The Supreme Court at 10.30 am on Saturday will pronounce its verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case that has been in the centre of a major political upheaval in the country. A 5-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, had reserved the judgment on October 16 after marathon hearing for 40 days....
A Major General of the Indian Army is likely to face court martial for allegedly sending pornographic video clips and obscene messages to National Cadet Corps (NCC) girl cadets on their mobile phones. The case pertains to 2017-2018 when the senior officer was posted in Gujarat. A Court of Inquiry (CoI) was ordered into the matter after the NCC...
BJP leader and former finance minister Arun Jaitley died at 12.07 pm on August 24, 2019 Saturday at AIIMS. He was 66. Jaitley was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on August 9 and was treated by a multi-disciplinary team of senior doctors. Arun Jaitley, a lawyer by profession, had been a key member of...
President Ram Nath Kovind in “concurrence” with the “Jammu and Kashmir government” promulgated Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 2019 on Monday which states that provisions of the Indian Constitution are applicable in the state. The president issued Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 2019 which comes into force “at once”, and shall “supersede the Constitution (Application...
Former Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi Friday joined the Shiv Sena, blaming the Rahul Gandhi-led party for reinstating party workers who misbehaved with her recently. At a press conference here, Chaturvedi was welcomed into the Sena by the saffron party president Uddhav Thackeray, who said Shiv Sena workers have got a “good sister” in Chaturvedi. Earlier in the day, Chaturvedi, who was...
Goa Chief Minister and former defence minister Manohar Parrikar passed away at the age of 63 years on Sunday. Parrikar was fist IITian Chief Minister of India. He was born on December 13, 1955 .He was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014. Later Parrikar served in the BJP government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Defence...
India Tuesday carried out pre-dawn air strikes on terror launch pads in Pakistan and is believed to have destroyed terrorist targets, sources said. The strike comes amid heightened tension between India and Pakistan after the February 14 suicide attack by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad terror group in Kashmir’s Pulwama district that killed 40 CRPF soldiers. Sources told PTI that the strikes...
Former defence minister and a veteran socialist, George Mathew Fernandes, who was a former Indian trade unionist, politician, journalist, agriculturist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar passed away at the age of 88. During his political life, he was also a key member of the Janata Dal and the founder of the Samata Party. He had held several...
Bank Strike on 26 December 2018: 10 lakh employees to protest against Bank of Baroda-Dena Bank-Vijaya Bank merger, hit services Bank Strike on 26 December 2018: Services in most of the banks, including private lenders, will be hit on Thursday (December 26) due to a strike called by around one million employees of various banks. The bank employees are protesting...
Boulder, debris fall during work on an all-weather road project on Rudraprayag-Gaurikund highway More than half a dozen persons are feared dead after a boulder and debris fell on workers on the Rudraprayag-Gaurikund highway on Friday. According to initial reports from local sources, seven laborers reportedly died while three sustained serious injuries. More than a dozen laborers are feared...