SC rejects Pawan Khera’s plea for protection against arrest

Spread the love       Pawan Khera New Delhi: Supreme Court on Friday refused Congress neta Pawan Khera’s plea for interim protection from arrest till Tuesday and asked him to seek anticipatory bail from the court in Assam, where an FIR against him has been filed by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife. A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and A...

Warm reception for lottery baron’s wife giving DMK jitters

Spread the love       Leema Rose Martin (ANI image) Trichy: The narrow rural road to V Thuraiyur, a remote hamlet 15km north of Lalgudi, an agrarian pocket in central Tamil Nadu, is packed with villagers on either side as the campaign vehicle drives through. On the vehicle is AIADMK candidate Leema Rose Martin, wife of lottery baron Santiago Martin and the...

‘Each deity has peculiar rituals’: Sabarimala priest tells Supreme Court

Spread the love       Supreme Court New Delhi: The main priest of Sabarimala Ayyappa temple, whose custom of barring entry of menstruating women was struck down in 2018, on Friday told Supreme Court that the rights and wrongs of modes of idol worship, which is central to Hinduism, is judicially indeterminable when rituals are peculiar to each deity’s manifestation, reports Dhananjay...

Government: Sheikh Hasina extradition plea under review

Spread the love       Sheikh Hasina NEW DELHI: After Bangladesh foreign minister Khalilur Rahman raised the issue of Sheikh Hasina’s extradition during his visit to India last week, India govt reiterated Friday that the request is being examined as part of the ongoing judicial and internal legal processes. However, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also reiterated India’s position that it will continue...

India, China hold 1st bilateral SCO talks after Ladakh thaw

Spread the love       PM Modi with Xi Jinping (PTI image) New Delhi: Amid efforts to ramp up bilateral cooperation, which followed the recent improvement in ties, India and China held their first Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) bilateral consultations on April 16-17.According to the MEA, the two sides exchanged views on implementation of SCO leaders’ decisions, and the future course of...

Sauce Gardner’s ex Ice Spice gets slapped by fan in viral McDonald’s fight

Spread the love       (Getty Images) The NFL offseason is usually for training camps and contract disputes but for New York Jets superstar Sauce Gardner, the drama is coming from his former “inner circle.” While the lockdown corner is busy prepping for another All-Pro season, his rumored former flame, rap sensation Ice Spice, was busy dodging more than just defenders this...

Army-led joint op destroys 10 illegal bunkers in Manipur’s Jalenbung Hills

Spread the love       In a coordinated counter-insurgency action, security forces led by Indian Army destroyed 10 illegal bunkers and firing positions in Manipur’s Jalenbung Hills and Thoyee Heights, officials said on Thursday. The joint security teams, comprising Indian Army’s Red Shield Division, CAPF and Manipur Police, carried out area domination operations and destroyed multiple hostile structures in the region.As part...

I-T raids on Mamata’s proposer & TMC pick raise West Bengal poll heat

Spread the love       Kolkata: Income tax officials on Friday raided Mamata Banerjee’s poll nomination proposer, Miraj Shah, and TMC candidate Debashis Kumar, prompting the Bengal CM to call BJP “spineless cowards”.Shah was Banerjee’s proposer in Kolkata’s Bhowanipore. Kumar is seeking re-election from Rashbehari, a high-profile constituency nearby.The I-T raids mark a significant escalation of the face-off between the Centre and...

‘Not going to be transferred anywhere’: Iran denies Trump’s claim on uranium deal

Spread the love       Iran on Friday dismissed US President Donald Trump‘s claim that Tehran had agreed to hand over its enriched uranium, with its foreign ministry stating the stockpile “is not going to be transferred anywhere.”“Iran’s enriched uranium is not going to be transferred anywhere,” foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei told state TV.“Transfer of Iran’s enriched uranium to the US...

US plans N-reactors in space orbit by 2028, on moon in 2030

Spread the love       Representative AI image MUMBAI: Three days after the successful splashdown of Artemis-2, the Trump administration on Tuesday issued a memorandum which among other things includes safely deploying nuclear reactors in space orbit as early as 2028, and on the moon in 2030.Dated April 14, the document issued by Michael J Kratsios, assistant to the President for science...

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