The man in the video appears to be Sudhir Sangwan, one of her two associates who have been arrested as the police investigate the murder case. He was…

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Arvind Kejriwal has come up with a new term to describe the demolition drives of the Modi government against opposition governments. The term is ‘serial killer’. While speaking in the special session of Delhi assembly, he said, “There is a new serial killer on the loose. Others form governments, but these people bring them down. They have trampled on democracy.”  Taking potshots at the media, he had tweeted earlier in Hindi – “There is a serial killer. He committed six murders. Now, there is another murder attempt. Same pattern. But…

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Sonali Phogat was forcibly made to drink “some substance” mixed in water by her two associates, the police have said. A drugs case has been registered by the Goa Police and two more people have been arrested following the death of actor and BJP leader Sonali Phogat. This is in addition to the murder case filed earlier by the police and the arrest of two of her associates. The latest arrests include Edwin Nunes, owner of restaurant Curlie’s where Phogat was seen partying the night before her death, and a…

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Students’ union AASU on Monday alleged that a large stretch of the India-Bangladesh border in Assam’s Dhubri district has remained “unfenced” even after 37 years of signing of the historic Assam Accord. A team of All Assam Students’ Union led by its general secretary Shankar Jyoti Baruah went to the international border in the district on Sunday and expressed their dissatisfaction over the “exposed” boundary. “We are shocked to see that the border between India and Bangladesh along the Gangadhar river in Binnachara area near Golakganj is totally exposed, Baruah…

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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Thursday that the political shift in Bihar is a “positive sign” and hoped a strong alternative to the BJP is formed in the 2024 parliamentary polls. He also claimed that the BJP’s allies in Uttar Pradesh are not happy with it and will also break free from the saffron party in the future. JD(U)’s Nitish Kumar recently dumped the BJP and joined hands with Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Congress and other parties to form a new government in Bihar. In…

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President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a host of other dignitaries paid tributes to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his fourth death anniversary on Tuesday They were joined by several Union ministers and other leaders, including Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda, at ‘Sadaiv Atal’, Vajpayee’s memorial, here Modi later tweeted, “Today, on the Punya Tithi of respected Atal Ji, visited Sadaiv Atal and paid tributes to him. We remain inspired by Atal Ji’s efforts to serve India.…

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