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New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Sukanta Majumdar, the Union Minister of State for Education and Development of North Eastern Region, condemned the crisis in Malda, where seven judicial officers were detained following protests over voter deletions under the ongoing SIR process. Criticising the recent violence, Majumdar asserted that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's statements are responsible for the prevailing volatile situation on the ground. Also Read | Indian Stock Market Crash: Sensex Fa ...Read More >
HAZARIBAG: Police have arrested a 35-year-old mother, an occult practitioner, and a man in connection with the strangulation of a teenage girl during a sacrificial ritual in Kusumbha village, officials said on Wednesday.According to Hazaribag SP Anjani Anjan and DIG Anjani Jha announced the arrests during a late-night press briefing.The arrested include Reshmi Devi, the mother of the girl, 55-year-old Shanti Devi, an occultist, and 40-year-old Bhim Ram, all residents of the same village.Anjan sa ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Opposition protests against the bill to amend the foreign contribution regulation law rocked Parliament on Wednesday, forcing adjournment of proceedings in Lok Sabha amid allegations that the BJP was trying to control independent NGOs.Opposition MPs also held a protest in the Parliament complex. As LS was convened, opposition members started raising slogans against the FCRA (Amendment) Bill. Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju said the bill seeks to protect national security a ...Read More >
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the "valuable" right to vote cannot be "washed out" in a manner that creates an "oppressive" situation for citizens as it allowed tribunals set up in West Bengal to hear appeals of voters in the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercise to even examine fresh documents after verification. The order was passed by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on being informed that 19 tribunals headed by former high court chief ju ...Read More >
AKOLA: An Akola cop, Rajesh Jadhav, was suspended late Tuesday after a woman in police lockup alleged he sought sexual favours from her. An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) at Civil Lines police station here, Jadhav is currently on the run. He was later arrested on Wednesday.Police sources said, the woman was in custody in connection with an alleged Rs 80 lakh cyber fraud case and was remanded in police custody. Jadhav was on duty as a lockup guard, when he offered money in exchange for sexual favo ...Read More >
On Sunday, two prominent NCP leaders spoke out in support of a merger, contrary to the measured silence of top NCP leaders immediately after Ajit Pawar's demise, when the NCP (SP) leadership claimed a merger was in the works before he died. "If both the parties are to come together and the NCP is to grow under the leadership of deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar, the time has not passed yet," said Sunil Shelke, NCP MLA from Maval, who is considered an Ajit Pawar loyalist. Shelke was supported ...Read More >
Sultanpur (UP), Apr 1 (PTI) The Special MP/MLA Court here on Wednesday stayed proceedings against Gauriganj MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh in a case of alleged assault on a local BJP leader inside a police station. Special Magistrate Shubham Verma on Wednesday ordered a halt to the trial after the defence submitted a copy of a directive from the Allahabad High Court. Advocate Ravivansh Singh Pankaj, appearing for the defence, told the MP/MLA court that on March 17, the high court had stayed proceedin ...Read More >
Hazaribag: The daylong bandh called by opposition BJP in Hazaribag on Monday to protest the rape and brutal murder of a 12-year-old girl last week, witnessed near-complete shutdown. The saffron camp also staged protests across all district headquarters to criticise poor law and order situation in the state.Amba Prasad, national secretary of the Congress, part of the ruling alliance govt in the state, also led a separate protest in Hazaribag, demanding CBI probe into the incident.The victim's bod ...Read More >
Nalanda: Authorities have initiated several actions following the stampede at the Sheetla Mata Temple at Maghra village under Deepnagar police station area in Nalanda district on Tuesday morning that left at least nine devotees dead and several others injured.Holding the temple committee largely responsible for the tragic incident, the police on late Tuesday evening lodged an FIR against present temple committee officials, priests and many others.In a late Tuesday night raid, the police arrested ...Read More >
Berhampur: Gajapati police on Wednesday seized around 1.83 tonnes of ganja worth around Rs 2 crore from Buripadara village under R. Udayagiri police station limits. The contraband was seized from different places in the village and was suspected to have been stored to be transported illegally to some other areas, said in-charge SP (Gajapati) Saravana Vivek M.No arrest has been made. "The accused persons fled into the nearby forest after seeing police vehicles," said sub-divisional police officer ...Read More >
Rourkela/Jamshedpur: A day after state director general of police Y B Khurania appealed to the Maoists to surrender before the centre's deadline of March 31, a 19-year-old woman rebel surrendered before Rourkela police on Monday.Mongadi Honhaga, a member of the local guerrilla squad of the CPI(Maoist)'s South Chotanagra division, hails from Holomuli village under Chotanagra police station in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district.West Singhbhum superintendent of police (SP) Amit Renu said that they ...Read More >
Patna, April 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a swift crackdown following the alleged molestation and attempted sexual assault of a married woman in Nalanda district, Bihar Police have arrested eight accused so far, said SP Bharat Soni on Wednesday. The incident, which occurred in a village under the Noorsarai police station area, came to light after a disturbing video of the assault went viral on social media. Confirming the development, Nalanda Superintendent of Police Bharat Soni stated that six more ...Read More >
Hazaribag/Ranchi: Police on Wednesday claimed that the 12-year-old girl, whose body was found in Hazaribag district last week, wasn't sexually assaulted, even as the political war of words continued over the incident.Based on the post-mortem report, police said that the death was caused due to asphyxia as culprits pressed her mouth and nose, leading to suffocation. Police officer Sapan Mahtha said, "Post-mortem report has rejected the rape claim. Even the claim of cutting of her tongue and break ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 1 (PTI) Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday asked opposition leaders not to indulge in empty rhetoric and submit any evidence they possess to the SIT, which is probing various allegations against rape accused 'godman' Ashok Kharat. The minister was reacting to demands raised by the opposition NCP (SP) seeking a thorough probe into the purported links of political leaders with Kharat based on their photos with him. Kharat was arrested on March 18 after ...Read More >
New Delhi/Alappuzha, April 1 (PTI) A discussion in the Lok Sabha on a bill to amend the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) scheduled for Wednesday was deferred amid a political slugfest, with the opposition alleging that the new measures could curb minority rights and tighten government control over NGOs. The BJP, on its part, defended the bill as necessary for national security and transparency, and asserted it does not target any religious organisation. As the rival parties traded ch ...Read More >
BHOPAL: In a major setback to the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, a special MP/MLA court in Delhi on Wednesday convicted senior party MLA Rajendra Bharti in a bank fixed deposit cheating and forgery case. After convicting the three-time legislator from the Datia seat in northern Madhya Pradesh, the special court sent the 68-year-old to Tihar Jail. The court will decide the quantum of punishment for Bharti and co-convict Raghuvir Sharan Prajapati on Thursday. If the court sentences Bharti to two ye ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 1 (PTI) The Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea filed by actor Anita Advani seeking recognition of her alleged relationship with late Bollywood superstar Rajesh Khanna as a marriage. A single bench of Justice Sharmila Deshmukh dismissed the appeal filed by Advani challenging an order passed by the Dindoshi sessions court in Mumbai in 2017 rejecting her civil suit seeking similar relief after Khanna's death in July 2012. A detailed copy of the HC order dismissing the app ...Read More >
Odisha Police arrested two persons and took a boy into custody in connection with the incident. The girl was allegedly drugged and raped by two men in Berhampur city on March 29, an officer said, adding that a police team rescued her after receiving information from locals. Berhampur Superintendent of Police Saravana Vivek M said that three persons were taken to custody, of whom two adults of 23 years and 19 years were arrested, while a 15-year-old boy was sent to a juvenile home. Apart from ...Read More >
Vijayawada/New Delhi, Apri 1 (UNI) During the Lok Sabha proceedings today, leaders representing the TDP-led NDA government in Andhra Pradesh strongly advocated for the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026, while YSRCP MP Midhun Reddy opposed the Bill on behalf of the YSR Congress Party, following which YSRCP MPs staged a walkout from Parliament. The Lok Sabha passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 on Wednesday after detailed deliberations, that will form ...Read More >
Gonda (UP), Apr 1 (PTI) A Government Railway Police constable lost both his legs after being hit by a moving train as he chased a fleeing suspect at the Gonda Junction railway station, officials said on Wednesday. The incident occurred around midnight on Tuesday at platform number one when Akash Singh (29), a 2018-batch recruit and a native of Mau district, had taken Sunil Kumar (35) into custody on charges of assault and alleged theft, Government Railway Police (GRP) SHO Dinesh Kumar Pandey sa ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 1 (PTI) Maharashtra minister Aditi Tatkare on Wednesday said NCP workers will support whatever decision party chief Sunetra Pawar takes about the merger of rival NCP factions. Claims and counter-claims about the possible merger of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) cropped up following the death of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in a plane crash on January 28. Ajit Pawar then headed the ruling NCP, while his wife Sunetra Pawar currently helms the pa ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 1 (PTI) Maharashtra NCP chief Sunil Tatkare has said that merger talks between the two NCP factions were underway when then Deputy CM Ajit Pawar was alive, an admission coming weeks after a denial when the Sharad Pawar-led party had acknowledged deliberations on reunification. Tatkare also said he was not opposed to the merger talks even as he insisted that the NCP will remain aligned with the BJP-led NDA. Reacting to Tatkare's remarks during an interview with a Marathi news channel ...Read More >
Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) president Isudan Gadhvi was allegedly detained by the police in Dwarka on Wednesday afternoon, the party alleged, even as the police denied the development. "Gadhvi has not been detained at the moment, but some legal processes are underway," Superintendent of Police Jayrajsinh Vala told The Indian Express. In a video statement shortly thereafter, Visavadar MLA Gopal Italia said, "At 2:30 pm today (April 1), Isudan Gadhvi was detained by the police at the Khambhali ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 1 (PTI) The NCP (SP) on Wednesday demanded a thorough probe into the links of political leaders with self-styled godman Ashok Kharat on the basis of their photos with him, while Maharashtra minister Aditi Tatkare asserted these pictures do not imply the politicians endorsed his wrongdoings. Tatkare also said the state government has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to conduct a probe against Kharat and facts will come to light. Talking to reporters, NCP (SP)'s Maharas ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Lok Sabha on Wednesday unanimously passed a Bill to grant statutory recognition to Amaravati as the sole capital of Andhra Pradesh. The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was passed by a voice vote after a two-hour-long debate, which saw the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Congress, Samajwadi Party and others supporting the Bill. However, Dharmendra Yadav of Samajwadi Party while supporting the Bill said if Visakhapatnam was develop ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) An amendment bill which provides graded punishment for bodily harm to transgender persons has received the assent of President Draupadi Murmu. Opposition MPs had slammed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, for excluding gays and lesbians from its ambit. An authority has been established to determine whether a person is transgender, a provision that also faced backlash from the opposition. According to a law ministry notification dated March ...Read More >
The Naxal insurgency thrived in the area as there were lot of sympathisers and supporters. Gadchiroli: Maharashtra was one of the partially affected states and Gadchiroli was an integral part of the Maoist theatre, and it was an integral part of what the insurgents called the Dandakaranya region. Till about four months back Gadchiroli was among the worst affected Left Wing Extremist (LWE) districts in the country. The Naxal insurgency thrived in the area as there were lot of sympathisers and ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Opposition parties on Wednesday criticised the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government for the introduction of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill (FCRA), 2026, in the Lok Sabha, calling the Bill 'malafide' and 'undemocratic'. While the BJP, in its defence, said the Bill aims to regulate foreign funding and is in 'national interest'. The Bill was introduced on March 25 by Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, dur ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Dharmendra Yadav on Wednesday took a swipe at the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the Lok Sabha, saying those who have sided with the BJP have 'suffered'. Participating in a debate on a bill to make Amaravati the sole and permanent capital of Andhra Pradesh, he referred to the TDP as "cycle walon" and suggested they should join the opposition. He referred to JDU leader Nitish Kumar shifting to the Rajya Sabha by giving up his Bihar chief ministershi ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, triggered a political storm on Wednesday, with several Opposition MPs strongly criticising the proposed FCRA Amendment Bill and accusing the Centre of attempting to centralise control over institutions while "legalising bulldozer raj." Speaking to the media outside Parliament, Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Dimple Yadav stated that the introduction of the Bill aims to force conformity across both government a ...Read More >
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