Police file chargesheet against 79 accused in Sambhal violence 

Police file chargesheet against 79 accused in Sambhal violence 

Police personnel with the man who has been arrested for allegedly supplying weapons during Sambhal violence, in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, on February 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Uttar Pradesh police submitted chargesheets running over 4,400 pages in six cases related to the Sambhal violence. The chargesheet mentioned Shariq … Read more

Police set up SITs, file FIRs in tablet scheme ‘scam’ in West Bengal

Police set up SITs, file FIRs in tablet scheme ‘scam’ in West Bengal

Education Minister Bratya Basu said the accused will be arrested. File photo | Photo Credit: ASHOKE CHAKRABARTY More allegations of fraud relating to the West Bengal government’s ‘tablet scheme’ came to the fore on Thursday with several schools in Kolkata, South 24 Parganas and other districts alleging that money allocated for the students have been diverted to other … Read more

Kerala Police file FIR against Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Kerala Police file FIR against Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI The Ernakulam Central Police have filed a First Information Report under Section 153 (wantonly giving provocation with an intent to cause riot) and 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion) of … Read more

TNPSC appointments row | Governor returns file, recommending ex-DGP as chairperson, again

TNPSC appointments row | Governor returns file, recommending ex-DGP as chairperson, again

Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi | Photo Credit: VELANKANNI RAJ B Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi has once again returned to the State government, the file recommending the name of former Director-General of Police C. Sylendra Babu for appointment as chairman, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC). Contending that the recommendations were inconsistent with Constitutional … Read more

Elgar Parishad case | Supreme Court asks NIA to file reply in four weeks on Navlakha’s plea to change accommodation

Elgar Parishad case | Supreme Court asks NIA to file reply in four weeks on Navlakha’s plea to change accommodation

A view of Supreme Court of India. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court on September 1 asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to file its reply within four weeks to a plea by activist Gautam Navlakha, who is under house arrest at a Mumbai public library in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, … Read more

File counter-affidavits in pleas seeking stay against Group-I preliminary exam: HC

File counter-affidavits in pleas seeking stay against Group-I preliminary exam: HC

Justice K. Sarath of the Telangana High Court on Thursday issued notices to the State government in a batch of writ petitions seeking a direction to stay the conduct of Group-I preliminary examination on June 11. The judge, after hearing three writ petitions filed by different persons, instructed the State government and the Telangana State … Read more

3,632 candidates file nominations for May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka

3,632 candidates file nominations for May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka

BJP supporters at a roadshow in support of party candidate for Hebbal constituency Katta Jagadish before filing of his nomination papers in Bengaluru on Thursday. | Photo Credit: PTI A total of 3,632 candidates filed nominations for the May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections, as per data from the Election Commission till Thursday, the last day … Read more

Calcutta HC directs Bengal government to file report on fresh Rishra violence

Calcutta HC directs Bengal government to file report on fresh Rishra violence

Security personnel deployed near Rishra railway station April 4, 2023 amid tension after clashes broke out between two groups during a ‘Ram Navami’ procession on April 2, 2023 in Hooghly district. | Photo Credit: PTI The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal government to file a report on fresh clashes in Rishra … Read more

States must file counter-affidavits in anti-conversion law cases in three weeks: SC

States must file counter-affidavits in anti-conversion law cases in three weeks: SC

A Bench led by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud said that more States are trying to “jump into the bandwagon” even while the court is hearing the case. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Supreme Court on Friday gave States three more weeks to file counter-affidavits to petitions challenging their anti-religious conversion laws, even as senior … Read more