Friday, 17 May 2024
Friday, 17 May 2024
Karnataka Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara said a lookout circular has been issued to arrest Hassan JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna who is facing allegations of sexually abusing women. Prajwal is the grandson of former Prime Minister and JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda and son of MLA and former Minister H D Revanna.
An order was issued to terminate 223 contractual employees of the Delhi Commission of Women after Lt Governor VK Saxena gave his nod to a proposal on it, officials said. Former DCW chief and AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal slammed the order.
Amid the suspense over Congress nominees from Amethi and Rae Bareli, sources Thursday indicated that Rahul Gandhi is likely to contest from the seat he lost last time. The sources said the party has started making preparations for the nomination filing in both the seats in Uttar Pradesh, which have been traditionally held by members of the Gandhi-Nehru family.
Heavy rains and thunderstorms lashed the UAE, leading to the cancellation of several international flights, two weeks after Dubai was hit by unprecedented storms that paralysed the emirate for days. While these rains are expected to be less severe than the unprecedented downpour that hit the country last month, the public is urged to take precautions.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Narendra Modi government of attempting to marginalise the SCs, STs, and OBCs. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi is lying about the benefits of UCC that it will help everybody. Instead, if UCC is implemented, it will put at stake the existence of SCs, STs and OBCs. BJP will destroy the constitution. But rest assured, we will not let it happen," Banerjee said.
Election Commission (EC) increased the polling time for the Lok Sabha elections in Telangana by an hour in view of heat wave conditions prevailing in the state. Polling for all 17 Lok Sabha seats in the state will be held on May 13 in the fourth round of the seven-phase elections.
The intention of the bomb hoax emails received by nearly 200 Delhi schools was to 'create mass panic and disturb public order,' the Delhi Police says in an FIR registered by its Special Cell. The person said that after receiving the calls, PCR vehicles were rushed to schools, and district police, BDS, MAC, Special Cell and Crime Control Room, DDMA, NDRF, Fire CATS and several other agencies were alerted.
Calcutta High Court expressed satisfaction with the progress of the CBI's probe into allegations of crimes against women and land grabbing in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali. Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam, along with Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, reviewed the CBI's report and granted the agency's request to keep the details confidential.
Ending weeks of speculation, the BJP named Karan Bhushan Singh as its Lok Sabha candidate from the Kaiserganj seat, replacing his father and incumbent MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is facing criminal charges of sexually harassing women wrestlers. While Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh may have been denied the ticket, the fact that the seat's contest remains within the family shows how influential the Thakur leader and six-time MP is in the region and the party.
Hundreds of helmeted police muscled their way into a central plaza of the University of California at Los Angeles in a move to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest camp attacked the previous night by pro-Israel supporters. Starting around sunset on May 1, officers in tactical gear began filing onto the UCLA campus adjacent to a complex of tents occupied by throngs of demonstrators, live footage from the scene showed.
