Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday hit out at BJP leader and former state minister Sudhir Mungantiwar for the latter's dare that he would get the Maha Vikas Aghadi government dismissed.
The freedom of the press was a valuable and sacred right enshrined in the Constitution and a fearless media was essential for an efficient working of democracy, Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana said on Wednesday and maintained journalists must resist being "co-opted by an ideology or the state".
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Wednesday attacked the government over "privatisation" of some institutions, saying it is a way to end reservation.
Karnataka reported 566 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths on Wednesday, taking the total number of infections to 30,05,798 and the toll to 38,324.
The Army's Court of Inquiry (CoI), probing the killing of 14 civilians in Nagaland's Mon district early December in firing by security forces, Wednesday inspected the Ground Zero' in Tiru-Oting area but the locals refused to cooperate with the team.
The National Commission for Minority (NCM) has taken cognisance of the alleged hate speeches delivered at religious conclaves in Haridwar and Raipur recently and sought reports from Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh governments, its chairman Iqbal Singh Lalpura said on Wednesday.
Concerning the case of police brutality, in which the police reportedly barged into an ongoing Mehendi function at the Kotathattu Barikere Koraga Colony and subjected the members of the Koraga community to unwarranted violence on Monday night, the Kota Station PSI Santhosh B. P has been suspended.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's planned visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first half of next month has been postponed, people familiar with the development said on Wednesday.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday appealed to pro-Kannada organisations not to go ahead with the state-wide bandh called by them on December 31, demanding a complete ban on the activities of the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi (MES).
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's brainchild initiative of demonetisation has become a "failure" as evident in seizure of a huge pile of cash from a businessman's residence in Uttar Pradesh.
