Everything has been snatched from us, don’t take away vote now: Mehbooba Mufti writes to ECI after BJP, others suggest postponing polls

Everything has been snatched from us, don’t take away vote now: Mehbooba Mufti writes to ECI after BJP, others suggest postponing polls

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti. File | Photo Credit: ANI Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti was up in arms on April 26, as a group of parties, including the BJP, wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to postpone elections for the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat. … Read more

Ugadi ushers in an air of festivity; don’t worry about the name of the new year, say astrologers

Ugadi ushers in an air of festivity; don’t worry about the name of the new year, say astrologers

Priests performing Pushparchana at Kanaka Durga Temple in Vijayawada on Tuesday on the occasion of Ugadi. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri ‘Krodhi Nama Samvatsara Ugadi’, the Telugu New Year,  was celebrated with traditional fervour in the city on Tuesday. Temple managements organised the festivities in a grand manner, and ‘Panchanga pathana’ was the main event … Read more

Don’t insist on security documents from farmers under Paddy Procurement Scheme: Kerala High Court tells banks

Don’t insist on security documents from farmers under Paddy Procurement Scheme: Kerala High Court tells banks

The Kerala High Court building in Ernakulam (file) | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU The Kerala High Court has observed that the credit rating of farmers who effectively sell their paddy to the government under the Paddy Procurement Scheme (PRS) can never be affected as the court has already held that they cannot not be construed to be … Read more

Don’t harass the innocent, arrest the real culprits: Nuh MLA

Don’t harass the innocent, arrest the real culprits: Nuh MLA

Locals at a market after curfew was relaxed for a few hours, in violence-hit Nuh district on August 10, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The Congress MLA from Nuh, Aftab Ahmed, on Friday, August 11, 2023 said innocent local youth should not be harassed in the name of investigation into the recent communal clashes in … Read more

Ready to discuss Manipur on August 11, have nothing to hide; you don’t want to talk: Amit Shah to Opposition in RS

Ready to discuss Manipur on August 11, have nothing to hide; you don’t want to talk: Amit Shah to Opposition in RS

Union Home Minister Amit Shah speaks during the discussion on The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023 in Rajya Sabha during the Monsoon Session of Parliament on August 7, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday (August 7) said the government is ready for a discussion … Read more

Don’t take minority votes for granted, community leader tells Jharkhand Congress leaders

Don’t take minority votes for granted, community leader tells Jharkhand Congress leaders

Charging the Jharkhand Government with not doing enough for the weaver community, which is predominantly Muslim, Manzoor Ahmad Ansari, the All India Momin Conference chief, has said the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress coalition should not take the community’s votes for granted.  Mr. Ansari made these comments in the presence of senior State Congress leaders and … Read more