Averse to further exacerbating inter-religious tensions in the wake of discovery of a purported 'shivling' inside Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque that the Muslim side described as part of a fountain, the Supreme Court accepted Friday the joint suggestion of the Centre and the UP government to defer carbon-dating of the structure as directed by the Allahabad high court a week ago.
In a big, dramatic move, the Centre promulgated an ordinance to nullify the recent Supreme Court order that had given Delhi government control over officers dealing with subjects other than public order, police and land, and assigned the superintending jurisdiction over the entire officer cadre in the National Capital Territory to the lieutenant governor.
Congress high command on Friday authorised Karnataka CM-elect Siddaramaiah and his would-be deputy D K Shivakumar to pick 10 faces each for a possible 29 to 30-member ministry, setting the template for the functioning of the new state government that will be sworn in Saturday in the presence of the party brass, CMs from four UPA allies and a representative of newfound friend TMC.
Actor SRK's son Aryan and his friend Arbaaz Merchant were named as accused in the 2021 Cordelia cruise drug bust case at last moment by the NCB-Mumbai, then led by Sameer Wankhede, said an affidavit filed by IPS officer Gnyaneshwar Singh who had supervised the probe.
The standalone change that pulled against the speculation of a largescale ministerial shake-up on the cards was widely considered a downgrade for Rijiju, who would often forcefully take issue with the judiciary in public. It sparked a buzz about the possible reason for the sudden move.
DK Sureshkumar, Shivakumar's brother and Congress's sole Lok Sabha member from Karnataka, expressed dissatisfaction, but the elder sibling said he relented keeping in mind the party's stakes in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Both students, 21 years old and in third-year sociology, died - Sneha Chaurasia before she reached hospital and Anuj Singh, the shooter, in the hostel room. The shooting happened 10 minutes after Anuj mailed a confessional statement, titled 'my suicide note', to a university group at 1.18pm. Police received a call about a student being shot at 1.30pm.
