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New Delhi, June 24The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the clean chit given to Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat, and 63 others in the Gujarat riots case by a special investigation team in its 2012 report, which concluded that the riots were spontaneous and not pre-planned.Zakia JafriThe court…

Vibha SharmaNew Delhi, June 24The relationship between the two warring factions of the ruling Shiv Sena in Maharashtra appears to have reached the point of no return. Addressing a meeting of district unit chiefs, an emotional, but combative, Uddhav Thackeray today said he might have vacated ‘Varsha’, the Chief Minister’s…

New Delhi, June 24 The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the clean chit given to Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat, and 63 others in the Gujarat riots case by a special investigation team in its 2012 report, which concluded that the riots were spontaneous and not pre-planned….

Vibha Sharma New Delhi, June 24 The relationship between the two warring factions of the ruling Shiv Sena in Maharashtra appears to have reached the point of no return. Addressing a meeting of district unit chiefs, an emotional, but combative, Uddhav Thackeray today said he might have vacated ‘Varsha’,…

Hyderabad, June 24 Controversial filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma triggered another row with his tweet on NDA’s Presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu, angering the BJP which lodged police complaints against him. BJP leaders Gudur Narayana Reddy and T. Nandeshwar Goud lodged a complaint against Varma at Abids police station in Hyderabad even…

Washington, June 24 The US Supreme Court on Friday took the dramatic step of overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognised a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion and legalised it nationwide, handing a momentous victory to Republicans and religious conservatives who want to limit or ban…

Mumbai, June 24 NCP president Sharad Pawar on Friday evening met Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at the latter’s residence amid the political crisis caused by Sena leader Eknath Shinde’s rebellion. State NCP president Jayant Patil and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar accompanied Pawar as he arrived at ‘Matoshree’, Thackeray’s…

New Delhi, June 24Twitter has withheld the account of C J Werleman, a columnist who writes on Islamophobia and issues such as conflict and terrorism, at the request of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.”@cjwerleman’s account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand,” read a message…

Wayanad (Kerala), June 24 A protest march of the SFI, the students wing of ruling CPI(M), against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s office here on Friday turned violent as a group of protesters allegedly entered the Lok Sabha Member’s office and vandalised it, prompting Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to strongly condemn…

Wayanad (Kerala), June 24 A protest march of the SFI, the student wing of ruling CPI(M), against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s office here on Friday turned violent as a group of protestors allegedly entered the Lok Sabha Member’s office and vandalised it. Police said the protest march contained around 100…

New Delhi, June 24 The Central Government on Friday appointed Tapan Kumar Deka, a 1988-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, as the Director Intelligence Bureau (IB) and extended the tenure of Research and Analysis Wing (Ramp;AW) chief Samant Goel, a 1984-batch IPS officer of the…

Jupinderjit Singh Chandigarh, June 24 Singer Sidhu Moosewala’s murder conspiracy begins and ends with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi only, said ADGP Pramod Ban, chief of the Anti-Gangster Task Force of Punjab Police in an interview with The Tribune today. He was responding to a query on whether Lawrence Bishnoi was a…

Chandigarh/Jalandhar, June 24 After a three-week-long operation, the Jalandhar Rural Police have busted an extortion and arms smuggling racket affiliated to the Pinda gang with the arrest of all 13 gang members—all are trained shooters—and six others involved in harbouring and providing logistics support. This was stated by Senior Superintendent…

Mumbai, June 24 The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena suffered yet another setback as another party MLA has joined the camp of rebel legislators headed by minister Eknath Shinde in Assam. A video of MLA Dilip Lande entering the luxury hotel in Guwahati, where the party rebels have been camping for…

New Delhi, June 24 The BJP-led NDA’s nominee Droupadi Murmu on Friday filed her nomination papers for the July 18 presidential election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi handing over the set of papers to Returning Officer PC Mody. Murmu was also accompanied by Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin…