India

NEW DELHI —NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court of India has temporarily halted trial court proceedings in the defamation case against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. The case, initiated by BJP leader Rajiv Babbar, revolves around Tharoor’s controversial 2018 remark comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a scorpion, a statement originally published in a 2012 Caravan […]

SRINAGAR: Hailing from Naira, a village in Pulwama, Waheed ur Rehman Parra, a trusted associate of Mehbooba Mufti, began his education in local institutions before earning his Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies from the Islamic University of Science and Technology, located near Srinagar. As the second of three children, he comes from a well-established, […]

NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeals filed by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife, Rujira Banerjee, challenging the summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a coal scam investigation. The couple, who reside in Kolkata, had contested the ED’s directive requiring their presence in New Delhi.   […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a case against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, Special Public Prosecutor Pravin Pandit Chavan, and senior police officers for allegedly conspiring to falsely implicate BJP leaders in a fabricated case.   The investigation began after the CBI launched a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) into the […]

SRINAGAR: The Bijbehara constituency in South Kashmir is bracing for an intense political face-off in the upcoming Jammu & Kashmir elections. Once dominated by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the seat is now poised for a fierce battle between National Conference’s (NC) Dr Bashir Ahmad Veeri and PDP’s Iltija Mufti.   Iltija Mufti, 36, daughter […]