Triple talaq: Salman Khurshid hopes SC will harmonise different views
New Delhi: Hinting towards the difference in his and All India Muslim Personal Law Board's (AIMPLB) opinion, amicus curiae in the triple talaq matter Salman Khurshid suggested that the court should harmonise different views so that becomes one acceptable view...
SC reserves verdict on triple talaq
New Delhi: The Supreme Court reserves its verdict on the batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of triple talaq practice among Muslims. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice J. S. Khehar heard the issue for six days during...
Dr Harsh Vardhan takes over environment ministry after Dave’s death
New Delhi: Dr Harsh Vardhan gets additional charge of Environment Ministry after Anil Dave's death. Dr Harsh Vardhan holds the Science & Technology, Earth Sciences portfolio. Environment Minister Anil Dave passed away in New Delhi on Thursday. He was 60. Dave...
26-yr-old Naval cadet from Kerala dies of cardiac arrest
Kannur : A 26-year-old INA cadet died today following cardiac arrest in Hospital, officials at the Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala in Kannur district said. Gudeppa Sooraj, a first term Indian Naval Academy Course (INAC) cadet, was found in an...
Zomato’s 1.7 crore user records hacked
Online restaurant guide and food delivery app Zomato admitted to a security breach today. On a blog post, Zomato said that about 17 million user records from its database had been stolen. "The stolen information has user email addresses and...
Husband shot dead allegedly by wife’s Jat relatives in Jaipur for marrying her
Jaipur: A young, pregnant woman from Jaipur says she saw her husband murdered. Her parents, who had come calling at time, had hired the killers, she alleged. Mamata Chaudhary, 30, had married Amit Nayyar, an engineer from Kerala a year-and-a half...
Three decades after Bofors scandal, India to get its first howitzer guns
Representational Pic New Delhi: In a major boost for the Indian Army, the first two guns out of the 145 M777 ultra light artillery guns, manufactured by BAE Systems in the US, were delivered to India on Thursday. Notably, the guns...
Interesting to see Goliath nervous: Arnab on Times Now complaint
Mumbai: Republic TV chief Arnab Goswami's response to Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. filing a complaint against him for IPR violations. The company lodged a complaint against Goswami and reporter Prema Sridevi for 'commission of offences of theft, criminal breach of...
Environment minister Anil Dave passes away
New Delhi: Environment Minister Anil Dave passed away early this morning. He was 60. "Absolutely shocked by the sudden demise of my friend & a very respected colleague, Environment Minister Anil Madhav Daveji. My condolences. Anil Madhav Daveji will be remembered as...
Defamation case: Heated exchanges between Arun Jaitley and Ram Jethmalani in Delhi HC
New Delhi: Heated exchanges were witnessed between Union Minister Arun Jaitley and senior advocate Ram Jethmalani in the Delhi High Court today during the former’s cross-examination in a defamation case against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The recording of Jaitley’s statement...
Cabinet clears proposal to build 10 atomic reactors
New Delhi: To ramp up nuclear power generation in the country, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a proposal to build 10 indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors. Each reactor will have the capacity to produce 700 MW of electricity." A...
Times Now hits Arnab with criminal complaint over IPR in Republic’s exposes
File Pic New Delhi: Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, which owns the Times Now news channel, filed a criminal complaint against senior journalists Arnab Goswami and Prema Sridevi -- former Times Now employees who now work at Goswami's newly-launched venture...
AAP crisis: AAP MLA Somdutt put on trial for offence of rioting
New Delhi: AAP MLA Somdutt was on Wednesday put on trial by a Delhi court for the alleged offences of rioting, wrongfully restraining and assaulting a man during the 2015 assembly election campaign. Metropolitan Magistrate Ruby Neeraj Kumar framed charges against...
Girl students in Rewari end hunger strike after upgradation of school
Chandigarh: The Haryana government on Wednesday announced their decision to upgrade the Government High School in Rewari to the level of Senior Secondary School, eight days after the Gandhian protest by a group of 86 village girls. Talking to media, Haryana...
Sukma attack avenged: 15 Maoists killed in three encounters in Chhattisgarh
Representational Pic Raipur: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Tuesday claimed to have gunned down 10-15 Maoists in Bastar's Dantewada in a huge operation. The operation was conducted days after the recent Maoist attack on a CRPF contingent that claimed...
Arvind Kejriwal went for movie ‘Sarkar 3’, but rarely visited CM office, says suspended AAP leader Kapil Mishra
New Delhi: Suspended AAP leader Kapil Mishra on Wednesday again hit out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The former Delhi water minister has posted a blog on his twitter account and taken pot shots at the AAP convenor over range...
Read how Kashmiris dodge internet ban
File Pic Srinagar: The month-long ban imposed by the Jammu and Kashmir government on social media applications and internet sites to curb the unrest in the Valley has come a cropper with almost everyone accessing these platforms using Virtual Private...
RJD, BJP workers clash in Patna after Income Tax raids on Lalu Prasad’s kin
Patna: A day after the Income-Tax department conducted searches at 22 locations in Delhi NCR in connection with alleged benami lands deals involving Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, his party workers on Wednesday clashed with members of the Bharatiya...
Australia may ban laptops in airplane cabins
New Delhi: Australia is considering following the United States and Britain in banning laptops from inbound airliner cabins, the prime minister said, but declined to explain whether the move was related to an Islamic State group threat that President Donald...
IAS officer found dead under mysterious circumstances
Lucknow: An Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer was found dead in a guest house in Lucknow on Wednesday. The deceased, Anurag Tiwari, was a 2007-batch officer who was posted in Food Supply department in Karnataka. Tiwari originally hailed from Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich. As...
Can the bride refuse triple talaq in nikaahnama, SC asks AIMPLB
New Delhi: A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court is hearing the contentious triple talaq case. Yesterday, equating the issue with the belief that Lord Rama was born in Ayodhya, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board had told the...
