Advocate A.P. Singh, lawyer for three of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case again moved an application before a Delhi court seeking directions to the Tihar Jail authorities to supply him the relevant documents in order to exercise the remaining legal remedies available with the convicts — Vinay Pawan and Akshay. Singh, in his plea filed before the Patiala House Court sought urgent orders of the court in order to file a mercy petition of Vinay Sharma and in relation to requests for documents for convicts Vinay Sharma, Pawan Kumar Gupta and Akshay Kumar Singh. He…
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The death toll from the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China has risen to 25, and the number of confirmed cases was now 830, the National Health Commission reported on Friday. As of Thursday midnight, the agency said that during the 23rd day, eight new deaths and 259 new cases were confirmed, affecting 29 provinces and autonomous regions throughout the country, reports Efe news. For the first time, a death was recorded in the province of Hebei, in the northeast, surrounding Beijing. Until then all victims had been registered in the province of Hubei, the capital of which is Wuhan, a…
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday wrote to Union External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to ask him to see that all steps are taken by the Saudi Arabian authorities after reports emerged that nurses from the south Indian state in a hospital there are affected by the coronavirus. In his letter to Jaishankar, Vijayan mentioned that nurses working at Jazeera Abha Al Hayath Hospital in Saudi Arabia have been identified as being infected with the coronavirus, and India should get in touch with the Saudi authorities to ensure that action is taken to help them. According to reports, one…
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold protests at the collectors offices all over Madhya Pradesh on Friday. “The BJP workers will gherao the district collectors’ offices on January 24 in entire MP,” state BJP vice-president Vijesh Lunawat told the media on Thursday evening. Terming the Kamal Nath government’s drive against mafia essentially meant to target the BJP cadre, the party said, the bureaucrats and the police were exploiting it to make money. The Congress government was trying to demoralise the BJP workers by demolishing their “small negligible encroachments, while sparing the Congress leaders’ massive illegal buildings,” Lunawat alleged. Congress…
It was not only a dream come true for city girl Hridya S. Nair to anchor Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Pariksha pe Charcha’ programme in New Delhi on January 20 but also a great honour to meet and talk to him. “It was a great honour and privilege to meet and interact with the Prime Minister. Anchoring the two-hour show at the Talkatora Stadium for about 3,000 school and college students from across the country with two other anchors was a dream come true,” the 16-year-old told IANS on Thursday, a day after returning from the national capital. Apart from…
Addressing a Shiv Sena meeting, Chief Raj Thackeray told his party men that he will not oppose the Citizenship Amendment Act. He further added India cannot afford to accommodate intruders from Pakistan and Bangladesh. He said, moves like the abolition of Article 370 and bringing in CAA need to be appreciated. The MNS chief added that India should deal strictly with refugees just like the US, Britain and other countries where passport rules are strictly followed. Mr. Thackeray further claimed that he has information about places in Maharashtra where heads of certain communities are conspiring against the government’s move to…
Nitish Kumar made it clear to Pawan Varma that he is free to exit the party during an ideological face-off on CAA. JDU leader Pavan Varma left Bihar CM Nitish Kumar embarrassed with his claims on how he felt about CAA and NRC, the JDU chief said his colleague is free to leave the party and join any other party. Speaking on Pavan Varma’s letter in which he spoke of Nitish Kumar’s apprehensions on CAA and NRC that he “expressed in private”, the Bihar CM said, “If anyone has any issues then the person can discuss it within party or…
Ruling out any role for a “third party” in the Kashmir issue, India rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments offering to mediate between India andIndia on Thursday rejected US President Donald Trump’s offer to help resolve the Kashmir dispute, saying the matter had to be addressed between New Delhi and Islamabad. “There is no role for any third party in the Kashmir issue,” Indian ministry of external affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said. He was quoted by The Hindu as making the comments in response to a question on Trump’s remarks ahead of his meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan in…
He started with Ayushman Baharat and ended with JNU, mentioning ‘Rahul Baba’ and Kashmir in between. This pretty much sums up the discourse put forth by former BJP chief and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who kicked off his campaign for Delhi polls with a series of rallies here on Thursday. Faced with the challenge thrown by the AAP leadership to fight the election on ‘real issues’, Shah started his speech with Ayushman Bharat, a national health protection scheme which is the pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shah dedicated a considerable amount of time to it. “Under the…
Amid the protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Population Register (NPR), Wazirganj area of Gonda district in Uttar Pradesh is writing a new chapter on Hindu-Muslim unity. A madarsa, Gulshan-e-Baghdad, situated in Rasulpur development block of Wazirganj is not only giving Sanskrit lessons to Muslim students but a large number of Hindu students are also studying here to learn Urdu. The madarsa has about 230 students out of which 30 are Hindus and more than 50 Muslim students are learning Sanskrit, according to the Principal. There are two teachers in Rasulpur madarsa — Qari Abdul Rashid…