The Allahabad High Court has quashed an FIR lodged against a Muslim man over a marriage with a Hindu woman, ruling that she had a right to live her life on her own terms. Upholding the interfaith marriage in a case from Uttar Pradesh’s Etah district, a bench of Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Vivek Agarwal … Read more
NOIDA/LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday sent out summons to top Uttar Pradesh officials over the alleged gang-rape and death of a Dalit woman while the Congress staged a dramatic protest, leading to the detention of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra by UP police. The two leaders were detained in Greater Noida, just … Read more
BJP shouldn’t rejoice. It is dangerously close to emulating Congress. Synopsis The Cabinet may be suffering from a misallocation of portfolios. Nirmala Sitharaman is an upright and diligent finance minister with a background in economics. But should not her talent be better utilised in another important portfolio, leaving finance to say, railways and commerce minister … Read more
LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court expressed worry over the Covid situation in Uttar Pradesh and in multiple remarks suggested the government to consider the option of another “selective lockdown” even as it acknowledged the steps taken by the state to rein in the pandemic. It has asked the chief secretary to come up with a … Read more