The Supreme Court agreed to look into legalising same-sex marriages in India four years after decriminalising adult consensual private sexual relationships between LGBTQ+ communities.
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30th Jan 2023 | Updated at 04:39pm 30th Jan 2023
SC asks govt to ensure that no one goes starving
At a time when the Global Hunger Index placed India at 107th place, the Supreme Court said the Centre and state governments must target elimination of hunger, even while praising their ‘excellent’ work during the pandemic to feed the poor and...
TMC, Cong attack govt over change in parliamentary panel heads
Speaker Om Birla objected to Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's comments, alleging "subversion of convention," and questioned him as to whether he was "challenging" the Speaker, whose job it is to choose who chairs the committees.
Border talk with Shah is pointless, says Karnataka CM
Ahead of the scheduled visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Nagpur for the inauguration of Samruddhi Expressway, former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said that the PM must speak on the “high-handedness” of the Karnataka chief minister.
DMK seeks to quash Citizenship Amendment Act
Seeking quashing of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) for being unconstitutional, DMK told the Supreme Court that the Act destroys the basic fabric of secularism by discriminating on the basis of religion and also it is against the Tamil race...
CBI court reserves order on ex-Bengal minister Partha’s bail plea
Former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee on Monday prayed for bail before a special CBI court in a case in connection with the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in state government-aided and sponsored...
TMC and BJP turn Bengal as battleground
West Bengal is all set for a power-packed political battle as two senior leaders of Trinamool Congress and BJP hold massive rallies in each other’s bastions.
Vibrant Gujarat roadshow held in Mumbai
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani held a roadshow in Mumbai on November 26, for the ninth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019
Manchester airport delivers major boost to north with new Mumbai connection
Jet Airways’ five-times-a-week service from Manchester to Mumbai took for the first time this morning, at a celebration attended by Aviation Minister, Baroness Liz Sugg and hundreds of guests from across the region.
On the Constitution Day, both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice DY Chandrachud emphasised the importance of technology in ensuring that the...
A group of students, who demanded that they be allowed to wear a ‘namabali’ (saffron scarf) in class, apparently to retaliate the permission another group received to wear hijab in school, came to blows with each other last week, prompting the...
The Supreme Court stayed the Calcutta high court orders directing the Central Bureau of India (CBI) investigation into the filing of an application by...
An NRI lyricist was arrested for an “anti-Dera” song he wrote in 2019.
Amritsar-based NRI Rajwinder Singh, who had fled Queensland in Australia after allegedly killing a woman four years ago and was carrying a reward of 1 million Australian dollars (over £540,000), was arrested by the Delhi Police on Friday.
The BJP suffered a setback in the Haryana Zila Parishad polls winning only 22 of the 100 seats it contested, while the AAP was at the second spot by bagging 15 seats out of the over 100 it contested on the party symbol.
An 85-year-old DMK man immolated himself in Salem district of Tamil Nadu to protest what he called the Centre’s moves to impose Hindi in the state.
The Telangana High Court on Monday accorded permission to state BJP chief and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar to take up the fifth phase of his 'Praja Sangrama Yatra' and a public meeting in Bhainsa town of Nirmal district, with certain conditions including...
Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai said his government is ‘seriously’ mulling implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state to ensure equality.
