Bilkis Bano moves SC challenging the release of 11 convicts

Bilkis Bano moves SC challenging the release of 11 convicts

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Bilkis Bano has moved the Supreme Court against the release of 11 men convicted of gang-raping her in the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Advocate Shobha Gupta,…

Two local trains collide near Kolkata's Sealdah rly station, no casualties reported

Kolkata (IANS) Two local trains collided near Kolkata's Sealdah railway station on Wednesday morning, sources said.

However, no casualties were reported.

According to railway sources, one local train started from platform number…

China plans crackdown after Covid protests

Beijing (IANS) China's top security agency has called for a crackdown on "hostile forces" after rare protests against the government strict zero-Covid policy broke out across major cities during the weekend, the media reported.

Police officers…

Frontier areas being developed to help people remain in border villages: Arunachal CM

Itanagar (IANS) Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu said that the bordering areas of the state would be developed to facilitate the people to remain in their villages and not migrate while the Centre would invest Rs 50,000 crore to construct…

No kind of negligence or laxity will be tolerated in various schemes being run under Mnrega- Secretary

Ranchi: Secretary of the Rural Development Department Prashant Kumar said that several developments and welfare schemes of the Rural Development Department are going on across the state and Deputy Commissioners and Development Commissioners have an…

SC serves Notice to Chief Secretary over not providing reservation to OBCs in municipal elections

Ranchi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice of contempt to the Chief Secretary of the Government of Jharkhand. The Supreme Court gave this notice during the hearing of a contempt petition filed by Giridih MP Chandra Prakash Chowdhary in the Supreme Court.…

HC takes suo moto cognizance of irregularities in building plan approvals

Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday took suo moto cognizance of the game of money in the building plan approvals in the municipal bodies of the state.

The development took place in a division bench headed by Justice S Chandrashekhar after…

Land acquisition work completed for Kantatoli flyover project

Ranchi: In the wake of the instructions of Chief Minister Hemant Soren the land acquisition work has been completed in Mauja-Konka and Seram for the flyover project from Yogda Satsang Ashram, Bahubazar to Shanti Nagar, Kokar (Via Kantatoli Chowk) within…

Kher weighs in on 'The Kashmir Files' row, attacks '#Toolkit gang'

New Delhi (IANS) It may have been an Israeli director and screenwriter, invited by the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to head its jury, whose criticism of 'The Kashmir Files' has stirred a hornet's nest, but the Vivek Agnihotri…

'The Kashmir Files' critic Nadav Lapid has been equally harsh on Israel

New Delhi (IANS) There could not have been a better candidate than the Israeli director and screenwriter, Nadav Lapid, for the honour of being made chairman of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) jury.

Lapid has won top awards at…