Sunday, 22 December 2024
Sunday, 22 December 2024
A week after violence in Sandeshkhali, North 24 Parganas left three ED officers injured from a mob attack, Bengal police make their first arrest. The two suspects were reportedly hiding in a local fishery compound in the Sarberia-Agarhati Gram Panchayat area, the same region where Shahjahan Sheikh’s residence is located.
A brief Budget session of Parliament, the last of the 17th Lok Sabha, will be held between January 31 and February 9, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said. Since the term of the 17th Lok Sabha ends on June 16, it is set to be the last session of Parliament before general elections are announced.
Manipur government has constituted a three-member committee to make a detailed inquiry into fuel leak from a power plant in Imphal valley and spilling into streams flowing alongside, an official notification said. The three-member committee will also inquire into the contributing factors that led to such an incident, suggest immediate and long-term measures for the safety and security of the plant, the notification said, adding that the committee shall submit its report to the state government within 15 days.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at the residences of West Bengal Fire and Emergency Services Minister Sujit Bose, TMC MLA Tapas Roy and former North Dumdum Municipality chairman Subodh Chakraborty in connection with its probe into the irregularities in recruitments in civic bodies. The central agency officers also raided Tapas Roy's BB Ganguly Street residence and Chakraborty's residence in Birati, he said.
Supreme Court refused to stay the new law that provides for appointment of the chief election commissioner and election commissioners by a panel excluding the Chief Justice of India. The bench asked senior advocate Vikas Singh, appearing for Congress leader Jaya Thakur, who sought a stay on the new law, to serve a copy of the petition to the Centre's counsel.
Accused of committing genocide against Palestinians, Israel planned to defend its war in Gaza in front of the United Nations' highest court on Friday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the allegations as hypocrisy that 'screams to the heavens.' South African lawyers asked the court on January 11 to order an immediate halt to Israeli military operations in the besieged coastal territory that is home to 2.3 million Palestinians.
US-led airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi rebels in response to their attacks on Red Sea shipping pulled the world's focus back on the years-long war raging there, even as tensions rise across a Middle East already torn by Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. As the bombing lit the predawn sky over multiple sites held by the Iranian-backed rebels, Saudi Arabia quickly sought to distance itself from the attacks as it seeks to maintain a delicate détente with Iran and a cease-fire in the Yemen war from which it hopes to finally withdraw.
A crumpled note, written with eyeliner, recovered from a bag belonging to Suchana Seth indicates that she was upset over the custody of her four-year-old son, whom she allegedly put to death, a Goa police official said. Police said that a court had granted visitation rights to her husband Venkat Raman which had not gone down well with the accused.
The case of attack on an interfaith couple in Haveri district has taken a new twist with the woman alleging gangrape as the incident took a political colour with the opposition BJP targeting the Siddaramaiah government on the issue. The seven men who allegedly barged into a hotel room and attacked the couple at Hangal in Haveri district were charged with gangrape after the 26-year-old victim complained that she was sexually assaulted by them, police said.
Pankaj Tripathi has voluntarily stepped down as the National Icon of the Election Commission of India (ECI) as the actor is playing a real-life political figure in 'Main Atal Hoon'. "It is a normal process. The news has come out now but I had written to the ECI before the release of the film's trailer," the National Award-winning actor said.
