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"A petition was filed in the Supreme Court challenging the release of 11 convicted rapists of Bilkis Bano. The petition was filed by Subhashini Ali, a member of the Communist Party of India(Marxist), journalist Revati Laul and Professor Roop Rekha Verma. In reply of this petition the Gujarat govt submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court enlisting the procedure undertaken for the remission and t...

Maharashtra Congress braces as voting for party chief begins.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to withdraw its candidate from the November 3 assembly by-election in Mumbai’ Andheri East, party’ Maharashtra state chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Monday after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena MLA from Eknath Shinde faction, Pratap Sarnaik sought unopposed el...

The ruling CPI(M) in Kerala and the Left government have claimed that family members of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his cabinet colleagues accompanied them on the trip to Europe at their own expense and not of the state.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered a severe setback in the panchayat elections in the Nagpur district of the Indian state of Maharashtra, which is considered the stronghold of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A ruling by the Gujarat Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling (GAAAR) has made a distinction between the two commonly consumed Indian bread explaining why they fall in different GST slabs, reported The Indian Express. On September 15, Gujarat’s Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling (AAAR) made a clear distinction between packed /frozen parathas and rotis.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

The Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh will take place on November 12 in a single phase for all the 68 constituencies, followed by the counting of votes on December 8, the Election Commission announced in New Delhi Friday. The model code of conduct will take effect in the state from October 17, after the notification for the elections is published.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

If you like what you saw - follow me on Instagram @mr.talkstock and on YouTube at  @Mr. TalkStock  for more such content as well as short videos, memes & collaborations Since India imports more than 80% of its crude oil - which, other than being the most expensive import item, also depletes our foreign exchange reserves & plays havoc on our fiscal deficit. The government plans to substitute part o...

After 10 days of hearing and reserving the judgement on September 22nd, the Supreme Court today gave out a split verdict in the Hijab Ban case. The bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and Sudhanshu Dhulia had a divergent opinion on the case. While Justice Hemant Gupta upheld the ban on Hijab, Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia set aside the Karnataka High Court order upholding the Hijab ban. The matter has now b...

I am being targetted by the entire Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) just because I am a Patidar, said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Gujarat Unit Chief Gopal Italia on Thursday. Italia's sensational claims came hours after he was briefly detained from NCW's office by Delhi Police earlier today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A couple in Kerala who allegedly mutilated and killed two women in a ritualistic "human sacrifice" to get rich quick may have even eaten the flesh of their victims, the police said today, as shocking new details emerged in the case.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Haryana government has ordered to completely halt the production of cough syrups at Sonipat-based company Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited. The development comes after the company was recently flagged by the World Health Organisation (WHO), in wake of the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud who is next in line to become the Chief Justice of India has often been a target of online trolling. Now ahead of his elevation for the top post in the Supreme Court, a letter by one RK Pathan has accused him of benefitting his son.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The 82-year-old was admitted to a hospital in August and was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Gurugram-based Medanta Hospital on 2 October. As we remember the veteran leader, one striking thing that comes to mind is his praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the last day of the 16th Lok Sabha. While making the valedictory speech on the last day of the 16th Lok Sabha before the 2019 g...

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has allotted the symbol of Mashal (Torch) to the Uddhav Thackeray group of Shiv Sena for the upcoming Andheri bypoll. The poll body also allowed Uddhav Thackeray group to use name 'Shiv Sena- Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray', one of the three suggestions provided by the group to the EC.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Russian barrage pounded apartment buildings and other targets in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens, officials said Sunday.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"BJP MP Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma has sparked a huge controversy by his call for a ""total boycott"" in a speech seemingly aimed at Muslims. At a public event at Dilshad Garden in North-east Delhi, Mr Verma is seen addressing supporters on what should be done to ""fix their head and set them straight"". He tells them to repeat certain pledges after him, which the people did at the open venue amid...

The Shiv Sena faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has received the 'Two swords and shield' as symbol for the upcoming by-election in Andheri (East), the Election Commission said today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slogans of “Netaji amar rahein" reverberated in the Saifai village of Western Uttar Pradesh as people from all walks of life thronged socialist leader Mulayam Singh Yadav's native village for his last rites on Tuesday. A former Chief Minister of India’s most populous state and former Defense minister of India, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s life is the perfect rag to riches story of Indian politics.  Learn...

Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit has proposed Justice D Y Chandrachud as his successor. After only 74 days as CJI, Justice Lalit will step down on November 8, 2022. In August of this year, when he succeeded Justice NV Ramana, he assumed leadership.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nirmala Sitharaman, a senior BJP leader and Union Finance Minister, spent a busy day in Chennai, Tamil Nadu's capital, from morning to night on Saturday. Nirmala, who had completed all of her programmes on time, stopped at the Mylapore market in the night city. She spoke to the vegetable traders at the market on this occasion. They inquired about the difficulties they were experiencing  Learn more...

Tamil film director Vetrimaaran has sparked a controversy by speaking about Emperor Raja Raja Cholan's religious identity. According to the director, the famed ruler was not a Hindu Emperor. Vetrimaaran's comments have come just days after the release of filmmaker Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan: Part One, which is based on Kalki’s fictional Tamil novel inspired by the Tamil emperor Raja...

The fight for power over Shiv Sena, which started in Maharashtra, is at an important stage. The Election Commission of India has frozen the party's name and election symbol 'Dhanush-Baan'. In this case Uddhav Thackeray and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde now have the option of choosing a new name and symbol. However, if you look at the electoral history of Shiv Sena, which is more than 5 decades old,...

In an interim order passed late on Saturday (October 8) evening, the Election Commission of India (ECI) froze the well known ‘bow and arrow’ election symbol of the Shiv Sena until the competing claims for recognition by the two rival factions is decided. This had been done “in order to place both the rival groups on even keel and to protect their rights and interests, and going by the past precede...

"At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured after a bus caught fire in Maharashtra's Nashik early this morning, officials have said. The bus caught fire after hitting a trailer truck transporting diesel on the Nashik-Aurangabad highway, they added.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices