India’s top court rules sex with an underage wife is rape
October 11, 2017 NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Wednesday ruled that a man is committing rape if he engages in sexual intercourse with his wife who is aged between 15 and 18, a landmark decision that will affect millions of child brides. The legal age of consent is 18 years. The law regards even […]
Arun Jaitley says attempts to derail GST have failed
Washington: Despite “attempts to derail” the recently introduced goods and services tax (GST), the states are adopting the new regime at a fast pace, finance minister Arun Jaitley has said. Jaitley was responding to a question on the biggest challenges for GST during a conversation with Dan Schulman, president and CEO of Paypal and Chandrajit Banerjee […]
Huge 2014 Defeat Knocked Sense Into Us, Admits Rahul Gandhi
October 10, 2017 NEW DELHI: On his campaign tour in Gujarat, Rahul Gandhi explained today that a humiliating defeat at the hands of the BJP in the 2014 national election helped him “a lot”. The brief concession stood out as Mr Gandhi took generous digs at the ruling party and the Jay Shah controversy on Prime Minister Narendra […]
BJP top guns attack Rahul in Amethi
Amethi, Oct 10: BJP leaders including party President Amit Shah on Tuesday launched a concerted attack on Rahul Gandhi, questioning his work for the development of his constituency Amethi and asking people to defeat him and the Congress in the next Lok Sabha election. Addressing a public meeting, Shah spoke for around half hour but […]
300 school children in UP’s Shamli taken ill after inhaling toxic gas
October 10, 2017 Around 300 students were taken ill on Tuesday after inhaling toxic gas emitted by a sugar mill near their school in Shamli district, the police said. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered a probe into the matter by Commissioner Saharanpur. The students of a private school in Shamli started complaining […]
Congress asks PM Modi to remove Amit Shah as BJP chief
October 09, 2017 The Congress on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remove Amit Shah as Bharatiya Janata Party president and demanded a probe into claims in a media report that a firm owned by Shah’s son saw a huge rise in turnover after the party came to power in 2014. Congress vice president […]
Government will modernise marine security, says PM Modi
7 Oct 2017 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday that the Centre is looking closely on Marine Policing sector and assured that the government will modernise the marine security as well. PM Modi said that the government will also set up an institute of marine security in Dwarka which will draw people and experts from […]
It’s one nation, seven taxes: Congress on GST
October 07, 2017 The Congress on Saturday accused the Modi government of wasting an opportunity to put India on the growth path through goods and services tax, which it said should be a ‘good and simple tax’ rather than a ‘grossly scary tax’. Congress communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala said GST had failed to provide any real relief to the […]
Delhi shocker: Six-year-old raped in south Delhi school, accused staff arrested
Updated: October 5, 2017 A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 23-year-old employee of a private school in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar area on Wednesday afternoon. The girl, a Class I student, had gone to washroom in the middle of her classes when she was allegedly raped. The accused, a housekeeping staff hired 15 […]
Shah abandons Kerala yatra for urgent meet with PM
October 05, 2017 Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Thursday did not participate in the party march in the home town of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan as he had to attend a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kerala BJP president Kummanam Rajasekharan told reporters that Shah would be unable to attend the […]
