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SC stays death warrant of convict in rap | New Delhi, Feb 20 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the death warrant issued by a Gujarat court in the execution of a 22-year-old man convicted in the rape and murder of a three-year-old child in Surat in 2018. | 20-Feb-2020 |
Fruitful meeting, says Kejriwal after me | New Delhi, Feb 19 (TIWN) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday and said the two had a good and fruitful meeting. | 19-Feb-2020 |
Yogi sparks row with remarks on anti-CAA | Lucknow, Feb 19 (TIWN) UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, on Wednesday, kicked off a major controversy when he slammed the anti-CAA protesters and made a disparaging remark on the deaths that took place during the protests. | 19-Feb-2020 |
Congress-ruled states eager on Priyanka' | New Delhi, Feb 19 (TIWN) With the Congress weighing options to send its General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi to the Rajya Sabha, a competition seems to have begun between leaders of Congress-ruled states on her candidature from their respective states. | 19-Feb-2020 |
Mamata slams central govt over Tapas Pau | Kolkata, Feb 19 (TIWN) Holding the BJP-led central government's "political vengeance" responsible for actor-politician Tapas Paul's death, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that three persons including a Trinamool MP and the wife of another Lok Sabha member have died in recent years unable to withstand the pressure of the central agencies. | 19-Feb-2020 |
Career of thousands of J&K youth at stak | Srinagar, Feb 19 (TIWN) Former finance minister Altaf Bukhari on Wednesday urged the Union Health Ministry to bring the medical assistants of Jammu and Kashmir within the ambit of the Central Pharmacy Act (CPA) and do away with the discrimination faced by them. | 19-Feb-2020 |
Guarantee card a priority for Kejriwal c | New Delhi, Feb 18 (TIWN) The 'Kejriwal ka Guarantee Card', released by Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal ahead of the Delhi Assembly polls is the top priority of the newly formed government. | 18-Feb-2020 |
Nadda appoints Saroj Pandey as Delhi BJP | New Delhi, Feb 18 (TIWN) BJP President J.P. Nadda on Tuesday appointed Saroj Pandey as the central observer to oversee the election of the BJP's legislature party in Delhi. | 18-Feb-2020 |
SC orders Fadnavis to face trial in poll | New Delhi, Feb 18 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Tuesday told former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to face trial for allegedly failing to furnish details of pending criminal cases in his 2014 poll affidavit, as the judgement on his election matter could have wider ramifications on the candidates in the electoral fray. | 18-Feb-2020 |
INX Media: Court reserves order on bail | New Delhi, Feb 18 (TIWN) A Delhi court on Tuesday reserved for Wednesday its order on regular bail application moved by six bureaucrats who were part of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) panel which granted approval to INX Media, in the case involving former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram. | 18-Feb-2020 |
Jamia violence: Sharjeel Imam sent to 14 | New Delhi, Feb 18 (TIWN) Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Sharjeel Imam was on Tuesday sent to 14-day judicial custody in connection with violence which erupted in Jamia on December 15, last year. | 18-Feb-2020 |
Mamata, Dhankhar hold one-on-one at Raj | Kolkata, Feb 17 (TIWN) Amid continuous stream of confrontations between West Bengal government and the Raj Bhawan, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday called on state governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and held an hour long one-on-one meeting with him. | 17-Feb-2020 |
Nirbhaya convicts to be hanged on March | New Delhi, Feb 17 (TIWN) The four death-row convicts in Nirbhaya rape and murder case will now be hanged on March 3 at 6 a.m., a local court here announced on Monday. | 17-Feb-2020 |
Centre's plea rejected, SC grants Perman | NEW DELHI, Feb 17 (TIWN): The Supreme Court has upheld Delhi High Court's judgement of granting permanent commission to women officers in the Indian Army. The arguments of the Centre raising the issue of physiological limitations and social norms to deny opportunity to women officers is disturbing and cannot be accepted as women officers have performed exceptionally well and brought laurels, stated the top court of the country. | 17-Feb-2020 |
6 killed in Haryana road accident | Chandigarh, Feb 17 (TIWN) Six people were killed and five injured when their van rammed into a stationary truck in Haryana's Hisar district on Monday, the police said. | 17-Feb-2020 |
Delhi HC notice to Centre on plea in Jam | New Delhi, Feb 17 (TIWN) The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notices on a petition filed by a Jamia Millia Islamia student seeking compensation of Rs 2 crore for injuries he sustained during December 15 violence. | 17-Feb-2020 |
'New era of Developmental Politics for 2 | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN) In his maiden speech as the third-time Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday the people of Delhi have given birth to a new brand of electoral politics --"the politics of development." | 16-Feb-2020 |
CPI-M more worried about leakage of CAG | Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 16 (TIWN) Finally breaking its silence on the CAG report on Kerala Police, the CPI-M on Sunday appeared to be more worried about the leaking of the report and less concerned about the contents, which speak of the corrupt deals of Kerala Police. | 16-Feb-2020 |
Amit Shah to address pro-CAA meeting in | Bhubaneswar, Feb 16 (TIWN) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address a pro-CAA public meeting during his two-day visit to Odisha on February 28, said state BJP president Samir Mohanty on Sunday. | 16-Feb-2020 |
Priyanka Gandhi attacks govt over purpor | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN) A purported video has been leaked online about the December 15 Jamia incident that shows men in uniform beating up students inside a library. Not just social media but political reactions have also started pouring in since early Sunday. | 16-Feb-2020 |
Agra gears up for Trump's visit | Agra, Feb 16 (TIWN) Agra is gearing up for the visit of US president Donald Trump who is likely to see the Taj Mahal on February 24 evening. | 16-Feb-2020 |
‘Protesters can’t be labele | New Delhi, Feb 16 (TIWN): Calling dissent a "safety valve" of democracy, Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud on Saturday said "blanket labelling" of dissent as anti-national or anti-democratic strikes at the "heart" of the country's commitment to protect Constitutional values and promote deliberative democracy. | 15-Feb-2020 |
Cong: Govt extorting money from prepaid | Chandigarh, Feb 15 (TIWN) The Congress on Saturday queried the Centre whether the increase in tariff of cell phone users by 40% a step to recover Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) in the backdrop of the Supreme Court verdict. The party alleged the NDA government is fleecing Rs 1,60,000 crore belonging to the people in the garb of AGR. | 15-Feb-2020 |
NSG anti-sniper units at strategic locat | Gandhinagar, Feb 15 (TIWN) Ahmedabad city is gearing up for the maiden visit of US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump with top-grade security being put in place. Areas the the top dignitaries would be visiting or passing by along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be guarded by National Security Guard commandos' anti-sniper units. | 15-Feb-2020 |
Shaheen Bagh, Park Circus protestors get | Kolkata, Feb 15 (TIWN) West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Dilip Ghosh, here on Saturday, went ballistic over protests against the new citizenship law (CAA) at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi and Park Circus, here, saying some "uneducated, burqa-clad poverty-stricken women have been made to sit on the road for money and biryani" and to listen to speeches of leaders, like P Chidambaram and Brinda Karat. | 15-Feb-2020 |
Aam Aadmi in focus at Kejriwal's oath ce | New Delhi, Feb 15 (TIWN) At Arvind Kejriwal's swearing-in ceremony on Sunday, when he has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seven Lok Sabha MPs from Delhi and eight newly elected BJP MLAs, his 'chief guest' will be none other than the "aam aadmi", the "junta" of the entire city that voted him to power for the third time. | 15-Feb-2020 |
Kanhaiya Kumar's convoy attacked in Biha | Arrah (Bihar), Feb 15 (TIWN) Kanhaiya Kumar, the CPI leader and former president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union (JNUSU) escaped unhurt when his convoy was attacked in Bihar's Arrah district. | 15-Feb-2020 |
No relief for Omar, SC seeks reply from | New Delhi, Feb 14 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Friday sought a reply from the Jammu and Kashmir administration and other concerned authorities on Sara Abdullah Pilot's petition challenging the detention of her brother and former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. | 14-Feb-2020 |
BJP's Delhi post-mortem: Aim for 50% vot | New Delhi, Feb 14 (TIWN) The BJP on Friday held a day-long meeting at its Delhi headquarters where it found one main reason for its debacle and a solution. There was a unanimity over Congress "going silent" in the last few of days of polling, a fact that could have cost the BJP. Yet it was decided to plan ahead for 2025 Delhi polls, keeping the Congress out of mind. | 14-Feb-2020 |
EC to implement SC directive on candidat | New Delhi, Feb 14 (TIWN) The Election Commission on Friday said that it will implement the Supreme Court's recent directive for political parties to upload details of criminal cases against their candidates on their websites, newspapers and social media platforms. | 14-Feb-2020 |
Bombay HC Justice Dharmadhikari quits | Mumbai, Feb 14 (TIWN) Reluctant to take up his elevation and transfer as Chief Justice of another High Court, the second senior-most judge of the Bombay High Court, Justice Satyaranjan C. Dharmadhikari on Friday resigned, citing "personal and family" constraints. | 14-Feb-2020 |
Nation pays tributes to martyred CRPF me | Srinagar, Feb 14 (TIWN) The CRPF on Friday remembered the first death anniversary of 40 CRPF jawans killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district. | 14-Feb-2020 |
Cong hails SC order on criminals in poli | New Delhi, Feb 13 (TIWN) Welcoming the Supreme Court order for decriminalisation of politics and the direction to political parties to upload online details of pending criminal cases against candidates, the Congress here on Thursday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for appointing a tainted politician as Minister in Karnataka. | 13-Feb-2020 |
Two Tripura youths sentenced to death fo | Agartala, Feb 13 (TIWN) A special district court in southern Tripura on Thursday pronounced death sentence for two youths accused of brutal gangrape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. | 13-Feb-2020 |
Parties must publish candidates criminal | New Delhi, Feb 13 (TIWN) In a significant judgement, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed political parties to upload on their respective websites the details of all pending criminal cases against candidates contesting polls, citing the alarming increase in criminalisation of politics in past four general elections. | 13-Feb-2020 |
Delhi shows BJP needs a course correctio | New Delhi, Feb 13 (TIWN) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that mastered the art of vote consolidation through polarisation and reaped good political harvest seems to be faced with a situation where the time-tested tricks are failing to garner votes. | 12-Feb-2020 |
Nirbhaya's mother breaks down over delay | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN) Not happy with yet another adjournment given by the court, Nirbhaya's mother on Wednesday broke down inside the courtroom and pleaded the judge to issue fresh date for the execution of four convicts. | 12-Feb-2020 |
11 lakh connected with AAP's nation buil | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN) About 11 lakh people from all over the country have joined the Aam Aadmi Party's Rashtra Nirman (nation-building) campaign in just 24 hours, the party said on Wednesday. | 12-Feb-2020 |
Sonia Gandhi accepts resignations of Cha | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN) Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday accepted the resignations of Delhi Congress in-charge P.C. Chacko and state president Subhash Chopra. | 12-Feb-2020 |
Kejriwal elected leader of AAP legislatu | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN) Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has been elected as the leader of the AAP legislature party in the Assembly by the MLAs on Wednesday. | 12-Feb-2020 |
Kejriwal meets Delhi L-G Anil Baijal | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN) A day after Aam Aadmi Party got a resounding victory in Delhi elections, party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday called on Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal at the Raj Niwas here, ahead of government formation. | 12-Feb-2020 |
AAP sweeps Delhi polls with 62 seats, BJ | New Delhi, Feb 11 (TIWN) The Aam Aadmi Party swept the Delhi Assembly polls with 62 seats, five less than in 2015, as per the final results announced by the Election Commission on Tuesday night. | 11-Feb-2020 |
Modi, Rahul Gandhi wish Kejriwal, AAP on | New Delhi, Feb 11 (TIWN) After BJP President J.P. Nadda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi who congratulated AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on his spectacular victory in the Delhi Assembly elections. | 11-Feb-2020 |
Atishi, Raghav Chadha likely to be taken | New Delhi, Feb 11 (TIWN) With another landslide victory for the Aam Admi Party in the Delhi Assembly polls, party chief Arvind Kejriwal plans to rejig his cabinet when he forms the new government. | 11-Feb-2020 |
Bengal will drive last nail into BJP's c | Bankura (West Bengal), Feb 11 (IANS) Issuing a warning to the BJP hours after it was decimated in the Delhi Assembly polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the saffron party was now gradually becoming "a stateless entity" and her state will be the one to drive the last nail into the Bharatiya Janata Party's coffin. | 11-Feb-2020 |
Shiv Sena, NCP hail AAP victory in Delhi | Mumbai, Feb 11 (TIWN) The ruling Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) impending victory in Delhi Assembly polls is the result of solid and visible development works carried out at the ground level for the people of the national capital, the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi allies in Maharashtra said here on Tuesday. | 11-Feb-2020 |
AAP gains over BJP in early leads, all s | Delhi Assembly Election Result 2020 LIVE Updates: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party has taken early lead, while the BJP too has opened its account. Among the key candidates, AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal, Raghav Chadha and Manish Sisodia, and Aatishi, and BJP’s Tejinder Singh Bagga and Kapil Mishra are leading in their respective constituencies. The ruling AAP is eyeing a third consecutive term in Delhi. The three-cornered poll contest saw the AAP battle the Bharatiya Janata Party, whose high-pitched campaign was anchored by home minister Amit Shah and not Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the Congress. | 10-Feb-2020 |
Omar Abdullah's capacity to mobilise vot | Jammu, Feb 10 (TIWN) The dossier providing grounds for booking Omar Abdullah under the PSA states that the capacity of the former Chief Minister to influence people for any cause can be gauged from the fact that he was able to convince his electorate to come out and vote in huge numbers even during peak militancy and poll boycotts. | 10-Feb-2020 |
Congress hopeful of reaching double digi | New Delhi, Feb 10 (TIWN) The Congress is hopeful of winning some seats in the Delhi assembly elections held on February 8, the results of which will be announced on Tuesday. | 10-Feb-2020 |
NHRC notice to UP govt over 'atrocities' | New Delhi, Feb 10 (TIWN) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police (DGP), on a complaint filed by Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over alleged police atrocities during anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests in the state. | 10-Feb-2020 |