New Delhi: Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud urged lawyers on Friday to not seek adjournments in fresh matters, saying he does not want the Supreme Court to become a ‘tarikh-pe-tarikh’ court as such deferment “defeats trust of citizens”. At the outset of the day’s proceedings, the CJI flagged the issue of lawyers seeking…
Jaipur: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh alleged on Friday that the crisis of trust in Indian politics has deepened due to the Congress. He said because of the difference in the words and deeds of political leaders, the public’s trust in the country’s politics as well as its leaders has gradually eroded. “Due to the difference in…
New Delhi: India remains a “bright spot” in the world amid an unprecedented churn in the global landscape arising out of geopolitical upheavals such as the escalating conflict in West Asia and the Russia-Ukraine war, Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande said on Friday. In an address at the Chanakya Defence Dialogue, he said New Delhi’s outlook…
Hyderabad: A central panel on dam safety has ripped into the Telangana government after sections of the Medigadda (Lakshmi) barrage (which diverts, rather than stores, water) sank into the Godavari River last month, making the structure “useless unless fully rehabilitated”. The barrage is part of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s flagship ₹ 80,000 crore Kaleshwaram…
Raipur: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the BJP never opposed the idea of caste census, but it would take appropriate decision on it after consulting everyone, a statement that comes amid a strong demand by the Congress and some other parties to carry out the exercise at the national level. He was talking…
Mumbai: Shreyas Iyer knew that he would be asked probing questions about his apparent weakness against short ball but the Mumbaikar, after his smashing 82, was ready to hook any such queries out of the park. “When you say it’s a problem for me what do you mean?,” Iyer went on a counter-offensive. “Troubled me?…
Hyderabad: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday visited the Medigadda barrage of Kaleswaram project in Telangana, touted as the world’s largest multi-stage lift irrigation project, where cracks have developed in the pillars of the barrage. After inspecting the ‘damage’, Gandhi alleged that cracks have appeared in multiple pillars of the barrage due to shoddy construction. “Kaleshwaram…
New Delhi: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Thursday alleged that TMC MP Mahua Moitra tried to create a wrong narrative about the proceedings of the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee that is probing allegations of “gifts-for-query” against her. Dubey’s remark came hours after opposition members of the ethics panel stormed out of the meeting along with…
Kanker: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hit out at the Congress in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, saying the party and development can not exist together and it is now filling its coffers through corruption in the states under its rule after losing power at the Centre. Speaking at a campaign rally in Kanker town, he also…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday sent NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and its HR department head Amit Chakravarty to judicial custody till December 1 in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA over allegations that the news portal received money to spread pro-China propaganda. Special Judge Hardeep Kaur sent both the accused to jail…
