Kanwar Yatra: Supreme Court to hear plea challenging QR code mandate for vendors on July 15 The Supreme Court will hear on July 15, a writ petition seeking stay on the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand government’s decision mandating all eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route to display QR code stickers on their banners. The Bench…
By Inderjit Badhwar The surprise triumph of Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary is, on its face, a quintessentially American story: A young, second-generation immigrant defies the odds, unseats a seasoned political giant, and charts a path to power powered not by money, but by authenticity and grassroots mobilization. But to see…
By Kenneth Tiven Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City has stirred euphoria among young progressives and a firestorm of opposition from political elites—delivering all the emotional highs and ideological conflict of a feel-good political thriller, minus the Hollywood ending. At just 33, the Indian-American state legislator pulled…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday pleaded ‘not guilty’ in a criminal defamation complaint filed against him for passing alleged derogatory remarks against freedom fighter and right-wing leader Vinayak Damodar Savarkar during his speech at London in 2023. Gandhi did not appear personally before the court. He moved an application through his lawyer Milind Pawar, seeking…
A Delhi court has sentenced a man to three-year imprisonment for promoting hatred against a particular minority community during the 2020 North East Delhi riots. While pronouncing the quantum of sentence, Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh of Karkardooma Courts, however, ordered the release of Lokesh Kumar Solanki as he had already spent more than three years…
A Delhi court has discharged 10 Trinamool Congress leaders, including journalist-turned-politician Sagarika Ghose, MP Derek O’Brien and party spokesperson Saket Gokhale, in a criminal case related to their protest outside the Election Commission of India (ECI) premises in 2024, despite prohibitory orders. The order was passed on Thursday by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Neha…
The Supreme Court will hear on July 14, the anticipatory bail petition of Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya, accused of portraying Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in an undignified manner. Advocate Vrinda Grover mentioned the matter before the Bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, which agreed to list…
The Delhi High Court on Thursday stayed the release of film ‘Udaipur Files,’ based on the murder of tailor Kanhaiya Lal Teli, who was allegedly killed by two Islamists in Udaipur in 2022. After a detailed hearing, the Bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Anish Dayal directed the Central government to exercise its…
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission of India to consider accepting the Aadhaar card, ration card and the voter ID card as acceptable citizenship documents for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. The partial working days Bench of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Joymalya Bagchi further recorded the…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on bail petitions of seven persons arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act over the larger conspiracy leading to riots in North-east Delhi in 2020. After hearing arguments for some time, the Division Bench of Justice Naveen Chawla and Justice Shalinder Kaur reserved its judgment on…