NEW DELHI: “Mahatma Gandhi mein aag lag rahi hai bhai” (Mahatma Gandhi is catching fire) – the frantic exclamation of a fireman, captured on video, became the focal point of a probe into the fire that broke out at the official bungalow of Justice Yashwant Varma in the capital last year. It was around 11.35pm…
NEW DELHI: The Centre and Delhi Police told Delhi high court on Friday that social media platform X (formerly Twitter) risks losing its safe harbour protection in India as an intermediary if it fails to act despite court orders and police notices in connection with allegedly objectionable posts by journalist Rana Ayyub concerning Hindu deities…
NEW DELHI: Justice Yashwant Varma of Allahabad high court may have submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu on Friday, but he went down crying foul. In a letter simultaneously addressed to Supreme Court Justice Aravind Kumar, who is head of the judges’ inquiry committee, the controversial HC judge faulted the committee’s procedure to test…
Yashwant Varma (File photo) NEW DELHI: Friday’s resignation saves Justice Yashwant Varma from the ignominy of defending himself in Parliament in a debate on the motion to remove him as a judge. However, it might open a window for the authorities to order an investigation into the source of the money found in a judge’s…
NEW DELHI: Women aced voter turnout in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday, not only recording their highest-ever polling percentage but also surpassing the male voter turnout in the two states and the Union territory. A whopping 91.4% of the female electorate in Puducherry, 86.5% in Assam and 81.2% in Kerala voted. In comparison, the…
NEW DELHI: Polling in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry is over, and less than three weeks remain before campaigning ends in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, yet the Election Commission of India has not issued a single notice for violation of the model code of conduct (MCC) so far. Trends since the 2025 Bihar polls show…
KHARAGPUR: All 90.8 lakh people whose names have been struck off Bengal’s electoral rolls are “anti-nationals”, former state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh said in Kharagpur late Thursday, challenging Trinamool Congress to repeat its electoral success without “fake voters”.“The bell is tolling. Pishi-Bhaipo duo (Mamata Banerjee and nephew, MP Abhishek Banerjee) is changing their tune,” BJP’s…
CHENNAI: A day after TVK chief Vijay’s yet to be released movie ‘Jananayagan’ surfaced online, the party blamed Union minister of state L Murugan and Tamil Nadu’s deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin for the leak. TVK general secretary Aadhav Arjuna alleged that Murugan, as Union I&B minister overseeing CBFC, was responsible for the leak and that…
NEW DELHI: US secretary of state Marco Rubio will visit India next month, said ambassador Sergio Gor after a meeting that Rubio had with visiting Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri. This will be Rubio’s first visit to India since he assumed office after the return of President Donald Trump to the White House. Welcoming Misri…
NEW DELHI: Indian Army has cleared Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit’s promotion to the rank of Brigadier following his acquittal in Malegaon blast case and his plea before the armed forces tribunal (AFT) that he should not be retired before his request for promotion is reviewed.“The order to promote Col Purohit to the rank of Brigadier…
