New Delhi: BJP’s Raja Iqbal Singh is elected Delhi’s new mayor on Friday (April 25) as the saffron party returned to power in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) after two years. Iqbal defeated Congress candidate Mandeep Singh to grab the top civic body post. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) boycotted the mayoral election. As…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday refused to issue notice to Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and others in the National Herald money laundering case for now. Special judge Vishal Gogne was acting on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which claimed cognisance of the complaint (ED’s equivalent to a chargesheet)…
At long last, the Indian Parliament has signalled that it will no longer play second fiddle to the judiciary when it comes to making laws. In a much-needed assertion of constitutional propriety, the Centre has made it abundantly clear to the Supreme Court: legislation is the sole prerogative of the Legislature, not a domain for…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday called up the chief ministers of all the states and asked them to ensure that no Pakistani stays in India beyond the deadline set for leaving the country, sources said. India on Thursday announced revoking all visas issued to Pakistani nationals from April 27 and advised…
New Delhi, The Centre on Friday sought the Supreme Court to dismiss the pleas challenging the validity of the Waqf Act, 2025, and said there cannot be a “blanket stay” on the law as there was a “presumption of its constitutionality”. In a 1,332-page preliminary counter affidavit, the government defended the contentious law, saying that…
New Delhi: Former ISRO chief and chairperson of the drafting committee behind the ambitious new National Education Policy (NEP), K Kasturirangan, passed away in Bengaluru on Friday, officials said. He was 84. “He left for heavenly abode this morning at his residence in Bengaluru. His body will be kept at Raman Research Institute (RRI) for…
New Delhi: In a mixed outcome for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed an Allahabad High Court order that had refused to quash a summons issued to him in a criminal defamation case over his controversial remarks against freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. However, the court also delivered a stern rebuke,…
New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday to invite him for the groundbreaking ceremony of the renewed Rs 65,000-crore Amaravati capital city project to be held on May 2. After a period of stalled progress between 2019 and 2024, Naidu…
Bhubaneshwar: Odisha Police arrested three persons, including two serving Navy personnel in Khurda district, on the charge of extorting money from Agniveer aspirants during a recruitment drive in November 2024, an officer said on Friday. The arrested persons were identified as Satyam Chahar, currently working at INS Kesari, Andaman and Nicobar, Vinay Kumar Ray, presently…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday said the police investigation against Kunal Kamra over his remarks against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde can continue, but the comedian shall not be arrested. A bench of Justices Sarang Kotwal and S M Modak admitted Kamra’s petition seeking the quashing of the first information report (FIR)…
