Largely along expected lines, the two warring allies within the Maharashtra government — the BJP and the Shiv Sena — are now reported to be wooing Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress Party. Shiv Sena head Uddhav Thackeray met with Pawar ten days ago, said CNN News18, and was reportedly told by the veteran politician to […]
Kamal Haasan today announced the launch of a new app called Mayyam or Whistle, in an attempt to organize people for a political movement, and said there was no question of turning back. “If I call such a huge press meeting and I say, I am still thinking about it, it would be unfair and […]
Ashokan Mani, who has accused the Popular Front of India of trying to kidnap his daughter into Syria, today said he had no problems with his daughter converting to Islam or marrying a Muslim. Ashokan, who has been asked by the Supreme Court to produce the girl Fadiya by Nov 27, said his problem was […]
The Supreme Court today asked the government to produce Fadiya, previously known as Akhila Ashokan, before Nov 27 in the controversial ‘Love Jihad’ case from Kerala. In the petition filed by Fadiya’s ex-husband Shafeen Jahan, the court came to the conclusion that it would need to speak to the girl after conflicting allegations were leveled […]
Madrasas in Uttar Pradesh state of India will soon start teaching from science and maths textbooks printed by the NCERT, deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma said today. “Madrasas will teach using NCERT text books. The board has started preparations,” Sharma said today. Science and maths have been made mandatory from high-school level in all schools. […]
Taking a jibe at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s ‘increasing love for Dalits’, Dalit leader Ramdas Athawale said the chronic bachelor and heir to the Congress Party should now get married to a Dalit girl. Speaking at a function in Akola in Maharashtra, Athawale said Gandhiji wanted to erase the scourge of caste from India […]
Former union home minister P Chidambaram today said India should ‘seriously consider’ giving autonomy to the state of Jammu & Kashmir. Chidambaram, who was in charge of maintaining law and order in the hill state for several years as part of his role as India’s home minister, is the head of his party’s standing committee […]
BJP leader and libertarian politician Subramanian Swamy said he believes that the design of Aadhaar system exposes core data to ‘American intelligence agencies’ and expressed consternation that the government was continuing with the unique identification number scheme. Speaking to Mirror Now on the controversies around the linking of bank accounts, tax accounts and mobile numbers […]
A non-bailable arrest warrant has been issued against Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti leader Hardik Patel and Lalji Patel in a two-year-old case related to violence at a rally. The warrant was issued in relation to violence seen in the aftermath of a rally in Vishnagar town of Mehsana district in Gujarat on July 24, 2015. […]
The results of the bypoll held in Vengara assembly constituency in Kerala have confirmed the Congress-led UDF’s worries about losing support in the southern state. The results also showed that the BJP suffered a decline in popularity in Kerala in the last 18 months or so. The election, which comes a year-and-a-half after the last […]
The Indian supreme court has held that sexual intercourse with a girl below the age of 18 years will automatically qualify as rape, even if the woman is the wife of the accused. At present, it is considered rape only if the wife is below 15 years. The ruling, by a bench headed by Justice […]
See more In an attempt to drum up public support for its fight with the Left Front in Kerala, the BJP’s Delhi unit has in the heart of the national capital placed grisly photographs of political killings in the southern state. The banners, some of which carry ‘hashtags’ such as ‘CPMTablibanism’, contain color photographs […]
The Gujarat High Court has upheld the conviction of a special court that found 31 people to be involved in a conspiracy to commit the arson attack on the train. However, eleven death sentences were commuted to the life terms. The victims or the kins have been ordered to be compensated by up to Rs […]
Doklam is in the news again, 40 days after the Chinese pulled back their construction equipment on the border plateau in deference to Indian sensitivities. With two weeks to go for the crucial National Congress of the Communist Party of China, India’s northern neighbor has again started construction activity near Doklam. Apart from some verbal […]
A survey by industry association Assocham has found that the majority of people who send their children to government schools are “overwhelmingly satisfied” with the performance of the schools. Improving the performance of government schools has been a high priority for the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi, and the task was taken up by […]
The Kerala ‘Love Jihad’ case saw a twist today with the Supreme Court making pointed observations while hearing the appeal against a decision by the Kerala High Court to annul the marriage of a Hindu girl who converted to Islam. The court observed that it will examine the question of whether the High Court overstepped […]
Anila Singh, one of the official spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh, today said that Taj Mahal was a controversial monument and that its roots stretched back to a temple of Shiva. Singh, who is often on TV to defend the Yogi Adityanath government, was responding to questions about why the monument […]
India’s oldest English television news broadcaster NDTV officially denied that it has been sold to Ajay Singh, the promoter of SpiceJet. “We wish to inform you that the promoters of the Company have not entered into any agreement for sale of their stake in the Company to any person,” NDTV Ltd said in an official […]
Tensions are on the rise between the ruling CPI-M and the Social Democratic Party of India in Ambalapuzha in Kerala after Left activists were attacked, allegedly for arranging the wedding of a Muslim boy and a Hindu girl. The SDPI is second only to the Indian Union Muslim League in terms of its vote-share and […]
As expected, two of the three factions within the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam or AIADMK party came together, expelling former chief VK Sasikala and installing former chief minister O Paneerselvam as the new ‘chief co-ordinator’. The leader of the second faction and current chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Edappadi K Palaniswami has been […]
