Surat: The Surat Sessions Court on Friday pronounced Narayan Sai, son of self-styled godman Asaram, guilty in a 2013 rape case. The quantum of sentence will be announced on April 30. Narayan Sai, 40, was arrested from Pipli near Haryana’s Kurukshetra in December 2013 after two sisters from Surat filed rape complaints against him and his […]
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Sadhvi Pragya denies ‘terrorist’ barb against Digvijaya
Bhopal: BJP candidate from Bhopal Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, who has already received two notices from the Election Commission (EC) and has an FIR registered against her since the announcement of her name, on Friday denied her controversial remarks made against her Congress opponent Digvijaya Singh. Inaugurating her campaign office in Sehore on Thursday, Thakur told […]
Ex-SC staffer who accused CJI, appears before panel
New Delhi: Former Supreme Court staffer, who levelled allegations of sexual harassment against Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, appeared before an in-house inquiry panel of the apex court on Friday. The panel, headed by Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justice Indira Banerjee and Indu Malhotra, has been set up after the complainant wrote to the 22 […]
Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi joins BJP
New Delhi: After Hans Raj Hans and actor Sunny Deol, Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi on Friday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), adding more star power to the ruling party in election season. Union Minister Vijay Goel welcomed Mehndi into the BJP at the party headquarters here. Also present on the occasion were Union Minister […]
‘Starry eyed’ Gurdaspur awaits Sunny Deol
Gurdaspur (Punjab): Gurdaspur may be one of the least developed Lok Sabha constituencies in Punjab but it does not lack a fascination for Bollywood bigwigs. Having elected actor Vinod Khanna as its Member of Parliament (MP) four times from 1998 to 2014, voters are now awaiting the arrival of Sunny Deol, the new film star the […]
SC stays judicial probe into Jayalalithaa’s death
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the proceedings of an inquiry commission probing the death of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai in 2016. The hospital group had moved the apex court challenging a Madras High Court order, which allowed the Arumugasamy Commission to continue the probe. A […]
Modi biopic to release after LS polls, SC will not step in
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the Election Commission on the biopic “PM Narendra Modi”. The poll panel told the court that movie should be released only after the Lok Sabha elections got over. The seven phased polls began on April 11, when the biopic was to release. The polls will […]
Be more transparent: SC gives RBI final warning
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday gave the RBI “one last opportunity” and ordered the Reserve Bank of India to disclose annual inspection reports, wilful defaulters’ list under the Right To Information Act. The top court also ordered the central bank to withdraw its non-disclosure policy, which the court concluded is in violation of the […]
Rahul to blame if Modi-Shah return to power: Arvind Kejriwal
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi will be responsible if Prime Minister Narendra Modi comes back to power in the Lok Sabha polls. Speaking to the media over a possible alliance between the AAP and Congress in the national capital, he said his party would […]
Not Priyanka, Ajay Rai is Congress candidate against Narendra Modi from Varanasi
Ending all speculations, Congress on Thursday pitted Ajay Rai against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi. Earlier, talks were doing rounds that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra could be contesting against Modi. Congress had pitted Rai against Modi in 2014 Parliamentary elections also from the same seat but he had lost. Modi had won by a huge margin […]