Politics Today

The United Nations secretary general, Antonio Guterres, on Tuesday, said India must back Bangladesh in putting more pressure on Myanmar to ease the Rohingya refugee crisis. Read More

A major controversy erupted in Bihar’s political circles after a senior JD(U) leader and minister in chief minister Nitish Kumar’s cabinet, Bijendra Prasad Yadav, refused to wear a skull cap at a Muslim conference held in Katihar, some 300km from state capital Patna. Read More

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal landed himself in controversy after lashing out at the BJP over the fatal police shooting of Apple executive Vivek Tiwari in Lucknow. In a tweet, he claimed that the “BJP was not protecting the interests of Hindus”. Read More

The Samajwadi Party along with six opposition parties promised to form an alliance with the Congress against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. However, the Left parties expressed their unwillingness to join an alliance with the Congress. Read More

Lucknow woke up to the shocking news of an Apple executive being shot dead by the police, on Saturday. The victim, Vivek Tiwari, worked as a sales manager with Apple. Read More

The in a major verdict, Supreme Court, on Friday, ruled that the women of all ages can enter the Ayyappa temple in Kerala’s Sabarimala. They said in the judgment that prohibiting the entry of women in the temple is gender discrimination. Read More

Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, while addressing a BJP meeting in Mumbai, tried to highlight BJP’s “four years of good governance” against the Congress-NCP government’s “15 years of misrule”. Read More

In the significant development, the Supreme Court declined to refer to a 5-judge bench the issue of the reconsideration of its observations in a 1994 verdict that the mosque wasn’t integral to Islam. Read More

The Supreme Court ruled that adultery is not a crime and struct down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code as unconstitutional. According to the law, a man can be penalized for having sex with a married woman without the consent of her husband. Read More

The Supreme Court refused the Centre’s appeal to reconsider its own 2006 verdict regarding quota on job promotions in the public sector for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and reiterated that is not mandatory for the government to provide reservations in job promotions. Read More