German police arrested a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian doctor, Taleb Abdul Jawad, who allegedly rammed a car into a Christmas market in Magdeburg. Video footage of the incident circulated on social media platforms shows a speeding black BMW SUV smashed through protective barriers in the bustling festive market on Friday evening, December 20. This horrific incident … Read more
Lok Sabha New Delhi: Two bills that lay down the mechanism to hold simultaneous elections were introduced in the Lok Sabha after a fiery debate on Tuesday, December 17. Opposition parties dubbed the draft laws — a Constitution amendment bill and an ordinary bill — as an attack on the federal structure, a charge rejected … Read more
New Delhi: Congress MP Manish Tewari has given a notice to oppose the introduction of a Bill on the One Nation, One Election by the government in the Lok Sabha. “I give notice of my intention to oppose introduction of The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 Bill, 2024 under Rule 72 of … Read more
Kolkata: The West Bengal Joint Platform of Doctors (WBJPD) was planning to begin a sit-in demonstration in the heart of Kolkata from Tuesday over the CBI investigation into the RG Kar hospital rape and murder case, in which two key suspects were granted bail. The proposed demonstration of the WBJPD, an umbrella organisation of five … Read more
Chandigarh: Farmers are set to resume their ‘Delhi Chalo’ foot march on Saturday, pressing for the fulfilment of their long-pending demands, including a legal guarantee for the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops and loan waivers. The march will involve a group of 101 farmers heading towards the national Capital as part of the ongoing … Read more
In a dramatic event of the political and legal saga, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, December 10, made an appearance in a Tel Aviv courtroom, becoming the first sitting Israeli PM who has testified as a criminal defendant. This comes after more than four years of legal battles on serious allegations of bribery, fraud … Read more
Mumbai: The death toll in the BEST bus accident in Mumbai has gone up to six with three more persons succumbing to their injuries, officials said on Tuesday. As many as 43 other persons were injured, as against initial reports of 22, in the incident which took place in Kurla (West) area at around 9.30 … Read more
New Delhi: The government on Monday appointed Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra as the 26th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet cleared Malhotra’s name, who has been appointed as the RBI Governor for three years, starting Wednesday. Malhotra, a 1990 Batch Rajasthan Cadre IAS Officer, will replace Shaktikanta Das, … Read more
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and Maharashtra’s newly-elect deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has been cleared of properties worth Rs 1,000 crore associated with him and his family in a benami case filed in 2021. The Income Tax department gave a clean chit to Pawar after the Prevention of Benami Property Transactions Appellate Tribunal dismissed … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to hear on Friday a plea filed by the Sambhal Shahi Jama Masjid Committee seeking a stay on a district court-ordered survey of the mosque to verify if the disputed structure was originally the Harihar temple. As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, … Read more
