The judges cited a SC judgment from September 2022 holding that reproductive autonomy requires that every pregnant woman has the intrinsic right to choose to undergo or not to undergo abortion without any consent from a third party.
The compensation payable to the kin of the victims, numbering at least 80 people from the majority Meitei and tribal Kuki communities, will be contributed equally by the Centre and the state government, officials said.
India had earlier invited leaders of all member-countries for the summit - the first under its presidency - that will be chaired by PM Narendra Modi. An in-person summit would have seen Modi coming face-to-face with both Xi and Sharif at a time ties with China have been wrecked by the boundary dispute and when the relationship with Pakistan is nearing rock bottom.
A court in Pakistan had sentenced him to prison time along with two other JuD leaders, Malik Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, in August 2020 for financing terror, ahead of a September 2020 deadline for Pakistan to avoid being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global financial watchdog, for failing to curb “terror financing”.
The two communities had clashed previously over territory and identity, but the violence since May 3 has been the worst in their tumultuous history, leaving over 100 people dead and scores wounded. While both sides say they want the hostilities to end, the underlying message is that they would rather not live together.
Around 19 minutes after the rocket lifted off from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, the 51.7m-tall, 420 tonnes three-stage GSLV-F12 placed the 2,232kg satellite at a 251km altitude. In the coming days, Isro scientists will perform manoeuvres by firing the onboard propellant to place the satellite in its final orbit.
According to Nibua Naurangiya police station SHO Atul Srivastava, Nand Lal Kushwaha of Bahora Ramnagar village entered the septic tank of his house to clean it and fell unconscious because of toxic gases.
The project was initially approved at Mhaladevi village in Ahmednagar in 1970 at an estimated cost of Rs7.9 crore. The dam was supposed to have a holding capacity of 11 TMC. Nine years on, in 1979, the project was relocated to Nilwande and the capacity was reduced to 8.5 TMC. With all the delays, the final cost of the project went up to Rs 5,177 crore - around Rs 5,169 crore more than the initial budget.
Sources said 4,051 candidates had registered for UPSC prelims in Imphal but after UPSC provided them an alternative to choose from exam centres in a few other states, about 700 opted to appear from outside Manipur.
"This new building will see the fulfilment of the resolutions of a developed India. This new building is also an ideal for the coexistence of the new and the old," he said.
The petitioner was friendly with the accused since 2016. In 2018, she married another man and had a child. On October 7, 2022 her drunk husband mercilessly beat her and their minor son. She phoned her former boyfriend around midnight. He asked her to come to his place with her son. He promised to marry her and had physical relations with her.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will hold separate meetings with Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and his bete noire Sachin Pilot on Monday in Delhi, a senior party leader familiar with the development said. The chief minister's office has also released Gehlot's programme confirming his visit to Delhi, where he will also lay foundation stone of the Rajasthan House.
With industry bigwigs and domain experts from academia to sports in attendance, industrialist Sunil Bharti Mittal lauded the existing ecosystem that allowed India to be the fastest in rolling out 5G network by March, 2024.
The judge pointed out that while Virkar had complained to the cops on April 12 alleging that the informant and others assaulted them, the informant’s FIR was lodged only on April 21.
The monsoon this year may have a sluggish start with the country receiving “below normal” rainfall in June. However, the entire four-month (June-September) period is likely to collectively get “normal” rainfall, according to the latest forecasts of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) released on Friday. There is a 55% probability of “normal to above normal” rainfall during the season in India.
Accusing PM Modi and “his drumbeaters” of creating a “bogus” narrative about the ‘sengol’ (sceptre) to be installed in the new Parliament hall, Congress on Friday said there was no documented evidence that the sceptre was given by the British to first PM Jawaharlal Nehru as a symbol of transfer of power.
After hectic parleys in Delhi over the past two days, Congress on Thursday is believed to have zeroed in on 20 to 24 MLAs who are likely to be inducted in the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka. The new ministers will be sworn in on Saturday at 11.45am, likely at Raj Bhavan, Congress functionaries said.
Foreign minister S Jaishankar will travel to Cape Town next week to participate in the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting that will look to firm up the agenda for the summit that South Africa will host in August. The foreign ministers’ meeting is an important forum for focus on political and security cooperation among the member-states and Jaishankar will likely use it to stress the need for all to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States without making any exception.
Union home minister Amit Shah assured strife-torn Manipur on Thursday that “no injustice will be done to anyone”, saying he would make a three-day visit to the state next week to talk to the feuding Meitei and Kuki communities and find a way out of the spiral of mistrust and violence triggered by “a verdict of a court”. Shah’s remarks here came a day after a fresh spell of violence in Manipur, including firing by suspected tribal militants, arson and a mob attack.
Indians will soon be able to cruise their 4x4s or launch biking blitz through some forbidden land in the strategic Chang Chenmo sector close to patrolling points north of Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh, even as the border standoff with China is into its fourth year now.
Refusing sex to one’s spouse for a prolonged period without justifiable reason amounted to mental cruelty, the Allahabad HC recently observed while dissolving a couple’s marriage. Varanasi resident Ravindra Pratap Yadav had filed an appeal against a family court’s order dismissing his divorce petition on November 28, 2005. He had sought divorce on the grounds of mental cruelty inflicted by his wife by refusing to co-habit and discharge the obligations of marital life.
Amid an escalating fight over who should inaugurate the new Parliament building on Sunday, PM Narendra Modi cited the presence of his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese and the latter’s predecessor Scott Morrison at the event organised by the Indian community in Sydney this week to suggest that partisan differences should not take precedence over matters of national importance.
A total of 24 ministers will take oath on Saturday as part of the Karnataka Cabinet expansion. Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar were sworn in as Karnataka CM and deputy CM respectively along with eight cabinet ministers on May 20. Karnataka can have a maximum of 34 ministers and the Congress will find it difficult to accommodate all the aspirants.
Twenty opposition parties have announced a boycott of the ceremony to unveil the new Parliament building on Sunday, arguing that the inauguration by PM Narendra Modi by “sidelining” President Droupadi Murmu constitutes a “grave insult and direct assault on democracy”.
Brushing aside the reservations and boycott calls by several opposition parties against inauguration of the new Parliament building, the government is leaving no stone unturned to celebrate the occasion in a grand manner and in line with age-old traditions and rituals to be presided over by priests belonging to a 500-year-old Dharmic mutt in Tanjore.
An opposition boycott of the new Parliament building’s inauguration by Prime Minister Modi now looks increasingly likely with sources in Congress saying that non-BJP outfits it has consulted with agree that they should stay away from the ceremony over the “exclusion” of President Droupadi Murmu whereas she should be the one doing the honours.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi moved a Delhi court on Tuesday seeking a no-objection certificate for issuance of a fresh ordinary passport as he had surrendered his diplomatic passport on being disqualified as member of Parliament after being convicted in a defamation case. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Vaibhav Mehta sought the response of Subramanian Swamy, the complainant in the National Herald case, to Rahul’s application, and posted the matter for hearing on Wednesday.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has called upon opposition parties to block in Rajya Sabha the bill to replace the ordinance promulgated on Friday to neutralise the Supreme Court verdict that gave the Delhi government control over bureaucracy in the national capital, but the BJP leadership seems hopeful of clearing the numbers test in the Upper House with the support of YSR Congress and BJD.
In a bizarre contrast to the iconic scene in the 1995 blockbuster, the Shoranur-bound train jumped a small station and went past - only to reverse nearly 1 km minutes later to the bewilderment of its passengers, rail officials and others.
A second-year BA student of a government college in Haryana's Pataudi is in ICU after being allegedly thrashed by six seniors on the campus Friday morning. His father claimed Chander Shekhar was attacked during a ragging session. Three of the six senior students were arrested, but released on bail.
A Hindu BJP leader in Uttarakhand cancelled his daughter's wedding to a Muslim man after the invite went viral. Right-wing organisations like the VHP and the Bajrang Dal held a series of protests against Yashpal Benam on Friday.
Addressing a G7 session in Japan's Hiroshima on Sunday, PM Modi called into question the effectiveness of the UN and its Security Council. He said these global bodies would be reduced to acting merely like a "talk shop" if they didn't address problems faced by the developing world and were unable to resolve conflicts.
The NDA currently has a strength of 110 in the House and it can add a few more by filling the two vacancies of nominated members. Even then, it will still be eight short of the majority mark in the House with an effective strength of 238.
Pranav Ramesh Salkar is the toast of Palghar district, 128 km from Mumbai, after he dug a well for his mother near his hut in Kelve, a sleepy village, early this month. "I am happy aai will no longer have to do daily trips to the rivulet," he said on Saturday.
India will do all it can to end the war through dialogue and diplomacy and help ameliorate the pain and suffering of the Ukrainian people, PM Narendra Modi told Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in their first bilateral meeting since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A man from Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, whose son was summoned by the NIA in connection with the Elathur train arson case, was found dead in a hotel room in Kochi on Friday. The deceased, Mohd Shafeeq (46), was found hanging from a pipe in the bathroom of the hotel.