Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:27:03
New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking impleadment in petitions challenging constitutional validity of polygamy and 'nikah halala' practised among Muslims.
The AIMPLB said the apex court has already dealt with the issue of practices of polygamy and nikah halala in its verdict of 1997 in which it had declined to entertain the petitio
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Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:18:04
New Delhi: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday announced that the entire network of railways in the country will run on electricity by 2024. "We are embarking on rapid electrification of the rail network by 2024, we expect the entire railways to be 100 percent run on electricity," Goyal said at the India-Brazil Business Forum.
"It will be the first railway in the entire
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Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:07:28
Jehanabad: The police here carried out a raid at the ancestral house of anti-CAA activist Sharjeel Imam, who has been slapped with a sedition case in the national capital for alleged inflammatory speeches he gave at Shaheen Bagh and the Jamia Milia Islamia, a senior official said on Monday.
According to Superintendent of Police, Jehanabad, Manish Kumar, Imams house in Kako police station area
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Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:57:28
NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday targeted the Central Government for not fulfilling its promise of creating jobs stating that there were more than three crore people have become unemployed in major sectors of the country.
"This is the reality of all the big promises of giving jobs. Around 3.5 crore people have become unemployed in seven major sectors of the
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Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:54:04
NEW DELHI: Death row convict in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case Mukesh Kumar Singh moved the Supreme Court on Monday seeking urgent hearing on his plea against dismissal of his mercy petition by the President.
The mercy plea of 32-year-old Singh was dismissed by President Ram Nath Kovind on January 17.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said, "If somebody is going to be ha
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Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:48:31
NEW DELHI: Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad arrived in Delhi on Monday morning after he was put on a flight by police in Hyderabad, where he was detained while on his way to take part in an anti-CAA and anti-NRC event.
Promising to be "back soon", the Dalit leader said on Twitter early on Monday that Bahujan society would never forget the insult.
Aazad, who landed in Delhi shortly after 9
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Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:44:34
Etawah (Uttar Pradesh): Amid ongoing protests against CAA-NRC-NPR in the various parts of the country, former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Sunday said that the 'Constitution is in danger' and he will not allow 'the country to be divided on the name of religion'."We have embarked on this journey with Gandhi ji's message of truth, peace and non-violence. There is a need for this today, because
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Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:42:52
Mangaluru: JD(S) leader and former Karnataka Minister K Amarnath Shetty passed away at the age of 80 in Mangaluru on Monday morning.
Shetty, a trustee of Alva's Education Foundation (AEF), had joined politics in 1965 and went on to become the President of Paladka Panchayat in Karkala Taluk.
In 1983, he was elected as an MLA from Moodbidri constituency and was re-elected again in the same con
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Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:40:19
Mumbai: Locals, including scores of burqa-clad women, protested against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) at Morland Road area here on Monday.
Inspired by Delhi's Shaheen Bagh protesters, women in large numbers took to the streets in Madanpura here.
The protests continued through wee hours on Monday with women rais
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