The Supreme Court on Wednesday approved the Centre’s draft witness protection scheme and asked all the States to implement it till Parliament comes out with a legislation. A Bench headed by Justice A.K. Sikri said that they have made some changes in the scheme. The issue of witness protection scheme had cropped up earlier when […]
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The Prime Minister, speaking at a campaign rally in Rajasthan said that the party will have to answer why this was not done 70 years ago. Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the Kartarpur corridor linking Pakistan to India to hit out at the Congress on Tuesday and said the party will have to answer why […]
Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi makes its intention clear that it will hear the PIL pleas that have been pending for years in the court adjourned from date to date. The Supreme Court on Monday, December 3, 2018, gave the Gujarat government an opportunity to file an affidavit giving reasons why […]
George HW Bush’s funeral arrangements will be announced in due course, a family spokesman said. WASHINGTON: George H.W. Bush — the upper-crust war hero-turned-oilman and diplomat who steered America through the end of the Cold War as president and led a political dynasty that saw his son win the White House — died Friday. He […]
The Maratha community constitutes over 30 per cent of the State’s population. The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a Bill without discussion that grants 16 per cent reservation to the Maratha community in education and government jobs. The Bill is expected to be tabled in the Legislative Council later in the day. Earlier, […]
The leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha on the Assembly polls in five States, the need for Opposition unity, and the coalition government in Karnataka Mallikarjun Kharge is leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha, Member of Parliament from Karnataka, and a former Union Railway Minister. In this interview, Mr. […]
There is just a misconception because of the lapse of the Antiterrorism Ordinance passed in February, says Mr. Hussain Pakistan Information Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said the nation was “bound by UN resolutions” and asserted that the country had not lifted its ban on Hafiz Saeed’s organisations, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamaat-ud- Dawa and Falah-I-Insaniyat Foundation. […]
Congress Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, on Tuesday 27 November crossed the Attari-Wagah border on Tuesday, 27 November and attended the opening ceremony of the Kartarpur corridor on 28 November. Talking at the ceremony, the senior Congress minister said that Kartarpur corridor is a corridor of infinite possibilities of peace and prosperity. Vice President M Venkaiah […]
“…We will never let terrorists win, or even come close to winning!,” Mr. Trump tweeted. On the 10th anniversary of the Mumbai terrorist attack, President Donald Trump on Monday said that the United States stands with the people of India in their quest for justice. In the attack unleashed on November 26, 2008 by 10 […]
He was among a dozen clerics who had gone to Arvind Kejriwal’s home for a public hearing. A bullet was found in his wallet while he was being frisked. NEW DELHI: A 39-year-old man who had gone to meet Arvind Kejriwal as part of a delegation of clerics on Monday was arrested after live bullets […]