Day: April 13, 2024

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea against a high court order that has upheld his arrest in a money-laundering case stemming from the alleged excise policy scam. According to the cause list uploaded on the apex court’s website, a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will hear on April 15 Kejriwal’s petition challenging the Delhi High Court’s April 9 order. In a massive blow to the chief minister, the high court has upheld his arrest in the money-laundering case,…

·       External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar emphasized the imperative of a dynamic, rule-free response to combat the scourge emanating from across borders. ·       Jaishankar critiqued the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s handling of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008. ·       He lamented the lack of decisive action, attributing it to the perceived higher cost of retaliation against Pakistan. ·       Tracing the historical backdrop of India’s confrontation with terrorism, Jaishankar invoked seminal events such as the tribal invasion of Kashmir in 1947 and subsequent conflicts. ·       Jaishankar reiterated that the response to terrorism cannot be…

The National Investigation Agency’s new finding on the accused behind Bengaluru bomb blast led to West Bengal’s Kolkata and The Bharatiya Janata Party has alleged that the ruling Trinamool Congress has turned the state into a ‘safe haven for terrorists’ while TMC supremo hit back at the saffron party asking if Uttar Pradesh was safe under their rule. The accused Adbul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa and Mussavir Hussain Shazib, were nabbed at their hideout near Kolkata and according to NIA officials, they were concealing their true identities. As per reports, Taahaa…

Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Fake Shiv Sena’ remark, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said his party was not like the prime minister’s degree. “The Shiv Sena, founded by the Shiv Sena pramukh (Bal Thackeray) to fight for the rights of sons of soil, is being called fake. It is not your degree to call it fake,” Thackeray said. Thackeray’s retaliation came while speaking at a campaign rally at Boisar near Mumbai for his party’s Palghar Lok Sabha constituency candidate Bharti Kamdi. Earlier this week,…

The hearing in a special court on the 2018 defamation case against Rahul Gandhi was postponed to April 22 as the judge was on leave. The defamation complaint was filed in 2018 by the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Mishra against Rahul Gandhi over his alleged objectionable remarks against Home Minister Amit Shah. Mishra’s advocate, Santosh Pandey, said he gave an application to the court, seeking the issuance of a non-bailable warrant against Gandhi. But since the judge was on leave, the hearing could not take place and the matter…

Unemployment, price rise, corruption and quality of life are some of the major concerns for voters in India ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2024, according to a pre-poll survey conducted by the Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS). At least three-fifth of the survey’s respondents felt that finding job opportunities has become more difficult in the last five years. The survey findings come days after a report by International Labour Organisation (ILO) revealed grim findings on unemployment rates in India. More than 80 per cent of the country’s unemployed…