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Bathinda: BJP MPKangana Ranaut appeared in a Bathinda court in a defamation case on Monday and said she regretted her retweet against a woman farmer, who she addressed as 'mataji'.On Oct 10, a local court rejected the actor-MP's plea to appear via video conference and ordered her to be present in person on Oct 27. Security was strengthened in and around Bathinda court ahead of Kangana's appearance.Kangana arrived around 2pm on Monday. It was brought to notice of the trial court judge Lakhbir Sin ...Read More >
The comment was made during the 2020-21 farmer protests against the now-repealed farm laws. (File) Bathinda/Chandigarh: Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut on Monday appeared before a court here in a defamation case and said there was a "misunderstanding" about her 2021 tweet and that every 'mata' (mother) is respectable to her. The court had last September directed the BJP MP from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh to be present in person and rejected her plea to appear via video conference. Security wa ...Read More >
Bathinda/Chandigarh, Oct 27 (PTI) Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut on Monday appeared before a court here in a defamation case and said there was a "misunderstanding" about her 2021 tweet and that every 'mata' (mother) is respectable to her. The court had last September directed the BJP MP from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh to be present in person and rejected her plea to appear via video conference. Security was beefed up in and around the Bathinda court complex ahead of the actor's appearance. T ...Read More >
The Supreme Court has permitted Ashish Mishra, an accused in the Lakhimpur violence case, to visit his hometown for Diwali. The court imposed a condition that political workers and the public should not be associated with the celebrations. The apex court also noted the progress of the trial, with 23 witnesses examined and nine dropped. The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Ashish Mishra, son of former union minister Ajay Mishra and an accused in the 2021 Lakhimpur violence case, to travel to hi ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) Paddy, wheat and maize farmers in Bihar have lost around Rs 10,000 crore in 2024-25 due to the non-implementation of Minimum Support Price according to the C2+50 per cent formula given by the MS Swaminathan-chaired National Commission on Farmers, the All India Kisan Sabha said on Thursday. Overall, in the year 2024-25, farmers cultivating the 20 major Kharif and Rabi crops could have earned nearly Rs 3 lakh crore more if their produce had been procured at prices fixed as ...Read More >
His meeting with the Congress leadership comes amid buzz that Joshi might be the party's pick for the upcoming Tarn Taran Assembly bypoll. An RSS worker, Joshi is a known Hindu leader in Punjab and is regarded as a sharp, outspoken leader. A two-time MLA from Amritsar North, Joshi had served as a cabinet minister in the 2012 SAD-BJP government, handling the local bodies and medical education portfolio. He also remained the industry minister before that for 1.5 years. He was expelled from the s ...Read More >
Lucknow: Senior Samajwadi Party leader and former minister Gayatri Prajapati was attacked by a fellow inmate inside Lucknow Jail on Tuesday. The scuffle took place within the jail premises, after which prison authorities launched an internal inquiry. According to a statement issued by Dr Ramdhani, DIG Prisons, Lucknow Range, the incident occurred after Prajapati allegedly used abusive language towards another inmate, Vishwas Rajput. In response, Vishwas attacked Prajapati using a sharp object i ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Oct 1 (PTI) The Punjab Congress on Wednesday launched a signature campaign as part of the party's nationwide 'Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod' (vote thieves, quit throne) drive under which five crore signatures will be submitted to the Election Commission on October 15. The party's Punjab in-charge and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Bhagel said 15 lakh signatures will be submitted from Punjab. Baghel claimed the BJP has been "exposed completely" after the revelations made by par ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Sep 30 (PTI) Former Punjab minister Anil Joshi is likely to join the Congress here on Wednesday, party sources said on Tuesday. Joshi had met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal in Delhi a few days ago sparking speculation about his joining the party. A former BJP leader, he was expelled from the party after he criticised the central government for "mishandling" the farm agitation against the now-repealed farm laws in 2021. Thereaf ...Read More >
Bathinda, Sep 29 (PTI) A court here on Monday directed actor and MP Kangana Ranaut to be present in person on October 27 in a defamation case, rejecting her plea for appearing through video-conferencing. The defamation case stems from the actor's retweet consisting of her own comment about complainant Mahinder Kaur of Bahadurgarh Jandian village in Punjab's Bathinda district during the 2020-21 farmer protests against the now-repealed farm laws. Ranaut's counsel had submitted an application see ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators trooped to the well of the House during the special session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, raising slogans "Modi ji jumle band karo" and carrying placards which read, "Modi ji da 1600 cr da jumla," in a sarcastic reference to the Prime Minister's announcement of Rs 1600 crore financial assistance during his visit to flood-affected Punjab earlier this month.The protest by ruling party legislators continued for nearly three minutes before Punja ...Read More >
The Punjab and Haryana High Court had dismissed a smiliar petition last month. New Delhi: Denied relief by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut has approached the Supreme Court for cancelling a case against her in connection with alleged defamatory remarks made during the 2020-21 protests against three farm laws. A Supreme Court bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta will hear her petition on Friday. Ms Ranaut, who is the Member of Parliament from Mandi ...Read More >
VISAKHAPATNAM: The depression over northwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal and north Andhra Pradesh - south Odisha coasts moved north-north-westwards and crossed South Odisha coast close to Gopalpur during early morning of Tuesday and lay cantered over south coastal Odisha. Weatherman said it was likely to move north-westwards across south Odisha and south Chhattisgarh and weaken into a well-marked low-pressure area during next few hours. Under its influence, thunderstorms accompani ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 19 (PTI) The Samyukt Kisan Morcha on Tuesday opposed a government notification allowing duty-free import of raw cotton till September 30, calling it a death warrant for cotton framers across the country. In a statement issued here, the amalgam of farmer unions accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "duplicity and betrayal". "The government has said that the elimination of import duty on cotton as well as Agriculture Infrastructure Development Cess (AIDC) is necessary in the pub ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A 50-year-old man died and his daughter was injured on Thursday morning when a tree fell on them while they were riding a motorcycle in southeast Delhi's Kalkaji area amid heavy rainfall in the national capital. According to a senior police officer, around 9:50 am, an old roadside Neem tree suddenly fell in front of HDFC Bank near Paras Chowk, Kalkaji. Two people a motorcycle trapped under it. They have been identified as Sudhir Kumar and his daughter Priya (22). Upon recieving info ...Read More >
Chennai, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu BJP spokesperson A.N.S. Prasad launched a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of a sustained 11-year campaign to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Election Commission of India (ECI). Prasad alleged that Rahul Gandhi's recent "vote theft" remarks were an attempt to equate the ECI - an independent constitutional body - with the Congress party's "corrupt and self-serving" governance legacy. The senior BJP leader asser ...Read More >
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that the NDA government had sent the late Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to "threaten" him for trying to fight against the farm laws that were introduced by the Narendra Modi government earlier. "I remember when I was fighting the farm laws, Arun Jaitley was sent to me to threaten me. He told me, 'If you carry on opposing the government, fighting the farm laws, we will have to act against you. ' I looked at him and said 'I don't think you ha ...Read More >
* Punjab and Haryana HC dismissed Kangana Ranaut's plea to quash defamation complaint * Complaint filed by Mahinder Kaur in 2021 over a retweet by Kangana Ranaut during farmer protests * Kangana Ranaut was accused of wrongly identifying the complainant as Bilkis Bano of Shaheen Bagh Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday dismissed a plea of BJP MP Kangana Ranaut seeking quashing of a defamation complaint against h ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by actor-turned-MP Kangana Ranaut challenging her summoning by a Punjab court in a defamation case, making it clear that the magistrate has duly applied mind to the material on record while summoning her.Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya, in a detailed 15-page order, said, "There are specific allegations against the petitioner who is a celebrity, that false and defamatory imputations by her in the retweet have dented the r ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut for quashing a defamation case against her by a Bathinda-based elderly protester. Ranaut, who is BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi seat, had sought quashing of the criminal case filed against her under Sections 499 and 500 IPC as well as the summoning order issued by Bathinda district court on February 22, 2022, and all the subsequent proceedings in the matter. It may ...Read More >
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], July 9 (ANI): As part of the nationwide strike called by central trade unions and farmer organisations, workers across Himachal Pradesh joined protests at district and block headquarters, bringing public services to a near halt in several areas, including the state capital, Shimla. Braving heavy rains, hundreds of workers, including sanitation staff, health workers, bank employees, and anganwadi and midday meal workers, participated in demonstrations demanding ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) The Supreme Court would hear a matter related to the health of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on an indefinite fast pressing for demands, and other pleas on January 15. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh would hear a plea filed on behalf of Dallewal for a direction to the Central government for implementing a proposal, including a legal guarantee of MSP on crops, made to the protesting farmers in 2021 after the farm laws were repealed. The ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jan 2 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday claimed that the Centre was trying to"bring back" the now-repealed farm laws, referring to the newly announced draft of the National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing. The AAP-led Punjab government has termed the newly announced draft policy as an attempt to reintroduce the three central agricultural laws passed in 2020 "through backdoor." After a yearlong protest by farmers, the Centre had repealed the laws. Spea ...Read More >
Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal's hunger strike enters its 17th day. His health is critical. The Supreme Court urges dialogue between the government and Dallewal. Dallewal demands MSP guarantee and other farmer-centric issues. He has written an open letter to the Prime Minister. Farmers' organizations continue their protests at the Punjab-Haryana border.The Supreme Court on Friday expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health of Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, wh ...Read More >
Thousands of farmers have launched a protest march from Noida to Delhi today, demanding solutions to long-standing issues, including fair compensation for land acquisition, better crop prices, and loan waivers. Organised by various farmer unions, the march began from the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway and is expected to culminate at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Protesters are also pressing for the implementation of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) guarantee and the withdrawal of cases filed against f ...Read More >
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