Month: April 2025

[ad_1] Mamata Banerjee visits Kalighat Kali Temple after the inauguration of ‘Kalighat Skywalk’ on the eve of ‘Poila Baisakh’ in Kolkata on Monday DHULIYAN: Traders in Bengal have a tradition of opening new "haalkhatas" (ledgers) on Poila Baisakh, marking the advent of the Bengali New Year. In violence-ravaged Murshidabad, the spirit of celebration was replaced Tuesday by the silence of a broken community.Nemai Ghosh, a resident of Aurangabad in Suti, opened his outlet Janapriya Sweets but had few customers. Shards of glass and remnants of a damaged shutter littered the storefront.On Poila Baisakh, the store usually has a queue of customers waiting to buy rosogollas and shingaras (Bengali version of samosa)."We had received bulk orders and I was worried whether I could deliver on time. My workers arrived last night and we opened the store, but sales were nothing compared […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: As Supreme Court readies to hear on Wednesday a bunch of petitions challenging Waqf Amendment Act, a petition by advocate Hari Shankar Jain sought scrapping of several provisions of waqf Act, 1995 and recent amendments alleging their use as tools by waqfs to illegally amass immoveable properties across India, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.In his petition, Jain, who is in the forefront of litigation for restoration of Gyanvapi mosque at Varanasi and Idgah at Mathura to Kashi Vishwanath temple and Krishna Janmasthan temple, challenged as many as six section of the waqf Act alleging that because of these provisions "Muslims have been able to illegally capture the properties belonging to public utilities, govt, gram samajs and Hindu temples."For the petitioner, advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain repeatedly pleaded before a bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar for hearing […]

[ad_1] Congress chief Kharge with Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav PATNA/NEW DELHI: Congress and RJD decided to fix a timeline to clinch the nitty gritties of electoral alliance early, with the leadership of the two parties kickstarting the talks for Bihar polls on Monday.RJD neta Tejashwi Yadav, accompanied by MPs Manoj Jha and Sanjay Yadav, visited Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for discussions that included Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal and Gurdeep Sappal.The allies will meet again in Patna Thursday, where, sources said, they are likely to fix the schedule for finalising the seat-sharing formula, campaign plan and manifesto points. Well-placed sources said the parties expressed concern that delay in seat sharing not only puts electioneering on hold, but also embitters the cadres and hurts coordination. The focus of the 2025 polls is likely to be on joint […]

[ad_1] NAGPUR: The Nagpur municipal commissioner offered Tuesday an unconditional apology to Bombay high court's Nagpur bench for demolishing the home of riot accused Fahim Khan without adhering to Supreme Court-mandated procedures, reports Vaibhav Ganjapure.In an affidavit, municipal commissioner Abhijeet Chaudhari acknowledged that civic officials from the town planning and slum departments were unaware of SC's Nov 13, 2024 order that requires procedural safeguards before demolishing properties linked to suspects in communal violence.The court was hearing petitions from Fahim's mother, 69-year-old Mehrunissa, and 96-year-old Abdul Hafiz, whose relative was also named in the March 17 riots in the city's Mahal area. Fahim's house near Raza Masjid in Sanjay Bagh Colony had been razed by the time the high court took up the matter, while Hafiz's home was partially demolished. T he HC halted further demolition on March 25, ruling that […]