Politics Today

One of the petitioners who moved the Supreme Court challenging a verdict by Allahabad high court that accepted the Uttar Pradesh government’s decision refuse sanction to prosecute Yogi Adityanath in a 2007 hate-speech case, was arrested on charges of gang rape. Read More

The Supreme Court declared the Aadhaar Act as constitutionally valid but canceled some of its provisions, which includes mandatory linking of Aadhaar with bank accounts, mobile numbers and school admissions. Read More

The Supreme Court said it cannot stop politicians with criminal cases from contesting polls and instead asked Parliament to enact a law to stop criminalization of politics. It said the country is facing a growing trend of criminalization of politics and it “attacks the roots of democracy”. Read More

Three former BJP heavyweights from Rajasthan are turning out to be a big problem for the party’s electoral prospects in the poll-bound state. The three senior leaders are Ghanshyam Tiwari, Manvendra Singh, and Hanuman Beniwal. Read More

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who is on two-day tour of his parliamentary constitution in Amethi, was welcomed by his supporters as “Shiv bhakt” amid chants of “Bumm Bumm Bole!” Read More

Arputhammal, the mother AG Perarivalan, of one of the Rajiv Gandhi’s killers, said she met the Tamil Nadu governor, Banwarilal Purohit, to seeking her convict son’s release. This comes after the Tamil Nadu cabinet’s recommendation to Purohit on matter. Read More

The Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on Thursday, announced that he will ensure that the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act would not be abused and no one would be arrested before the investigation. Read More

Prior to the assembly elections in three major states, the Bahujan Samaj Party has decided to contest the upcoming Chhattisgarh assembly election in the alliance with Ajit Jogi’s Janta Congress Chhattisgarh. Read More

The ongoing war for the power in Karnakata between the ruling JDS-Congress combine and the opposition BJP escalated and reached a new level on Thursday. Read More

In a letter, the UGC has asked the universities and institutions to observe September 29 as “Surgical Strike Day” to commemorate the surgical strikes the Indian Army carried on terrorist launch pads across the line of control into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, in 2016. Read More