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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) exposed financial mismanagement, irregularities, misuse of government funds, unauthorized foreign tours, and extension of undue benefits to distillers during BJP rule in Madhya Pradesh. The then BJP government failed to ensure submission of utilisation certificates (UCs) on grants-in-aid of ₹18,080.10 crore, says the latest CAG report. “Blocking Read More…
The government of Kerala told the Supreme Court on Friday that 51 women of menstruating age had entered the Sabarimala temple since a landmark top court order in September 2018 scrapped the decades-old ban on such devotees from offering prayers at the hill shrine. However public been made known just two women devotees of Read More…
Not only DMK opposed and voted against the Constitution Amendment Bill in Parliament, but decided to take the battle in judiciary DMK on Friday moved the Madras High Court challenging the Centre’s move to grant 10% reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) of upper caste society. The petition filed by DMK’s organising secretary and Read More…
Varsha Kale, the president of the Bharatiya Bar Girl’s Union (BBGU), said the Supreme Court judgment on dance bars has reignited hope that dance bars would be reopened across state and dancers would come out of a chakravyuh (spiral). Others from the profession said that the verdict would weed out obscenity and exploitation at Read More…
On January 14, Kalyan crime branch raided Tapasya House of Fashion at Mahavirnagar, Manpada Road in Dombivli. The shop is owned by Dhananjay Kulkarni, 49, the vice-president of the Bhartiya Janata Party’s Dombivli unit. The arrest of a Dombivli-based businessman Dhananjay Kulkarni with 170 sharp weapons and airguns has surprised residents of the area. Read More…
The Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the ten years of rigorous imprisonment handed down to warden a 24-year-old in-charge of Pune-based a boarding school for sexually assaulting students and indulging in unnatural sex. Three students staying at a hostel run by run by Sant Nivrutti Maharaj Ashram had filed a complaint against Bansidhar Read More…
The tenure of CBI’s Special Director Rakesh Asthana, who was sent on forced leave by the government, has been curtailed with immediate effect, according to an official order issued Thursday. The tenures of three more officers Joint Director Arun Kumar Sharma, Deputy Inspector General Manish Kumar Sinha and Superintendent of Police Jayant J Naiknavare Read More…
The Supreme Court struck down a provision that the owner of the dance bar should have a “good character” and no “criminal antecedents”. “There is no precise definition of what amounts to good character and criminal antecedents,” ruled the court. In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Thursday gave go-ahead to the Read More…
51-year-old Sirsa-based sect head Gurmeet Ram Rahim is currently serving a 20-year-prison term in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail for raping two of his women followers. Now in addition to that a special CBI court in Panchkula on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the murder of journalist Read More…
Young woman has climbed a mountain in India, where only men were allowed until now for religious reasons. Located within a biosphere reserve in India’s Western Ghats, Agasthya koodam is the second highest peak in Kerala. In November, the high court in Kerala ruled that women could trek to the 1,868m (6,128ft) sacred Read More…