The Supreme Court on Monday put an interim stay on the CBI probe into the role of West Bengal government officials in an alleged teacher recruitment scam till further orders in a major relief to the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government. The top court set further May 6 for further hearing West Bengal government plea against the Calcutta High Court decision declaring the entire panel of 2016 School Service Commission teachers’ recruitment null and void and canceling all appointments of teachers and non-teaching staff. The West Bengal government had moved the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court order invalidating the appointment…
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India on Monday summoned the Canadian Deputy High Commissioner with regard to the raising of separatist slogans on ‘Khalistan’ at an event which was being personally addressed by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “The Government of India’s deep concern and strong protest was conveyed at such disturbing actions being allowed to continue unchecked at the event,’’ said the MEA, adding that this incident once again illustrates the political space given in Canada to separatism, extremism and violence. “Their continued expressions not only impact India-Canada relations but also encourage a climate of violence and criminality in Canada to the detriment…
The Delhi Police on Monday served a notice summoning Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who is also the state unit president of the Congress, over an allegedly doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah that was shared on social media by the Telangana Congress. In the original video, Shah was heard saying the BJP would remove the 4 per cent reservation for Muslims that exists in two Telugu states. The video was allegedly morphed using deepfake technology to make it seem like Shah was saying all reservations, including of SCs and STs, would be scrapped. Officers from a special…
The Delhi Police on Sunday (April 28) registered an FIR over the ‘tampered video’ of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in which he could purportedly be heard promising to scrap the reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs. This comes after the BJP on Saturday filed a complaint with the chief electoral officer of Andhra Pradesh, accusing a social media handle of the Congress of posting a ‘tampered speech’ of Amit Shah on the issue. The Andhra Pradesh unit of the BJP had filed the complaint and urged the Election Commission official in the state to initiate action and…
Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely on Sunday resigned from his post, citing the alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the 2024 Lok Sabha election as one of the reasons for his resignation. Lovely’s resignation comes days after former Delhi minister and All India Congress Committee member Rajkumar Chauhan had resigned from the party following the meeting of the Delhi Congress’s disciplinary committee. However, he has clarified that he has only resigned as chief of the Congress’ Delhi unit and is not joining any other political party. His clarification came after Congress ex-MLA Asif Mohammad Khan claimed that the…
The Karnataka Police has filed an FIR against former minister and JD(S) leader H.D. Revanna and his son and Hassan MP Prajal Revanna in connection with a sexual harassment case. Prajal, the grandson of former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda, was the NDA candidate in Hassan which went to the polls on April 26. The case against the father-son duo was registered at Holenarasipur police station under sections 354 A, 354 D, 506, and 509 of the IPC based on a complaint by his cook. The complainant, who claims to be a relative of Revanna’s wife Bhavani, alleged that four months…
The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday claimed the Election Commission has “banned” its Lok Sabha campaign song ‘Jail Ka Jawab, Vote Se Denge’, but officials of the Delhi poll body said AAP was asked to modify the contents of the song since it violated EC’s guidelines and advertising codes. The over two-minute campaign song, penned and sung by AAP MLA Dilip Pandey, was released at the party headquarters here on Thursday. Sources from the Delhi Chief Electoral Office said the song was not banned but the party was asked to resubmit the proposal with certain modifications, in accordance with Advertising…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Opposition’s I.N.D.I.A bloc and said that they are not “at the doorstep of forming a government” but are mulling to have five prime ministers in five years if voted to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections. PM Modi’s remarks came while addressing an election rally at Kolhapur in western Maharashtra where polls will be held in the third phase of seven-phased elections on May 7. “The Opposition bloc cannot even reach a three-digit figure or at the doorstep of forming a government, but has plans to have one…
The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded renowned lawyer Ujjwal Nikam from the Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha seat, replacing two-time MP Poonam Mahajan. Nikam, who was special public prosecutor in several high-profile cases like the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts and the trial of Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist caught after the 26/11 attacks, will take on Congress’s Mumbai unit chief and Dharavi MLA Varsha Gaikwad. Nikam was the prosecutor in the murder case of Poonam’s father, Pramod Mahajan, who was shot dead by his brother Pravin in April 2006. Poonam, a former president of the BJP’s youth wing Yuva Morcha, had won…
Jailed Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife, Sunita Kejriwal, held her maiden Lok Sabha election roadshow on Saturday in support of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) East Delhi candidate Kuldeep Kumar. Addressing the party supporters, Sunita called Arvind Kejriwal a “sher” (lion) and said that “nobody can break him” or “make him bow down”. “For one month, they have forcefully put your chief minister and my husband in jail. No court has convicted him so far. They are saying that an investigation is ongoing. If the investigation goes on for 10 years, will they keep him in jail for 10 years?”,…