Chandigarh : Dissidents continue to give a tough time to the state Congress. Despite efforts by the leadership to avoid a repeat of the 2012 elections when the rebels played spoilsport, there are reports of nearly 25 unsuccessful ticket seekers filing their nomination papers. PPCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh is scheduled to hold another set […]
Lucknow, January 19 : Hopes of a ‘maha gathbandhan’ against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh were on Thursday dashed with the Samajwadi Party ruling out any alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), but asserting a tie-up with the Congress. “We will forge an alliance only with the Congress. We will not ally with the […]
Srinagar, January 19 : A top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant commander and the nephew of Mumbai attacks mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was killed in a gunfight in north Kashmir’s Bandipora on Thursday. The militant commander identified as Abu Musaib, was killed in a wee-hour gunfight in Khosa Mohalla of Hajin, some 30 kms from Srinagar, after […]
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a PIL seeking legal sanction to divorces granted to Catholic Christians by Church-run canonical courts without subjecting them to go through the procedure under the Christian Marriage Act 1872. A Bench comprising Chief Justice JS Khehar and DY Chandrachud said the petition was devoid of merit […]
New Delhi, January 19 : AAP MLA Jarnail Singh has been discharged by a Delhi court of charges of preventing an MCD engineer from demolishing an unauthorised building here, causing damage to state property and beating up a government official. The sessions court set aside a magisterial court order taking cognisance on the charge sheet […]