Security was increased at the Delhi High Court today for a hearing on JNU student Kanhaiya Kumar’s request for bail, but it could not be taken up today for technical reasons. The Supreme Court declined to take up Mr Kumar’s petition and asked the Centre and the Delhi Police to ensure that his lawyers get protection at the high court. Here are the latest developments: Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested […]
Even as news pours in about former Delhi University lecturer, SAR Geelani’s arrest on charges of sedition for allegedly spearheading the Press Club event organised to mark the death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, I am absolutely appalled by the way some of the opposition leaders in the country are responding to it. Mr Rahul Gandhi, the Congress Vice President, has slammed the Govt action and questioned what […]
If Melania Trump succeeds Michelle Obama as First Lady, she may trace her road to the White House back to 1987 and a chance encounter in the capital of her native Slovenia. “I was leaving a fashion show in Ljubljana and saw her in front of the building. She was probably waiting for a friend,” said Slovenian photographer Stane Jerko. “She was tall and slim so she caught my eye […]
Amid the raging JNU row, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday asserted that the guilty “will not be spared” as Left leaders met him questioning police action against students including the arrest of the student union leader. “No question of harassment of students. But the guilty will not be spared,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a function in Delhi. The home minister’s statement came after a delegation of […]
As of February 2016, since he took charge as the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has visited thirty-seven countries on five continents. On the basis of Right To Information (RTI) and from the Official PMO website, this YouTuber has revealed the reality behind Modi’s expensive trips the impact of these on the Indian economy. Watch and learn! Please follow and like us:
The deposition of Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley continued for fourth day at a Mumbai court via video link. He is being examined as an approver in the 26/11 terror attacks. Headley has made some sensational disclosures that has exposed the role of Pakistani army and its spy agency ISI in 26/11 Mumbai attacks that claimed 166 lives. Headley’s confession in the crime and his dealings with Pakistan’s ISI operatives […]
It’s a marquee Monday in the history of India’s fight against terrorism. David Headley, the Pakistani-American LeT operative kicks off his deposition before a Mumbai court today through video conference. This is the first time ever that a high profile terrorist like Headley will be prosecuted in the court via video conferencing. However in this context it needs to be remembered that in any case this deposition more of optics […]
Cricketer Suresh Raina, actor turned politician Raj Babbar, his wife Nadira, classical vocalist Girija Devi and Chhannulal Mishra are among the 100 awardees who have applied for the Yash Bharati Samman offered by UP government, according to a leading daily. The government had earlier announced the name of 141 recepients and sought their application by january 31. The state government had sent out a copy of the notification on the […]
A flash protest by the Kapu community demanding inclusion in the backward classes list turned violent on Sunday with the protestors setting a train on fire, damaging a railway station and a police station and blocking rail and road traffic in Andhra Pradesh. Movement of trains between Vijayawada and Vishakhapatnam and vehicular traffic on Chennai-Kolkata national highway came to a halt as thousands of protestors squatted on the tracks and […]
If President Pranab Mukherjee’s remarks during the launch of his memoirs are anything to go by, the man is the keeper of many secrets, including those which must never be told. However, developments in the Bofors scandal and the Ramjanmabhoomi site in connection with prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s do not appear to fall in this category. “The opening of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple site on 1 February 1986 was perhaps […]
