Amid delay in the announcement of a chief minister for Rajasthan, state Congress chief Sachin Pilot on Thursday said he has full faith in the Congress leadership and made a fervent appeal to his party workers to maintain peace and ensure discipline.
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The Congress on Thursday night named veteran leader Kamal Nath as Madhya Pradesh’s next chief minister after hours of hectic parleys held by the party chief Rahul Gandhi with senior party leaders in the national capital amid a debate on the old versus the new guard.
The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a plea seeking directions for immediate execution of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, saying, “you want us to go around Delhi and execute these people?”
The Supreme Court Thursday issued notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on a plea seeking annulment of his election to the state assembly for alleged non-disclosure of pending criminal cases against him in the nomination papers.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday said it appeared convicts were being granted premature release on “whims and fancies” of the Sentence Review Board (SRB) and observed “transparency” has to be ensured in the process.
A 55-year-old man, said to be an Ayyappa devotee, attempted self-immolation near the protest venue of the BJP in front of the Secretariat here early Thursday.
The 14-day session of the Kerala Assembly ended Thursday on a tumultuous note with ruling LDF members protesting the “communal wall” remark made by an Opposition MLA against the proposed “Wall of Women” initiative, resulting in a minor scuffle between members.
K Chandrashekar Rao, who steered his party TRS to a thumping victory in Telangana, took over the reins of India’s newest state for a second straight term Thursday.
The mood in the Indian camp was summed up best by theĀ skipper after a green pitch was
unveiled on eve of the maidenĀ Test at the new facility.