New Delhi [India], February 10 (ANI): The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday said that appeals challenging the acquittals of accused persons in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases need to be filed seriously by prosecution agencies and not just for the sake of it. A bench of justices, Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, was informed by Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Aishwarya Bhati, who represented the Delhi Police, that the state has asked prosecuting agencies to file Special Leave Petitions (SLPs). Also R...Read More
Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president B Mahesh Kumar Goud has claimed that the BRS is indirectly supporting the BJP in the upcoming MLC elections, similar to their actions during the last Lok Sabha elections. He alleged that the BRS has formed a covert agreement with the BJP to undermine the Congress in the MLC elections due to their inability to present candidates. Goud made these remarks after attending the nomination rally for party candidate V Narender Reddy, rep...Read More
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 10 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday met Minister Delegate to the Minister of Defence and Chief of Staff of the National Army of Algeria General Said Changeriha in Bengaluru at Aero India 2025. Singh called their meeting a "great interaction." Also Read | US: Judge Finds Trump Administration Hasn't Fully Followed Order To Unfreeze Federal Spending, Orders White House To Release All Money. In a post on X, he said, "Great interaction with th...Read More
Chennai: Drawing the curtains on a 63-year-old issue, the State Cabinet on Monday decided to give pattas to a total of 86,000 poor and ordinary people now occupying poramboke land, including 29,187 of them living in the non-objectionable regions in the 'belt areas' of the four districts surrounding Chennai, Chief Minister M K Stalin said. After presiding over the Cabinet meeting in Chennai, Stalin announced through a message on his X page, about the government decision to issue pattas to 57,084...Read More
New Delhi: Observing that "criminalisation of politics is a very major issue", the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre and Election Commission of India (ECI) to respond to a PIL challenging election of convicted persons as MPs/MLAs. The development took place during the resumed hearing of a plea filed by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, seeking lifelong disqualification of MPs and MLAs convicted of criminal offences. The PIL has challenged provisions of the Representation of the People Act (RPA...Read More
Hazaribag (Jharkhand), Feb 10 (PTI) The former SDO of Hazaribag Sadar, Ashok Kumar, an accused in connection with the death of his wife in December last year, was on Monday forwarded to judicial custody, officials said. Kumar was produced before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hazaribag, S Lamhe, who forwarded him to judicial custody. A team of police officers had apprehended Kumar, who had been absconding, from Ranchi on Sunday evening. Earlier on January 31, a local court had reject...Read More
12 Guwahati: Twenty-four hours after N Biren Singh relinquished his position as the chief minister of Manipur, his party, BJP, remains unable to establish a consensus replacement amid day-long closed-door deliberations in Imphal, heightening the likelihood of President's Rule being imposed in the strife-torn state. Extensive consultations between BJP's in-charge for northeast Sambit Patra, senior party leaders, and prospective candidates for the CM's post have yielded no definitive resolution, ...Read More
Imphal, Feb 10 (VOICE) A day after the resignation of Chief Minister N Biren Singh, the opposition Congress on Monday announced that they would oppose any move to promulgate President's rule in Manipur. Manipur Congress President Keisham Meghachandra Singh in a post on the X said: "For the people of Manipur, Congress party opposes any move to impose President's Rule in Manipur now as well as the party also opposes any move to place Manipur Legislative Assembly under suspended animation now." Co...Read More
Lucknow: With Prayagraj and neighbouring areas plagued by massive traffic snarls due to an unprecedented influx of visitors, a number expected to go up even further with the special Magh Purnima snan to take place on February 12, chief minister Yogi Adityanath held a video conference with senior officials to discuss the management of the event. During the meeting, the CM said that the past week had seen a significant increase in the influx of people into Prayagraj and in addition to public tran...Read More
Kolkata, Feb 10 (VOICE) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Monday, informed party legislators, that Trinamool Congress will be contesting alone in the Bengal Assembly elections in 2026 without having any understanding with another party including Congress. She told party legislators while having a meeting with the members of the party's legislative team in the West Bengal Assembly before the commencement of the first day of the budget session of the house on Monday afternoon. "Cong...Read More
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha witnessed an uproar on Monday when the ruling BJP, citing the Donald Trump administration's action against USAID, targeted Congress and the Gandhi family while seeking a probe into the USAID-funded Indian groups. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey demanded a probe into whether Congress and the Gandhi family-controlled Rajiv Gandhi Foundation had received USAID through George Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) for conducting activities, including the campaign for a caste census a...Read More
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 10 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday met Minister Delegate to the Minister of Defence and Chief of Staff of the National Army of Algeria General Said Changeriha in Bengaluru at Aero India 2025. Singh called their meeting a "great interaction." In a post on X, he said, "Great interaction with the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Defence and Chief of Staff of the National Army of Algeria General Said Changeriha in Bengaluru." https://x.c...Read More
Chandigarh, Feb 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major crackdown on fraudulent immigration consultants exploiting innocent individuals, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Punjab Police on Monday said it has taken action to dismantle the multinational human trafficking nexus operating in the region. This action pertains to the Indians who had been deported from the US and had landed in Amritsar. Punjab Police has recorded statements against travel agents who defrauded them with fals...Read More
New Delhi, India: An Israeli official stated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was consulting with security officials after Hamas announced on Monday that it would delay the next release of hostages, originally scheduled for Saturday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, added that Netanyahu had moved up a scheduled meeting of his Security Cabinet to Tuesday morning, instead of later in the day. Defence Minister Israel Katz called Hamas' decision ...Read More
Karimnagar: The state government is making significant progress in tackling the unemployment problem, while simultaneously fostering regional development, said irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Karimnagar district in-charge, here on Monday. He was addressing a rally that was taken out by the Congress for the Graduate MLC seat candidate V. Narendar Reddy from SRR College grounds to the collectorate, where he filed his nomination papers. Present on the occasion were TPCC chief B. Mahesh ...Read More
Ludhiana: Even as police termed Rajiv Raja, a close aide of BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu, minister of state for railways and food processing industries, as the main conspirator in the case of extortion of Rs 30 lakh from a local businessman, Bittu accused the police of harassing and implicating his aides by lodging FIRs against them. Police had arrested Rajiv Raja in the extortion case, in which another accused is a former employee of the victim. A police official, requesting anonymity, said ...Read More
New Delhi: With the Congress-AAP ties blighted by the Delhi Assembly poll debacle, Aam Aadmi Party's senior leader Sanjay Singh on Monday said that AAP's top leadership will take a call on the issue of continuing in the INDIA bloc. "The party leadership will take the call. No decision has been made so far," Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP, told India Today when asked if the AAP will remain a part of the INDIA bloc. Amid claims that the AAP-Congress bickering benefited the BJP in Delhi, unity and cohes...Read More
Vijayawada, February 10: Police in Andhra Pradesh's NTR district on Monday arrested three accused for rape and blackmail of an engineering student. The accused were presented before a court, which remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days. The arrests were made a day after the 19-year-old B.Tech student filed a complaint with Nandigama Rural police station. According to police, the victim was residing in a hostel in Paritala and doing her second year at an engineering college in Kanchikacher...Read More
New Delhi [India], February 10 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Monday that he would comment on the unity of the Opposition's INDIA bloc after a meeting of the parties in the alliance has been called. The question regarding INDIA bloc's unity arose after the Delhi election results, in which the BJP got a resounding victory and the Aam Aadmi Party faced defeat after governing the capital for over 10 years while the Congress failed to open their account. On Febru...Read More
Chennai: The overwhelming victory in the Erode East Assembly by-election and a series of storms in the AIADMK teacup have led to the DMK speculating on the AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami losing his grip over the party, whose cadre, as Law Minister S Regupathy claimed, had already started gravitating towards the DMK. While Regupathy told the media at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK headquarters, on Monday that the four years of good governance provided by the DMK had led to the people ...Read More
Kanpur: The Etawah police arrested four people in connection with the murder of a woman and her minor daughter. They committed this violent act against the victims due to disputes over property ownership. A tragic incident occurred near Mahera Chungi in the Friends Colony area on Sunday night when Harshvardhan, whose father was a retired chief medical officer, fatally shot his sister and her three-year-old daughter in Etawah district due to his displeasure over his father's decision regarding p...Read More
LUCKNOW: With a massive congregation of devotees at Mahakumbh and the incessant stream of pilgrims converging in Praygaraj, UP DGP Prashant Kumar issued a statement late on Monday night. "Mahakumbh 2025 is witnessing the largest congregation of humanity in history. With over 40 crore pilgrims having already taken a sacred dip at the Sangam and millions arriving each day, managing the unprecedented movement of people and vehicles is a challenge," he said. "No city, no administration, and no pol...Read More
Ballia (UP): Four police personnel have been suspended for alleged negligence in handling a land dispute case that led to the murder of two people in Sikandarpur area of Ballia district. Superintendent of Police Omveer Singh said on Friday that two people were killed in a violent clash between two groups in Khareed village on Wednesday night over a land dispute. In light of this, trainee sub-inspector Sumit Singh, head constable Sohan Sonkar, constables Vishanveer Chaudhary, and Vijay Prakash ...Read More
Kolkata, Feb 7 (VOICE) The Calcutta High Court on Friday said that the counsels of the accused in the case of multi-crore financial irregularities at state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata will be getting ample time to study the charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the matter after collecting it from the central agency office by the weekend.A division bench, headed by Justice Joymalya Bagchi, said that the counsel of the five accused in the case co...Read More
MUMBAI: Even as the state is in the process of scrutinising beneficiaries of its flagship Mukhya Mantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, the total number of beneficiaries has declined by 5 lakh over the period of just one month, officials have said. In Dec 2024, there were 2.46 crore beneficiaries who received a stipend of Rs 1,500 each. However, in Jan 2025, the number has reduced to 2.41 crore, officials said. One of the reasons is that almost 1.5 lakh beneficiaries over the age of 65 years have be...Read More
New Delhi [India], February 7 (ANI): Delhi BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva on Friday launched a sharp criticism of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders including former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh, stating that they have lost their "mental balance." This comes after Arvind Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh alleged that BJP is attempting to poach its MLAs. The Delhi BJP President further warned the leaders of legal action if they failed to submit any evidence. Speaking to ANI, Sachdeva s...Read More
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 7 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday rejected Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's allegation of alleged discrepancies in the 2024 Maharashtra assembly election stating that the Opposition leader, aware of his party's imminent defeat in Delhi election results was attempting to "cover fire." Earlier today addressing a press conference in the national capital Rahul Gandhi flanked by Supriya Sule and Sanjay Raut h...Read More
New Delhi: Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena on Friday ordered an anti-corruption branch (ACB) probe into allegations by AAP leaders that the BJP had attempted to poach its candidates, officials said. The direction to the chief secretary came in response to a representation by Delhi BJP general secretary Vishnu Mittal to the LG's office. Kejriwal on Thursday accused the BJP of attempting to poach 16 party candidates ahead of the Delhi Assembly poll results on February 8. He alleged that the AAP cand...Read More
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Friday said it will respond with full facts in writing after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that Maharashtra has more voters than the state's total population. Soon after Gandhi levelled the allegations at a press conference here, the poll body said in a post on X, "ECI considers political parties, as priority stakeholders, of course, the voters being the prime and deeply values views, suggestions, questions coming from political parties." "Commissio...Read More
New Delhi: The Congress, Shiv Sena-UBT and NCP-SS on Friday alleged irregularities in the voter lists of Maharashtra, claiming that a total of 39 lakh voters were added between Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the state. Addressing a joint press conference here, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed that the total number of voters added in Maharashtra was equivalent to the population of a state like Himachal Prades, and urged the Election Commission to provide them list of voters and come cle...Read More