New Delhi: Badminton champion Saina Nehwal joined the ruling BJP today and is expected to campaign for the party ahead of the Delhi election on February 8. "I won many awards for our country. I am a very hardworking person and I love hardworking people. I can see that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing so
New Delhi: On Wednesday the Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on the plea moved by one of the Nirbhaya gang-rape case convicts, Mukesh Singh, against the President's rejection of his mercy petition. According to the death warrants issued by a Delhi court, four convicts are scheduled to be executed on February 1, at 6 am. The
Ace choreographer-filmmaker Ganesh Acharya has been accused of forcing a 33-year-old female choreographer to watch adult videos and depriving of work. The woman has filed a complaint at Maharashtra Women's Commission and Amboli Police Station. She alleged that whenever she visited his office in Mumbai, Ganesh made her watch porn. The woman also revealed that she was
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that the law on citizenship was introduced to "correct a historic injustice and fulfill a promise made to minorities in neighbouring countries." Speaking at a National Cadet Corps rally in Delhi, he spoke about the injustices committed during partitioning when a "line was drawn across a piece of
BJP leader and MP Parvesh Verma said that if the party comes to power in Delhi the Shaheen Bagh protests will end with an hour. "If the BJP is forming government on February 11, not a single person will be found at (the protest site) Shaheen Bagh," Verma said during a meeting in the Vikaspuri constituency
Fourteen people convicted and sentenced to life for the 2002 post-Godhra Sardarpura massacre case in which 33 people were burned alive were ordered Tuesday by the Supreme Court to be released on bail. The top court told the 14 people to do social service but ruled that they will have to stay out of Gujarat.
Aurangabad: Sonia Gandhi, president of Congress, had sought a written undertaking from the Shiv Sena that the new Maharashtra government would work within the framework of the Constitution, former chief minister Ashok Chavan has said. "She told us that we should first get this in writing (from Sena) that the government should work within the framework
Kolkata: The assembly of West Bengal passed a resolution on Monday against the Citizenship Amendment Act in the midst of a huge nationwide demonstration against the controversial law and the proposed National Citizens Register (NRC). Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, speaking at the Bengal Assembly as her government moved the resolution, said, "This protest is not only
On Monday the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet approved the dissolution of the Legislative Council of the state. The bill is moving in the state assembly now. The council had referred the three-capital bill for review to the select committeel. The resolution will now be passed and adopted for debate in the state assembly. It will possibly be
On Monday morning, Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad who was detained by the Hyderabad Police on Sunday was sent back to Delhi. Azad told in a tweet that he was taken to the airport and sent back to Delhi, adding that the Dalits would ' never forget this attack. '