India

Jaipur, Sept 29: The witnesses and sons of Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer who was lynched in 2017, were attacked by suspected saffron extremists on NH-248 in the Mewat region of Rajasthan on Saturday morning. The attack took place when they were en route to Behror to attend the hearing in Khan's murder case. Apart from Pehlu's sons Irshad and Aarif, his lawyer Asad Hyatt was also in the car when the

Lucknow, Sept 29: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has hinted for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the killing of private company executive Vivek Tiwari by two policemen. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, who is in Gorakhpur, condemned the fake encounter and assured that stern action would be taken against the accused policemen. "None would be spared and if the family

Sept 29: The wife of a beef lynching victim in Ramgarh district Friday received Rs 5 lakh compensation from the district judge Vidhan Chandra Chaudhary, official sources said. Chaudhary handed over a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to Marium Khatoon, wife of the victim Alimuddin Ansari, in presence of senior officials of district administration. Alimuddin Ansari was lynched by a mob in Ramgarh town for

Dehradun, Sept 28: Uttarakhand High Court on Friday asked the state government to provide transgenders reservation in government jobs and educational institutions. The state government has been given a time of six months to implement the decision. The court order came on a petition filed by two members of the transgender community, who have sought protection to their lives and liberty. A division

New Delhi, Sept 29: Congress fielded a battery of ex-servicemen to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “using the blood and sacrifice” of armed forces for political gains as the three-day celebration of Parakram Parv (second anniversary of surgical strikes) began on Friday. The ex-servicemen demanded the implementation of the 'one rank, one pension' scheme “without dilution”, questioned the

New Delhi, Sept 29: The BJP on Saturday lauded the bravery of Indian armed forces in carrying out the surgical strikes against Pakistan across the Line of Control in 2016. "We salute the unmatched valour of our brave soldiers who conducted Surgical Strikes," the saffron party's official Twitter handle posted a message with a video. The video footage shows Indian army carrying out the surgical

New Delhi, Sept 28: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed Karnataka's curative petition against Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in connection with the Disproportionate Assets (DA) case against her, seeking reconsideration of the Supreme Court judgment of 2017. A three-judge bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Madan B Lokur turned down the petition

New Delhi, Sept 28: NCP national general secretary Tariq Anwar Friday said he had resigned from the party and Parliament following party chief Sharad Pawar's "defence" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Rafale deal. Making the announcement in his Lok Sabha constituency here, Anwar said he was resigning from all posts in the party, of which he was a founding member, and also giving up his

New Delhi, Sept 28: At a time the opposition led by the Congress is mounting attacks on the government over the Rafale fighter jet issue, NCP chief Sharad Pawar has said people "do not have doubts" over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intentions. In an interview to a Marathi news channel, former Defence Minister Pawar also said the opposition's demand to share technical details relating to the

New Delhi, Sept 28: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the arrest of five rights activists by the Maharashtra Police in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence case and declined to appoint a SIT to probe their arrest. The three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, in a 2:1 verdict, refused the plea seeking the immediate release of the activists. The majority