DELHI RIOTS

The NCERT will use "Bharat" and "India" interchangeably in school textbooks, aligning with the Constitution's use of both names, says NCERT Director Dinesh Prasad Saklani. This follows a recommendation to prioritize "Bharat" over "India" in curricul...

Making for others can be more lucrative than building a brand for themselves — this realisation has created a brigade of small contract manufacturers who are making India’s place prominent in the global electronics manufacturing services map.

The Delhi High Court granted bail to student activist Sharjeel Imam in a 2020 communal riots case. The HC overturned a trial court order. Imam was booked for sedition and unlawful activity for speeches threatening to cut off Assam and the North East...

Additional Sessions Judge in Karkardooma Court, Sameer Bajpai rejected the second regular bail plea filed by Khalid. The second bail plea was filed by Khalid after he withdrew his plea seeking bail from the Supreme Court. He has challenged the Delhi...

The bail request of Umar Khalid, a former JNU student accused of being part of a bigger plan that led to the 2020 communal riots in northeast Delhi, was denied by a Delhi court on Tuesday. Under the strict Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA)...

Addressing a public rally in Gurdaspur, PM Narendra Modi says, "Punjab knows the true faces of the INDI alliance. Punjab has suffered the most at the hands of this INDI alliance...They gave wind to separatism in Punjab and caused a genocide of Sikhs...

North East Delhi constituency, which has the maximum concentration of Muslim voters in Delhi at 20.7%, is divided along communal lines. The epicentre of the Delhi riots of 2020 which claimed 53 lives and left 583 injured, North East Delhi is witness...

In a scathing attack on the INDIA bloc, Modi accused the parties of being "extremely communal", "extremely casteist" and "extremely nepotistic". In an apparent attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, he said in Delhi, a game of 'kattar bhrastachar...

Delhi High Court judge Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani recused himself from hearing an NGO's plea against the BBC for its documentary "India: The Modi Question" that allegedly defames Prime Minister Modi and the Indian judiciary. The plea sought Rs 10...

The Delhi High Court directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to submit written arguments supporting its claim that Tahir Hussain's plea to quash a money laundering case linked to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots was not maintainable. Justice Swarana...

Umar Khalid, a former JNU student accused in the 2020 Delhi riots case, faces intensified scrutiny as Delhi Police revealed his alleged manipulation of social media and connections with celebrities, amidst arguments opposing his bail request in cour...

A court in Delhi rejected the regular bail plea of former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 northeast Delhi riots. The court stated that the allegations against Hussain are prima facie true and that there ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi commenced the BJP's southern electoral campaign with political engagements across three states on Friday, a day prior to the Lok Sabha election announcement, aiming to enhance the party's performance in the region's five...

The acquitted are Shakil, Habib Raza, Mohd Yamin, Usman, Shahid, Mohd Furkan and Mohd Irshad. The court dubbed the testimony of a police constable as unreliable and said that even the identity of the mob behind the incidents was not established as t...

Former JNU student Umar Khalid withdrew his bail plea from the Supreme Court in a case related to the northeast Delhi riots of February 2020. The case, lodged under the anti-terror law UAPA, accused Khalid of conspiracy. Khalid, challenging the Delh...

Delhi High Court asks police to distinguish the role of student activist Sharjeel Imam from co-accused Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita, and Asif Iqbal Tanha in the UAPA case related to the 2020 communal riots. Imam seeks bail based on parity, as si...

The apex court then said in its order, "Request is made on behalf of petitioner. Request is made by learned senior counsel Kapil Sibal for accommodation as he is in a Constitution bench. Request is also made on behalf of ASG that he is busy today. L...

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand forwarded the case to the district judge so the matter could be committed to a sessions judge, noting that Tytler was accused of murder (punishable under sections 302 of IPC), an offence "ex...

​​​The 11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Salvi were granted remission by the Gujarat government, leading to their premature release from a jail in the adjoining state on August 15, 2022. This decision was challenged in the apex c...