Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda has issued a stern warning to his grandson and JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, asking him to surrender before the police and face probe in the sexual abuse allegations against him. “This is not an appeal that I am making, it is a warning that I am issuing,” the party patriarch said in a statement which he shared on social media. Prajwal, who is seeking re-election from Hassan Lok Sabha constituency, has been on the run ever since a huge cache of explicit videos become public, showing women being sexually assaulted allegedly by him. Prajwal reportedly…
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At least seven Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh, the Police informed on Thursday. The gunfight broke out around 11 am when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation, which is still underway, Narayanpur Superintendent of Police Prabhat Kumar said. Narayanpur Superintendent of Police Prabhat Kumar earlier informed that the bodies of two Naxalites and weapons have been recovered from the encounter site. The operation, involving personnel belonging to the District Reserve Guard from Dantewada, Narayanpur and Bastar districts, Bastar Fighters and Special Task Force – all units of state police…
By Nava J Thakuria Expressing shock and dismay over the Dudhnoi incident, where two teenage girls were gang-raped and a youth was killed by a group of hooligans, a nationalist forum in northeast India demands a stringent punishment to those criminals. Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) also urges Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who also holds the State home portfolio, to take personal interest in delivering justice to the victim families as early as possible. The forum also appreciates conscious organisations namely All Bodo Students’ Union, All Rabha Students’ Union, Sutradhar Students’ Union, Barman Kachari Students’ Union, Prabajan Virodhi…
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), ARTICLE 19 and partners on Wednesday issued a statement in support of South Africa’s urgent request to the International Court of Justice to order Israel to facilitate unimpeded media access to Gaza. In a joint statement, nine human rights and press freedom organizations noted that Israel has failed to comply with the ICJ’s January 26 order to “take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II and Article III of the Genocide Convention.”South Africa argued on May 16 that the…
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday cancelled all Other Backward Classes (OBC) certificates issued after 2010 by the West Bengal government. However, people who got jobs or are in the process of getting it will not have any impact of this order. The list of backward classes is to be prepared according to the new Act of 1993. The list will be prepared by the West Bengal Backward Classes Commission. Those who were in the OBC list before 2010 will remain. However, after 2010, OBC nominations have been cancelled. After 2010, those who have jobs under the OBC quota or…
In an unprecedented warning issued to both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress, the Election Commission has asserted that India’s socio-cultural milieu cannot be made a casualty to elections. The poll body rejected the defence of BJP president J.P. Nadda and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and asked them to instruct their parties’ star campaigners to desist from campaigning along caste, community, language, and religious lines. The Commission has written separate letters to chiefs of both parties, directing them to issue a formal notice to their star campaigners disallowing them from making statements that “divide the society”. Nearly a month…
Veteran Bangladeshi MP Anwarul Azim Anar, who went missing in India on May 13, was found dead in Kolkata with Bangladesh arresting three people back home for the politician’s murder, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan announced in Dhaka on Wednesday (May 23). The body of Awami League MP, who had reached India on May 12 and went missing a day later, was recovered from a flat in Kolkata’s Newtown area on Wednesday. “So far, we have come to know that all the killers involved are Bangladeshis. It was a planned murder,” the Bangladesh minister said. He added that Bangladesh Police have…
A bomb threat was received by the Union Home Ministry’s office at Delhi’s North Block on email at around 3:30 pm on Wednesday. Delhi Police, bomb disposal squad and fire department vehicles rushed to the spot. A Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official said a dog squad and bomb disposal and detection teams along with police and fire department personnel conducted searches in the block but found nothing, following which the MHA officials declared it to be a hoax bomb threat. “It was a hoax bomb threat we received through email. The Delhi police is investigating into the matter,” said a…
In a significant development, the Delhi High Court has rejected the bail plea of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the liquor scam case. Sisodia, accused of creating a liquor policy that benefited private businesses at the cost of the public exchequer, has been in jail since his arrest by the CBI on February 26, 2023. He was subsequently arrested by the ED on March 9, 2023, in connection with related money laundering charges. Sisodia allegedly manipulated the excise policy to favour private entities, causing significant losses to the government treasury. He is also accused of using funds from…
Amid the inquiry which has been initiated into the Swati Maliwal alleged assault case, Delhi Lt. Governor, VK Saxena on Tuesday said that the ‘CM would have come clean, rather than being evasive and dodgy.’ He said that he have been deeply distressed over the unfolding media narrative over the last few days on the issue of alleged assault on Swati Maliwal, MP, Aam Admi Party, at the residence of Chief Minister, when she went there to meet him all alone. “Yesterday, she called me out of sheer anguish, describing at length her traumatic experience, and the subsequent intimidation and shaming…