A court in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri has summoned Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair on July 11 in a case registered in November last year on the charge of promoting enmity, a senior official said Saturday.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday said a rift is being created between communities on account of "political opportunism".
Socialist leader Shivpal Yadav on Saturday said he has "decided" to vote for the NDA candidate in the presidential polls, Droupadi Murmu, and blamed Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav's "political immaturity" for allies leaving him.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said there has been no report of any untoward incidents related to Kannadigas so far, following the flashflood triggered by a cloudburst near the cave shrine of Amarnath in Jammu and Kashmir where the death toll has risen to 16.
A day after the ED issued a FEMA show-cause notice of Rs 61.72 crore against Amnesty India and its former head Aakar Patel, the agency on Saturday said it has filed a money-laundering chargesheet against the organisation and a few other entities.
Jamia Millia Islamia cannot take shield of the court to get money from the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Delhi High Court has observed while rejecting a plea by the varsity to direct the commission to release funds for the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women Studies.
The Opposition's joint candidate for the presidential election Yashwant Sinha on Saturday expressed anguish over the lives lost due to a cloudburst near the Amarnath cave shrine and urged the government to place facts about the incident before the country.
The Vidhana Sabha leader of the opposition Siddaramaiah said, “If Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai were to resign, the state would benefit from it”, he expressed.
Due to the relentless heavy rains which have been falling for the past couple of days, the hill at the Chittur village in Vandse Hobali had reportedly collapsed in an apparent landslide in the Kundapur Taluk putting several homes at risk.
