Justice UU Lalit takes oath as 49th Chief Justice of India
Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was sworn in as 49th Chief Justice of India today, a day after the retirement of Justice NV Ramana. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office of the Chief Justice of India to Justice UU Lalit at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Justice UU Lalit succeeds Justice NV Ramana, who retired on August […]
SC dismisses plea challenging Allahabad HC judgement on 2007 Yogi Adityanath hate speech
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the Allahabad High Court judgement in a matter pertaining to the alleged hate speech of 2007 involving Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said it is not necessary to go into issue of denial of sanction in […]
Nitish Kumar exhorts alliance partners to unitedly fight BJP in LS polls
After winning the trust vote in Bihar Assembly, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is exhorting his Mahagathbandhan alliance partners to unitedly work towards wiping out BJP from the Centre. A meeting of the Mahagathbandhan’s leaders at the chief minister’s residence on Wednesday, deliberated on strategies to wipe out the Narendra Modi-led central government in the 2024 […]
Cong to announce poll schedule on 28 Aug for party president
To decide the poll schedule for party president’s post, the Congress has called a meeting of its Working Committee on August 28. Taking to Twitter, party general Secretary, K.C Venugopal tweeted, “A virtual meeting of the CWC will be held on the 28th August, 2022 at 3:30 PM, to approve the exact schedule of dates […]
Gujarat polls: Congress to make drugs issue its electoral plank
Exasperated at the deafening silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah on the flourishing narcotics business in Gujarat, Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked which members of the state and central governments were protecting the drugs mafia. The Congress declared its intention to make the drugs menace one of the main electoral […]
Rajasthan: Extremely heavy rainfall creates flood-like situation in Kota, nearby areas
Extremely heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours has created flood-like situation in parts of Rajasthan’s Kota and nearby areas, officials said on Monday. Low-lying areas have submerged under water owing to rainfall and water released from the barrage in Kota, they said. About 2.76 lakh cusec water has been released from the barrage so […]
Mumbai police get threat of ’26/11-style’ attacks on WhatsApp
Mumbai police’s traffic wing has received several text messages on its helpline number, threatening that a “26/11-like” attack will be carried out in the city by six persons and “preparations are on to blow up” the metropolis, an official said on Saturday. The police said that prima facie the number from which the messages were […]
Arvind Kejriwal launches ‘Missed Call’ campaign for his ‘national mission’
A few days ago, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a national mission to make India the number one country. On Friday, he issued a phone number for people who are willing to join the mission, amid CBI raid on deputy CM Manish Sisodia, reports PTI. “We announced the mission to ‘Make India Number One […]
Farmers on 75-hour protest in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri
The Bhartiya Kisan Union-Tikait (BKU-Tikait) and several other constituents of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella organisation of farmers, will hold a 75-hour sit-in at Rajapur Krishi-Utpadan Mandi Samiti in Lakhimpur Kheri from Thursday to press their pending demands. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha will hold the protest from August 18 to 20 to seek […]
India logs 9,062 Covid cases, 36 deaths in a day
India on Wednesday recorded 9,062 fresh COVID-19 infections that took its tally to 4,42,86,256, while the number of active cases came down to 1,05,058, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll climbed to 5,27,134 with 36 new fatalities, including six reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases […]
