NEW DELHI: The Gujarat high court on Thursday granted six months’ bail to self-styled godman Asaram in a 2013 rape case in which he is serving a life sentence — nearly a week after the Rajasthan high court granted him bail in a separate, similar case.A division bench of Justices Ilesh Vora and RT Vachhani…
NEW DELHI: Opposition parties on Wednesday accused right-wing leaders of voting in more than one state, calling it “proof of vote theft.” The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and Congress claimed that Rajya Sabha MP and RSS ideologue Rakesh Sinha had voted in both the Delhi and Bihar elections. Sharing screenshots of…
KRISHNAGIRI: A woman and her boyfriend were arrested Wednesday on charges of installing a hidden camera in a bathroom of a hostel for Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd women employees in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu, superintendent of police (SP) Thangadurai said in a statement. The accused are Neelukumari Gupta (22) from Odisha, an employee of…
AHMEDABAD: ‘Hard videographic proof’ of three persons – one allegedly wielding an AK-47 – being involved in the 2002 communal riots withered away during trial, with the videographer recanting his statement and the tape disappearing. An Ahmedabad court has finally acquitted the three accused.The trio was booked on a complaint filed by a videographer, Satish…
SRINAGAR: The J&K opposition questioned Wednesday the motive behind the National Conference-led government’s exhaustive identification checklist for journalists, demanding to know if the new rules meant to “monitor and restrict media” were being selectively enforced in only one part of the country.“The election in J&K was meant to restore trust and dignity, not to replace…
NEW DELHI: In Bihar’s charged election season, everyone wants to be a ‘Jan Nayak’.When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the NDA’s campaign earlier this month by visiting Karpoori Gram, the native village of socialist icon Karpoori Thakur, and paying floral tribute at his memorial, it was more than a symbolic gesture. It was the first…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party hit back at the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, over his another “vote chori” allegations, this time in Haryana polls. Union minister Kiren Rijiju mocked the Congress leader’s repeated claims, quipping, “why doesn’t his atom bomb ever explode?”“Rahul Gandhi says that the atom bomb is going…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday dropped the ‘H-bomb’, alleging a large-scale voter fraud during the Haryana elections. The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha alleged that 1 in 8 voters in Haryana are fake, pointing to unexplained differences between postal and booth votes.The presser was held at Congress headquarters in…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a broadside against Bharatiya Janata Party and accused it of tampering with mandate in Haryana assembly elections.In a press conference, Rahul claimed theft of 25 lakh votes in Haryana, says it includes 5.21 lakh duplicate voters, 93,174 invalid voters and 19.26 lakh bulk voters. He added…
NEW DELHI: Security forces on Wednesday launched an anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar after receiving specific intelligence.In a social media post on X, Army’s White Knight corps said that it established contact with terrorists in general area of Chhatru which led to exchange of fire.“In an intelligence based operation, in concert with Jammu…