Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said that the BJP will study the Election Commission's directions on removal of Union Minister Anurag Thakur and MP Parvesh Verma from party's star campaigners' list for the Delhi Assembly polls.
Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Wednesday January 29, 2020
Even as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a curative petition filed by one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case on Thursday, another person found guilty of the heinous crime has now filed a mercy petition before President Ram Nath Kovind.
The six-month ban on comedian Kunal Kamra for heckling a TV channel editor on an IndiGo flight on Tuesday is a violation of due process in situations such as this, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) sources said today
Accusing Pakistan of becoming the "architect and exporter" of terrorism, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan on Wednesday said India has made "abundantly clear" to its neighbours that it will no longer remain a silent witness to terror attacks in the country and will take resolute steps.
A 33-year-old woman has written to the National Commission for Women (NCW) alleging that Bollywood choreographer Ganesh Acharya used to make her watch porn videos whenever she visited his office in Mumbai.
Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Wednesday January 29, 2020, Kolkata
Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar said today that he is still in shock about yesterday's students' protest at the Calcutta University function meant to award an honourary degree to Nobel laureate Abhijeet Banerjee. The protests kept him cooped up in a room for 30 minutes and forced him to leave without getting anywhere near the stage.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) about the purpose of having an online open-book or take-home exams if classes have not been held.
After weeks of hedging its bets on the Delhi assembly polls, the Shiromani Akali Dal has finally come around to renewing its electoral alliance with the BJP with a declaration that certain "misunderstandings" between the two parties have been amicably resolved.
Arvind Kejriwal's AAP has asked the Election Commission to ban Union Home Minister Amit Shah from campaigning in Delhi for the next 48 hours, over a tweet attacking the condition of Delhi government schools
Nirbhaya case: One of the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case to be hanged on Saturday has challenged his execution using the last legal resort in the Supreme Court known as the curative petition.
A day after a man entered the protest area at Shaheen Bagh and threatened anti-CAA agitators, the police have registered a case in this connection, officials said on Wednesday.
Edited by Swati Bhasin | Wednesday January 29, 2020, New Delhi
Amid widespread fear of spread of SARS-like coronavirus, that originated in China's Hubei provice last month, India today issued a fresh advisory for people planning to travel to the east Asian country.
