A plea has been moved before the Delhi High Court seeking a direction for immediate action against Prime Minister Narender Modi and other candidates contesting in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections over alleged hate speech in violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said his party too has made mistakes and will have to change its politics in future. The remark came at an event in Lucknow where he accused the Narendra of being a monarch and not a prime minister, calling him a front for “two three financiers”.
Delhi's Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, has been released from Tihar Jail after securing interim bail in the excise policy case. The Supreme Court's decision to grant him bail until June 1 brings a temporary reprieve for Kejriwal amid ongoing legal proceedings.
A Delhi court has ordered the framing of sexual harassment charges against BJP MP and former WFI Chief Brij Bhushan Singh in the case filed by women wrestlers.
In an unprecedented action, the Election Commission on Friday castigated Congress President Kharge for obstructing the ongoing Lok Sabha election. The commission said the Congress President had made caseless allegations regarding the release of voter turnout data in the middle of ongoing polls which are designed to create confusion, misdirection and impediments in the conduct of free and fair polls. The commission further said that such utterances can have a negative impact on voters' participation and demoralize the large election machinery across states.
The Supreme Court granted interim bail to jailed Delhi Chief Minister (CM) Arvind Kejriwal till June 1 on Friday in the money laundering case registered against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the Delhi excise policy.
The Shadnagar police on Friday registered a case against BJP candidate Navneet Rana for making comments during an election campaign meeting stating that a vote for Congress is nothing but supporting Pakistan. In the complaint, officials of the Election Commission stated Navneet Rana, while addressing a crowd, had said, "If you give vote to Rahul Gandhi, you are giving a vote to Pakistan."
A Special Court in Pune on Friday acquitted three accused including Virendrasinh Tawde, Sanjeev Punalekar and Vikram Bhave in the activist Narendra Dabholkar murder case. The court sent two accused to life imprisonment for allegedly killing Narendra Dabholkar in Pune on August 20, 2013.
In a horrific incident, a man in Delhi has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and sexually harassing an eight-year-old girl. Police said that after kidnapping the girl, the man sexually assaulted her for 24 hours. The ordeal left her body scarred with injuries inflicted by the harasser's teeth in multiple places.
A fatal accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway has left three people dead and eight others injured. The incident occurred near the Bhor Ghat section when a truck traveling towards Pune suffered a brake failure.
Mumbai, May 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to hold a roadshow in Bhubaneswar on May 10. The security arrangements have been beefed up for PM's event, said the police. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Bhubaneswar on May 10th and has a roadshow planned in Janpath, Bhubaneswar. The roadshow is planned for the night hours," Prateek Singh, DCP, Bhubaneswar, told ANI.
On Thursday, President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday conferred Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan to people from various fields during the second civil investiture ceremony of Padma Awards 2024 at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. In a major breakthrough in the Air India Express crisis, which had led to the cancellation of over 170 flights since Wednesday, the airline's management has sent letters reinstating all 25 crew members who had been sacked for participating in the 'mass leave' protests. All 300 crew members who had reported sick are expected to return to duty immediately.
At least eight people died and several injured in an explosion in a firecracker factory in Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar on Thursday. The blast occurred in a firecracker factory in Sivakasi's Sengamalapatti, owned by Sudharshan, on Thursday afternoon, destroying seven factory rooms. Locals said that the magnitude of the blast was so high that a loud bang was heard from a distance of around 1 km. White smoke could be seen emanating from the factory after the blast.
An Indian student in Chicago, US, has been missing since May 2. Rupesh Chandra Chintakindi, a 26-year-old master's student, has worried his Hyderabad-based family, and they are doing everything possible to locate him. According to an ANI report, the Consulate General of India (CGI) in Chicago and the local police are trying to locate Chintakindi, a master's student from Concordia University, Wisconsin.
A training aircraft crashed into a river in Bangladesh's Chattogram on Thursday. One of the two pilots who were aboard the aircraft died in the accident. A plane with 78 passengers skidded off a runway before takeoff at Senegal's main airport on Tuesday, injuring 11 people and bringing the facility to a halt. The Blaise Diagne airport said an investigation was underway to determine the cause of the accident, which occurred at around 0100 GMT (6:30â€ïam IST) as the Transair-owned Boeing 737-300 BA.N chartered by Air Senegal was preparing to fly to Mali.