A Maoist was killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, police said on Monday (February 3, 2025(). The gunfight broke out in a forest along the border of Kanker and Narayanpur districts on Sunday afternoon during an anti-Naxal operation, a police official said in Kanker. The operation was launched by a […]
India and the U.K. are expected to resume the talks for the proposed free trade agreement from February 24, an official said. The U.K. Trade Minister is likely to visit the national capital soon, the official said. The talks for the proposed FTA began in January 2022. The 14th round of talks stalled as the […]
As rising salinity levels in waterbodies threaten ‘puncha’ paddy cultivation in Kuttanad and other parts of Alappuzha district in Kerala, farmers under the aegis of Aikya Kuttanad Padasekhara Ekopana Samithi took to the streets on Monday (February 3, 2025). They took out a protest march to Alappuzha District Collectorate, demanding urgent measures to reduce salinity […]
BJP leader Amit Shah on Monday (February 3, 2025) said States with a double-engine BJP government have progressed in the last 10 years, but Delhi has been left behind because the Aam Aadmi Party kept making excuses and fighting with the Centre. Speaking at a public meeting in Jangpura, Mr. Shah called AAP chief Arvind […]
Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna remarked on Monday (February 3, 2025) that the stampede deaths at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj was “unfortunate” but refused to entertain a petition to examine “lapses, negligence and utter failure of administration”. Heading a Bench with Justice Sanjay Kumar, the Chief Justice asked the petitioner, advocate Vishal Tiwari, […]
The Supreme Court of India on Monday (February 3, 2025) refused to entertain a special leave petition challenging a Karnataka High Court decision to quash a First Information Report (FIR) initiated on the basis of a complaint filed by Adarsh R. Iyer, co-president of the Janaadhikaara Sangharsha Parishath, against Nalin Kumar Kateel, former president of […]
The Madras High Court on Monday (February 3, 2025) directed Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) officials to consider a plea for granting permission to erect a flag post of actor-turned-politician C. Jospeh Vijay’s Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) at Tiruveethi Amman Kovil Street in Aminjikarai. Justice J. Sathya Narayana Prasad disposed of a writ petition filed by […]
Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan on Monday (February 3, 2025) alleged that the Left front government had changed its liquor policy in favour of the Oasis Commercial Private Ltd, which has received the Cabinet approval to set up a brewery in Elappully grama panchayat in Palakkad district. Mr. Satheesan quoted a document submitted […]
The Delhi High Court on Monday (February 3, 2025) granted interim bail till February 4, 2025 to expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Unnao rape case convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar for undergoing an eye surgery. A Bench of Justices Yashwant Varma and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar suspended his sentence, noting that Kuldeep Sengar’s cataract surgery […]
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu asserted that the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 was aimed at increasing the growth rate, for which various policy interventions were laid down. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, India was poised to emerge as a developed country, he stated. Addressing media persons in […]
