Agencies New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday gave his assent to the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage), Bill, 2019, which criminalises instant ‘triple talaq’ among Muslims and attracts a jail term of three years for the husband. With the President’s approval, the Bill has become an Act. Soon after the Bill […]
Thrissur(Ker): A 44-year-old Congress worker died after he was brutally attacked by an 18-member gang at Punna in Chavakkad, police said Wednesday. The deceased identified as Naushad was a local congress leader who was very popular in the area. Naushad, who suffered serious injuries on the neck and hands, died Wednesday morning at a hospital. […]
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast near Mardum in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district on Tuesday morning. Roshan Kumar, a resident of Nawada in Bihar, was a constable posted with 195 battalion of CRPF and was deployed in Pushapal village. According to police, the IED which was […]
In Bihar 88.46 lakh people have been affected in 13 districts in inundation caused earlier this month due to the torrential rainfall in the catchment areas of Nepal, state disaster management department said. Death toll in Bihar floods rose to 130 on Tuesday, but the situation improved considerably in neighbouring Assam where water levels in […]
He was administered the oath of office by Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court TBN Radhakrishnan in presence of CM Mamata Banerjee. Jagdeep Dhankhar, a former Lok Sabha MP from Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, was on Tuesday sworn in as the 28th governor of West Bengal at the Raj Bhavan here. He was administered the oath of […]
New Delhi: An Army officer’s body has been found on a railway track at the New Delhi railway station, police said on Tuesday. The body of the officer, identified as Lieutenant Diwakar Puri, was found cut into two parts on Monday morning, they said. According to police, Puri was from the Army Medical Corps and […]
Agencies Raipur: Two Naxals, including a woman, were killed in an encounter with the security forces in the forests of Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Monday, police said. The firefight occurred around 7 am in the forest near Kanhaiguda village under Konta police station limits when a team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on […]
Agencies New Delhi : Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the Prime Minister’s most trusted lieutenant in Modi 2.0, is learnt to be focusing on vital aspects of national security with 16 key bureaucrats to fix the structural crises — the militancy in Kashmir, the NRC, and the situation in Northeast and Maoist-affected areas. With the […]
Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati on Friday attacked Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for his sexist remark against MP Rama Devi in the Lok Sabha, saying he should not only apologise in Parliament but to all women. “The indecent language used by Azam Khan, an SP MP from Uttar Pradesh, against a woman presiding officer in […]
The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to declare “Vande Mataram” the national anthem, on par with “Jana Gana Mana”, or the national song. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar said it finds no reason to entertain this petition while […]