Politics Today

The International Court of Justice ruled Pakistan violated Kulbhushan Jadhav’s rights by denying him consular access or allowing him to choose his lawyer during his trial and asked Islamabad ensure “effective review and reconsideration of his conviction and sentences.” Read More

A local court in the Jharkhand capital, Ranchi, put an unusual condition for granting bail to a young woman who was arrested for posting an alleged hate message on Facebook. Richa Bharati, 19, on her post, had allegedly targeted the Muslim community. Read More

Where the Congress party is still struggling to name their next president after resignation of Rahul Gandhi as party chief, some party leaders are expecting Priyanka Gandhi to take the rein in hand. Read More

The Supreme Court issued an interim order ruling that the speaker of Karnataka assembly, KR Ramesh Kumar, will decide on the resignations of 15 rebel Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) MLAs within a time frame the speaker may consider appropriate. Read More

Diplomats of United States, Russia, China and Pakistan have met in Beijing over a weekend to discuss the peace process in Afghanistan with the Taliban. However, India seems to have been left out from the talks. Read More

India’s most ambitious space mission so far, Chandrayaan-2, which was was scheduled to be launched at 2.51am on Monday, has been called off less than an hour before the lift off. The mission involves landing a rover on the Moon’s south pole. Read More

After 10 rebel MLAs personally submitted their fresh resignations to assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar in Bengaluru, he ruled out any immediate decision on the matter despite a Supreme Court order. Read More

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, directed the three-member mediation panel, which is headed by Justice FM Ibrahim Kalifulla, in the Ayodhya land dispute case to submit the status of the proceedings in the matter by July 18. Read More

The Central Bureau of Investigation, on Thursday, raided the house of senior lawyers Indira Jaising and her husband Anand Grover’s NGO. The agency accuses them of violating a law on foreign funding. Read More

In a major relief to the Karnataka government, assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar has asked for more time to look into the resignations submitted by the 14 MLAs. The speaker said he needs at least six days to decide on resignation as he has to make conscious decision. Read More