The Supreme Court today refused to interfere with the Madras High Court order for deployment of CISF by replacing state police security at its Chennai premises, which has recently witnessed unruly scenes caused by lawyers paralysing normal work. It said nobody, including the lawyers, can be allowed to hold to ransom the institution which has […]
Extending its fall for the second session, the benchmark BSE Sensex fell by another 101 points to trade at 26,451 in early trade on Thursday on widespread losses on sustained selling by cautious investors ahead of the east-Indian state Bihar’s elections result. The 30-share barometer, which had lost 37.67 points on Wednesday, fell further by […]
Justice T S Thakur would succeed Justice H L Dattu as the next Chief Justice of India. Justice Thakur, the senior-most judge of the apex court, will take over as the CJI after Justice Dattu retires on December 2. His name was recommended to the government by Justice Dattu on Monday, official sources said. After […]
Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali has scrapped his upcoming shows in India, saying the situation was not conducive for music right now and he doesn’t want to “get involved in any kind of politics”. The 74-year-old singer’s son Aamir said his father did not want to perform after what happened in Mumbai where his scheduled […]
Controversial BJP MP Yogi Adityanath today compared Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan to Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of Mumbai carnage, over his “extreme intolerance” comment, in the second attack on the actor by a BJP leader in as many days, sparking condemnation. Hitting out at Shah Rukh two days after the actor added […]
Today, BJP Gujarat has declared names of 27 candidates of RMC, Rajkot Municipal Corporation elections to be held in Gujarat. Names of candidates are from Ward No 1,3,6,7,8,10 and 12. Wardwise names of candidates is as follows: Ward.No-1 1-Anjnaben Morzriya 2-Durgaba Jadeja 3-Babubhai Ahir 4-Ashishbhai Vagadiya Ward No.3 1-DarshnaBen Vaghela 2-Varshaben Kakkad 3-Hemubhai Parmar […]
Under fire for his remark against Shah Rukh Khan, BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya today withdrew his controversial tweets but asserted that had there been intolerance in India, Shah Rukh would not have been the most popular actor after Amitabh Bachchan. “My intention was not to hurt anyone. I take back my yesterday’s tweet,” he said […]
Former Minister of Communication and Information Technology in Congress-led UPA Government Kapil Sibal will represent Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) convener Hardik Patel in the SC sedition case today. Hardik’s advocate BM Mangukia said that certain sections have still not removed against the PAAS convener in sedition case and hence an application has been filed […]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the government in the next few days will list out the exemptions to be phased out as part of its plans to gradually bring down corporate tax rate to 25 per cent, the first tranche of which will be announced in the Budget in February. “I have announced a […]
Underworld don Chhota Rajan is unlikely to be deported today as Indonesia extended the closure of an international airport on popular resort island till tomorrow due to the spewing of volcanic ash from a nearby mountain. Rajan, 55, was to be taken to India by a special aircraft last night but it was deferred till […]
