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Five social activists Romila Thapar, Devaki Jain, Prabhat Patnaik, Satish Deshpande and Maja Daruwala who had moved the Supreme Court with a public interest litigation, questioning the arrests of the human rights activists in August 2018 in the Bhima-Koregaon case and had sought an independent investigation into the case, have called the arrest of Professor Read More…
Under the banner of ‘Jan Andolan Satyagraha’, Anna Hazare is on an indefinite hunger strike at his village Ralegan-Siddhi. He is demanding setting up of a Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in the states. Anna Hazare, who is on the fourth day of indefinite hunger strike, said people will hold Prime Minister Narendra Read More…
Congress president found an unusual admirer in Goa Deputy Speaker and BJP MLA Michael Lobo, who praised Gandhi a day after he called on chief minister Manohar Parrikar in the state assembly. “Rahul Gandhi came on a special visit to greet our ailing CM Manohar Parrikar. His simplicity, humility has to be admired Read More…
The ally of NDA in 2014 election Shiv Sena today insisted that it is the senior partner in the alliance with the BJP in Maharashtra and will always remain so. “We are the big brother in Maharashtra, we were the big brother and will stay the big brother,” Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said Read More…
The opposition Congress on Monday said while the BJP-led Goa administration has “collapsed” and the state’s debt is mounting, the chief minister is asking about the ‘spirit’ among people in the state. During the inauguration of third bridge on the Mandovi river in Panaji on Sunday, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had begun his speech Read More…
The BEST bus strike in Mumbai , which is now on its sixth day, will continue indefinitely as talks fail between the employee union and the high powered committee appointed by the Bombay High Court. The committee, comprising Chief Secretary DK Jain, Principal Secretary (Transport) Ashish Singh and Principal Secretary (Urban Development) Manisha Mhaiskar Read More…
Sanjiv Bhatt, a prominent critic of the Narendra Modi government, has been behind bars in connection with a 22-year-old narcotics case. The former IPS officer had moved the Gujarat High Court in December 2018, seeking bail in the matter after a Palanpur court in Banaskantha district on December 7 rejected his bail plea in Read More…
The order accessed by PTI shows that Murugesan, who was deputed by Director (in-charge) M Nageswara Rao to lead the investigation against Asthana, was transferred as part of efforts to give an “impetus to expeditious completion of coal scam cases”. The order also says that Murugesan was “bogged down” by additional charge of Joint Read More…
