NEW DELHI: Should an individual’s eligibility to OBC quota be solely determined by his father’s caste? A Supreme Court bench of Justices K V Viswanathan and N Kotishwar Singh agreed to examine the issue raised by a single OBC mother for her son.Significantly, additional solicitor general S D Sanjay, representing the Centre, also favoured the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court stressed Monday that “hate speech” is not covered under freedom of expression, even as it restrained police from four states from arresting Wazahat Khan, who was instrumental in the arrest of social media influencer Sharmistha Panoli for her communal posts on Pahalgam killings. FIRs have been lodged against him for…
LUCKNOW: A Delhi-based company contracted to operate a toll plaza on NH-19 in UP is under investigation for allegedly sealing a 15-year lease by fraudulently paying Rs 100 as stamp duty instead of the stipulated Rs 63 crore.The lease, signed on March 18, 2023, entitles the firm to collect toll for a 72.64-km stretch of…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand HC has put the upcoming panchayat polls on hold, pointing out that the gazette notification on reservation rules had not been issued by govt. A division bench of Chief Justice G Narendar and Justice Alok Mahra sought a detailed explanation from the authorities in this regard.The court pointed out that the state EC…
Even for the top 5% of urban families by income in Maharashtra, buying a house in Mumbai would take more than 100 years of saving to fund. In Haryana and Odisha, it would take over 50 years of saving by the richest 5% to buy a house in their biggest cities. Chandigarh, by contrast, is…
NEW DELHI: AAP won two, while BJP, Congress and Trinamool Congress picked up one each in assembly bypolls to five seats across Gujarat, Punjab, Kerala and Bengal. Voting was held on June 19, with results declared Monday.In Gujarat, AAP’s Gopal Italia clinched Visavadar seat in Junagadh by 17,554 votes, defeating BJP’s Kirit Patel. Italia, a…
NEW DELHI: After nearly a month of surge, Covid-19 cases and deaths due to the virus are on the decline. The number of active cases, which had crossed 7,000 on June 11, has declined to 4,425, govt data shows. One fatality was recorded in the last 24 hours.“Covid-19 is now endemic. It is not a…
Shashi Tharoor with PM Modi. NEW DELHI: Shashi Tharoor, whose frosty ties with the Congress leadership is now an open secret, has yet again taken a diametrically opposite stand from his party and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the global diplomatic outreach following “Operation Sindoor“. In an article published in The Hindu, Tharoor said:…
NEW DELHI: To ensure that road crash victims get medical assistance in the quickest possible time, the next-generation ambulances will have equipment such as glassbreak or window punch tool, rescue axe, bolt cutter, heavy-duty hydraulic jack and basic vehicle tool set to extricate persons trapped inside vehicles, as happens often after accidents.The Centre is finalising…
BJP MLA supporters assault passenger over window seat NEW DELHI: Congress leader Supriya Shrinate on Monday accused BJP MLA Rajeev Singh of orchestrating an assault on a train passenger over a window seat dispute aboard the New Delhi–Bhopal Vande Bharat Express.Shrinate posted a video on X alleging that Singh, used his “goons” to beat up…
