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New Delhi, Apr 6: The Supreme Court on Friday lifted a stay it imposed earlier on the Karnataka government's scheme to pump secondary treated water from sewage plants in Bengaluru to minor irrigation tanks in the water-starved districts of Kolar and Chikkaballapur. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the city agencies, including the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board and the

New Delhi, Apr 6: The Election Commission (EC) is learnt to have let off Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with a light rap for his "Modiji ki sena" remark, asking him to be more careful in the future. Not satisfied with the remarks, the EC is learnt to have told him that be "more careful in his utterances in future", sources said. They said the EC also told Adityanath that since he is

New Delhi, Apr 6: Taking strong objection to Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on the treatment meted out to BJP veteran L K Advani by the party, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday asked the Congress president to maintain “some decorum” in his comments. Gandhi on Friday had accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of humiliating Advani, saying disrespecting one’s guru is not Hindu culture. Addressing a

Atna, Apr 6: Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Patna Sabhi MP Shatrughan Sinha formally joined the Congress on Saturday, April 6. In a series of tweets, the two-time Lok Sabha MP and former Union Minister said, “It’s with a heavy heart and immense pain that I finally bid adieu to my old party, for reasons best known to all of us, on 6th April, which also happens to be the Sansthapna Diwas of

Bhubaneswar, Apr 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the people of Odisha will defeat both the ruling BJD and the opposition Congress in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections to be held this month. "Odisha's election results will surprise the entire country. BJP will win the polls with record number of seats. People will reject both BJD and Congress," Modi said in a Twitter post ahead

Mumbai, Apr 5: A special court here Friday granted bail to Abdul Sathak, an alleged aide of acclaimed orator Dr Zakir Naik. Abdul Sathak was arrested on charge of allegedly involving in money laundering. Special PMLA court judge M S Azmi granted bail to Sathak on a surety of Rs 5,00,000. Sathak, a jeweller, was arrested last month under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). He is accused

Mumbai, Apr 5: More than 600 theatre personalities, including Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad and Usha Ganguli, have signed a letter asking people to "vote BJP and its allies" out of power, arguing that the idea of India and its constitution are under threat. The letter, which was issued Thursday evening in 12 languages on the Artist Unite India website, said the upcoming Lok Sabha

New Delhi, Apr 5: The Delhi government on Friday told a court that the Delhi Police filed a charge-sheet in the JNU sedition case in haste and secretly without getting the sanction of the competent authority. The government also told the court that it will take one more month to decide whether to grant sanction or not in the case. The Delhi government's submission came before Chief Metropolitan

New Delhi, Apr 5: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP leader Yogi Adityanath said on Friday that Muslim League is like a "deadly virus" and the Congress party is infested with it. He further said that if Congress and the Muslim League win the election then the virus would spread across the nation. "Muslim League is a virus. The type of virus which if somebody is infested with cannot be saved and

New Delhi, Apr 5: The Supreme Court Friday expressed dissatisfaction over the replies filed by former Ranbaxy promoters Malvinder Singh and Shivinder Singh in response to its March 14 direction asking them to submit a concrete plan for paying Rs 4,000 crore to Daiichi Sankyo as directed by a Singapore tribunal. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it will now straightaway hear the