New Delhi: A day after a special IWC court in Lucknow acquitted all 32 defendants in the Babri Masjid demolition case, including former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, former Union Ministers Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, the Former Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Kalyan Singh, newspaper editorials expressed concern over …
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Twenty-eight years after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, a special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation acquitted the 32 people accused in the case on Wednesday and dismissed any criminal conspiracy due to lack of conclusive evidence against them. Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Lal Krishna Advani, …
Read More »Bhagat Singh was a thinking individual, not just a crude nationalist
Bhagat Singh was born that day in 1907, in a town called Banga, now in Pakistan. The town, like every year, plans to celebrate its birthday with pride. The birth of Bhagat Singh turned this remote dusty town into a place of pilgrimage. It has been declared as a national …
Read More »Senior police officer caught beating wife on camera, MP Govt relieves him of duty
Mumbai: After a video of the Director General of Police in charge of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Purushottam Sharma, beating his wife appeared on social media, the Madhya Pradesh government decided to relieve him of his duties. An order, signed by the Department of the Interior, said that the 1986 …
Read More »Hindustan Times News Updates: ‘Your Arrangements Will Take Care Of Everything,’ Says Adar Poonawalla Praises PM Modi’s Vaccine Vision And All Latest News
Here are today’s top news, analysis and views. Find out all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times. ‘Your arrangements will take care of everything’: Adar Poonawalla praises PM Modi’s vaccine vision The chief executive of the Pune-based pharmaceutical company thanks Prime Minister Modi for his …
Read More »Vodafone v. India – End of a saga?
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ultimately ruled in favor of telecoms giant Vodafone in an investment treaty arbitration (ITA) dispute against India, initiated under the India-Netherlands Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). This ruling marks the culmination of nearly a decade of bitter tax dispute between India and the …
Read More »Union MoS for Railways Suresh Angadi Dies Due to COVID-19
New Delhi: The Minister of State for Railways and Karnataka BJP deputy Suresh Angadi passed away on Wednesday, days after testing positive for COVID-19. The 65-year-old man passed away around 8 p.m. at the AIIMS trauma center, which has been converted into a dedicated COVID-19 facility. Angadi, Belagavi’s fourth-term deputy, …
Read More »English newspapers condemn the decision of the vice president of RS to carry out a voice vote
Mumbai: English newspaper editorials have unanimously criticized Rajya Sabha Vice President Harivansh Narayan Singh’s refusal to carry out a vote split and the ensuing chaos that followed in passing the Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) bill of 2020 Farm Products and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price …
Read More »Top-down decision making will not help improve farmers’ incomes
Agriculture is a state issue on India’s constitutional list; This list includes matters that require local knowledge. Agriculture is a biological business with a diverse climate and locally grown crops. The coconut farms of humid Kerala need a different plan than the apple farms of chilling Kashmir. The central government …
Read More »Proposed FCRA amendment will deal another blow to India’s nonprofit sector
The Foreign Contributions Amendment (Regulation) Bill (FCRA) of 2020 was introduced in the current session of parliament. The amendment seeks to make specific changes to the FCRA law, first introduced in 2010 by the UPA government and whose rules were amended in 2012, 2015 and 2019. The law provides the …
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