Islamabad: A court in Pakistan on Saturday sentenced Imran Khan to three years in prison in a corruption case in which the embattled former prime minister is accused of profiting from selling expensive state gifts when he was in power. Additional Judge Humayun Dilawar of the Islamabad-based district and sessions judge also imposed Rs100,000 fine…
The Supreme Court’s stay on the Gujarat court’s verdict in the defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday might have brought cheers among the party’s rank and file as he will be reinstated as member of Parliament. And, the apex court has struck a balance in pulling up the lower court’s illogical order…
Varanasi (UP): The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Saturday resumed its scientific survey work at the Gyanvapi mosque here to determine whether the 17th-century mosque was constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple. Government counsel Rajesh Mishra, who accompanied the ASI survey team during the day-long exercise a day before, on Saturday said…
(Jag Mohan Thaken) The Haryana and Manipur communal violence has, for the time being, capped the ‘Zinn of UCC’ in the bottle, but it will come out again at its appropriate time. However, these communal clashes have shown that the ‘Zinn’ of UCC may also create a dangerous cloud of abhorrence and people fear…
New Delhi: Union Home Secretary Ajay kumar Bhalla was on Friday given a one-year extension till August 22, 2024, according to a Personnel Ministry order. This is his fourth extension in the post. Bhalla, a 1984-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, was appointed home secretary in August 2019. He was to retire…
Washington: Former US president Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty before an Indian-American judge to four charges that he plotted a criminal conspiracy to remain in power despite losing the November 2020 election. Trump, 77, entered his plea on Thursday before Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya at a Washington, D.C., federal courthouse not far from the US…
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday dismissed Imran Khan’s plea against trial proceedings in a corruption case in which the former premier is accused of concealing details of the gifts he retained from the state repository, as he withdrew the case. While dismissing the plea in the Toshakhana case, the apex court observed that the application…
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the National Assembly would be dissolved on August 9, three days before the term of the lower house of Parliament is scheduled to end, a move which will prompt general elections in the country within 90 days. Sharif said this on Thursday at a dinner reception…
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday accused the Modi government of not being serious in finding a solution to the logjam in Rajya Sabha, saying the INDIA opposition bloc had offered a “middle path” solution and that a debate on Manipur under a mutually negotiated motion should have ideally taken place today or “very soon”….
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday hailed the Supreme Court ruling staying the conviction of Rahul Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case and cited a quote by Gautam Buddha that “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth”. The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the conviction of…
