A violent clash erupted between two groups over a minor dispute in the Old City police station area of Akola in Maharashtra on Saturday evening during which several vehicles were vandalized and set on fire. The clashes and violence took place between two groups in Akola last night at around 1 am because of an Instagram post. The minor dispute over a controversial post shared on social media escalated into violence. The video of which has went viral on social media. In a video, it can be seen that two groups are pelting stones at each other and engaged in a…
Author: Editor's Desk, Tattva News
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has created a new history in the Urban Body Elections in Uttar Pradesh. The party, which fought the elections with the slogan of adding a third engine to its “double-engine” government in the populous state, has hoisted its saffron flag on all 17 mayoral seats. The BJP has also won the corporator posts of these Municipal Corporations and secured an absolute majority in the Municipal Corporation Houses. The urban local body polls were held in two phases — on May 4 and May 11 — to elect 17 mayors and 1,401 corporators. Nineteen corporators were…
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Sushil Rinku on Saturday won the Jalandhar Lok Sabha byelection, defeating his nearest rival and Congress nominee Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary by 58,691 votes. Rinku, who had switched from the Congress to AAP in April, polled 3,02,279 (34.05 per cent) votes. He has become AAP’s only MP in the Lok Sabha as the party lost its lone Sangrur seat in the bypoll held in June last year. Then MP Bhagwant Mann had resigned from Sangrur after taking charge as the Punjab Chief Minister. Karamjit, the death of whose husband Santokh Chaudhary during Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo…
The Congress has registered a thumping victory in the tightly contested Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023. The victory in the southern state is not only a big boost for the party leadership, it will also certainly serve as glue to galvanise the Opposition led by the Congress to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress party has swept a clear majority with 136 seats in the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, and the big task on hand for the party leadership now is to choose the next chief minister. The ruling BJP was confined to…
‘The Kerala Story’, a film mired in controversy, was released in more than 200 screens in the US and Canada on Friday with its director Sudipto Sen saying the movie is a mission which is beyond the creative boundaries of cinema. “The country was in denial of the long existing issue in the state of Kerala. ‘The Kerala Story’ is a mission which is beyond the creative boundaries of cinema, a movement that should reach the masses all over the world and raise awareness,” Sen told a group of Indian- American reporters during a virtual news conference. “The film’s subject…
A special Bench of Islamabad High Court granted two weeks of bail to former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a corruption case. On Thursday, the Supreme Court termed Khan’s arrest from Court premises unlawful. A division bench comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz heard the Al-Qadir trust corruption case, a day after the Supreme Court termed Khan’s arrest from the IHC premises on Tuesday as invalid and unlawful. Khan, 70, arrived at the court shortly after 11.30am local time amid tight security and underwent the biometric identification process and other formalities. The hearing was delayed for…
An estimated 13.4 million babies were born pre-term in 2020, with nearly 1 million dying from preterm complications, according to a new report released by United Nations agencies and partners today. This is equivalent to around 1 in 10 babies born early (before 37 weeks of pregnancy) worldwide. Born too soon: decade of action on preterm birth, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) together with PMNCH — the world’s largest alliance for women, children, and adolescents, sounds the alarm on a “silent emergency” of preterm birth, long under-recognized in its scale and…
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday termed the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan by NAB in a money laundering case unlawful and ordered his immediate release. Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial issued the directives hearing Khan’s plea against his arrest by NAB in Al-Qadir Trust case, Dawn reported. The Court earlier in the day asked NAB to present Khan in Court. The publication reported that Judge Bandial observed that Imran Khan was present in the Islamabad High Court’s biometric courtroom on May 9. “When a person comes to the court of law, it means that he surrenders…
Noting that the real power of administration must rest with the elected arm of the government, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Delhi Government has control over ‘services’ in the National Capital Territory, excluding the matters relating to public order, police and land. A five-judge Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud held that the Delhi Lt Governor shall be bound by decisions of the Government of NCT of Delhi over the bureaucracy, except the three subjects, ie, public order, police and land – on which the Centre exercises its authority through the L-G. “If…
Amnesty International is today calling for social security to be made available to everyone worldwide after a series of crises exposed huge gaps in state support and protection systems, leaving hundreds of millions facing hunger or trapped in a cycle of poverty and deprivation. In a briefing issued today, Rising Prices, Growing Protests: The Case for Universal Social Protect, the human rights organization also calls for international debt relief, and urges states to enacttax reforms and clampdown on tax abuse, to free up substantial funding to pay for social protection. “A combination of crises has revealed how ill-prepared many states are…