Politics Today

Following the path of the US, the UK and China, India is all set to implement the witness protection plan in the country. The Supreme Court, while supporting the plan, has asked the Centre, states and Union territories to enforce the plan by the end of 2019. Read More

The Uttar Pradesh Police has filed FIR against 28 people in connection with the violence in Bulandshahr following rumours of cow slaughter that resulted in the death of a police inspector and a village youth. Read More

The Calcutta high court has denied the Bharatiya Janata Party the permission to hold rath yatras in Bengal, the first of which was to be flagged off by the BJP president, Amit Shah, in Cooch Behar, on Friday. Read More

Savitri Bai Phule, a dalit member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich, has quit the Bharatiya Janata Party, on Thursday, accusing her party for playing a divisive politics and disturbing the communal atmosphere. Read More

The Bharatiya Janata Party is planning to rope in renowned Bollywood actor Madhuri Dixit to contest from the Pune Lok Sabha constituency in the 2019 general election. Read More

Christian Michel, an alleged middleman in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam, has been sent to a five-day CBI custody by a Delhi court. Michel was extradited to India from Dubai, from where he was flown to New Delhi. Read More

Clashes broke out in Bulandshahr’s Syana area in Uttar Pradesh over alleged cow slaughter in which two people, including a police inspector, were killed. The officer, Subodh Kumar Singh, was killed when a mob attacked a police outpost and set a police vehicle on fire. Read More

While responding to the criticism and clarifying the role of his department in the release of GDP back-series data by the Central Statistics Office, the NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said that the department was asked to look at the data before its release. Read More

Following the Maharashtra government’s decision to grant 16 per cent reservation for the maratha community in government jobs and educational institutions, the brahman community in the state is now demanding survey of social and economic status of the community. Read More

While opposing the “plan”, purportedly initiated by the Jammu & Kashmir administration to bring changes in the rules for granting non-residents of the state permanent residency certificate, the state’s political parties have warned of “2008-like agitation”. Read More