AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court dismissed a PIL seeking a ban on the use of loudspeakers for azaan, observing that the call to prayer does not create noise pollution as it lasts less than 10 minutes.The bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Aniruddha Mayee junked the plea filed by Dharmendra Prajapati, a doctor … Read more
BHOPAL: Prashann Singh, a Madhya Pradesh revenue official, was crushed to death under a tractor by sand mining mafia in Shahdol district late Saturday.Police arrested tractor driver Shubham Vishwakarma (22), and the vehicle owner, Narayan Singh, both residents of Maihar. They were booked for murder, Shahdol ADG DC Sagar said.Prashann Singh, 40, was a patwari … Read more
NEW DELHI: After almost two days of hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the validity of some provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and for review of a 2022 verdict which upheld the law, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the case would have to be heard afresh by a new … Read more
NEW DELHI: In an important ruling, the Supreme Court on Monday said high courts or sessions courts are not barred by jurisdiction for entertaining anticipatory bail pleas and held that they are empowered to grant transit bail to an accused even though the offence was committed in another jurisdiction or state. The court though put … Read more
A day after he took oath as Maldives president, Mohamed Muizzu asked India in an official communication to pull out its military personnel from the Indian Ocean archipelago. The president’s office said Muizzu requested withdrawal of Indian troops in a meeting with Indian minister Kiren Rijiju, who was in Male for the inauguration of the … Read more
NEW DELHI: While change is the natural order, there continues to be a resistance for a greater role for the Global South in shaping solutions for the key issues of our times, foreign minister S Jaishankar said addressing the second Global South summit India hosted on Friday.The minister said that the Global South needed to … Read more
NEW DELHI: One person was killed and several others were injured on Sunday after a passenger train collided with another passenger train near Alamanda-Kankatapalli in Vizianagaram district in Andhra Pradesh.The train was travelling to Rayagada from Visakhapatnam when three coaches derailed. Rescue operation is under way. Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy expressed … Read more
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday received a formal invitation for the consecration ceremony of the grand Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22.“Jai Siya Ram. Today is a day full of emotions. The officials of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust came to meet me at my residence and invited me to … Read more
Dem Rep. Jamie Raskin says he has ‘several’ names of Republicans he’d back for speaker Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told Fox News Digital that “if this doesn’t work with Jim Jordan, yes,” he sees a potential bipartisan coalition for speaker and talked up House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. “I mean, we certainly promote and … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass status quo order on Bihar caste survey, saying that restraining the state government from taking policy decision would be wrong.The Supreme Court told the plea of petitioners that Bihar’s caste survey being violative of right to privacy may not right but the important issue was … Read more