New Delhi: Today, Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan suggested public lynching as a way to seek justice in cases of rape. Not just naming the guilty party and shaming it, but lynching, though perhaps extreme, would be the only way to put an end to such crimes against women she said once and for all. "These kind
New Delhi: Devendra Fadnavis ' sudden takeover in Maharashtra was conceived as a "drama" to shield Rs 40,000 crore in central funds and safely return it, BJP leader Ananth Kumar Hegde said in a surprising statement that made his party embarrassed."You all know that our guy was chief minister recently in Maharashtra for only 80
Mumbai: Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray ordered a review on Sunday of the bullet train project Rs 1.2 lakh crore Mumbai-Ahmedabad as part of a wider audit of state infrastructure projects to determine the new administration's priorities. He said his government would withdraw all cases against people protesting against trees felling in September to make way
Mumbai: A 35-year-old woman, allegedly beaten by her boyfriend near Mankhurd railway station in Mumbai, died on her way to the hospital, police said on Sunday. She collapsed after her boyfriend Raju Pujari Yallapa allegedly slapped her on Saturday when he saw her talking to another person in the eastern suburb near a public toilet. "After
Chennai: After a wall collapsed in a village this morning in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu in the midst of heavy rain, 15 people were feared dead. Nine bodies have been recovered so far. It is probable that heavy rain will continue to hammer parts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry today after the last few days
Mumbai: Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis slipped away from the hands of the BJP on the vagaries of "political arithmetic" the reason for government formation. The BJP with 105 MLAs — the largest single party in the 288-member — was unable to form government after it was outmaneuvered by the new Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress. Rivals in the
Mumbai: The Congress MLA Nana Patole was elected as the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker. Patole's election came after Kisan Kathore's name was taken back by the BJP as the candidate of the party with minutes to go before the 10 am deadline. It is a tradition in the Maharashtra Assembly for the Speaker to be elected unopposed.
New Delhi: In a strong message, India and Japan have called on Pakistan to take action against terrorist groups operating outside its jurisdiction and to fulfill its obligations to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) anti-terror funding body. The joint statement issued after the meeting of the maiden India-Japan 2 + 2 Defence and Foreign Ministers
Mumbai: One of the first decisions that Maharashtra's newly elected chief minister took was to stay constructing the Mumbai Metro Carshed in the city's green lung Aarey Colony, where strong protests against cutting trees for the project erupted last month. Speaking at the State Secretariat to media people on his first day at work, Thackeray said:
The Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress combine nominated Congress MLA Nana Patole for the position of Assembly Speaker. He is facing a Kisan Kathore challenge from the BJP. The vote is scheduled for Sunday.