The West Bengal government said on Monday that the controversial movie ‘The Kerala Story’ is “likely to cause a breach of peace” and that it has prohibited the screening of the film to avoid “any incident of hatred or violence to maintain law and order in the state.”
The Congress on Friday said that it has planned a mega protest across the country against the disqualification of its senior leader Rahul Gandhi as a Lok Sabha member and welcomed the impromptu support from various parties.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday termed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lak Sabha “the act of a scared government”.
Justice Katju recalls, before Independence and Partition in 1947, two top Congress party leaders, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad or Maulana Azad (who later became India’s Education Minister) and C. Rajagopalchari (known as Rajaji, who later became the Governor General of India) were in Allahabad and staying in the home of Jawahar Lal Nehru (who later became India’s Prime Minister) called Anand Bhawan.
“I live in India,” says Justice Katju, “and have never been to Lahore, though it is my dream to visit it at least once before I die (I am 77). But I doubt that I will ever get a visa to go to Pakistan.”
For tourists headed towards India, there is now an added attraction – the world’s longest river cruise – MV Ganga Vilas which was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. The cruise offers a 51-day trip from Varanasi to Dibrugarh via Bangladesh covering a 3200 km distance.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has written to 21 ‘like-minded’ parties to join the concluding function of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar on January 30, says Justice Katju
Love, they say, knows no bounds and, for the steadfast, even death cannot do them part. Kolkata’s Tapas Sandilya epitomizes eternal love. This retired government employee never stopped missing his wife, Indrani, after she passed away in May 2021, during the second wave of Covid. To once again feel the reassuring presence of his loving wife beside him, Sandilya has got a lifelike silicon statue made of her.
After a brief respite on New Year, cold wave conditions returned to New Delhi on Monday and people were found huddled around bonfires along the roads to beat the bone-chilling conditions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Hiraben passed away at the age of 100 early on Friday morning. She was admitted to Ahmedabad’s UN Mehta Hospital after her health deteriorated.
An impressive, star-studded gathering at the inauguration of the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival here on Thursday evening was taken by a bit of surprise, when Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, usually known for dodging political issues, suddenly referred to issues like “civil liberties” and “freedom of expression”.
Mayank Chhaya- For 34 years between 1977 and 2011 the Left Front, with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM as its main constituent, ruled the state of West Bengal. With its thumping electoral victory in Gujarat’s just concluded assembly elections the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has moved a step closer to repeating that […]
I have given many judgments in the Supreme Court quoting verses from Urdu poetry. They are in my book ‘Justice with Urdu’ published by Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt Ltd. New Delhi
IANS- Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19, the Election Commission announced on Sunday setting a two-and-half month-long process for people to either vote in the Narendra Modi-led dispensation once again or choose an alternative. Counting of votes in 543 constituencies will be taken up on […]
