Differences in BJP seem to be far from over at its national executive meeting in Mumbai today with leaders LK Advani and Sushama Swaraj set to stay away from a rally scheduled for the evening.
YP Singh, former IPS officer and practising lawyer in the Bombay high court, says it was a mistake on the part of the Mumbai police to rely on encounters as a way of curtailing crime, and that their corruption eventually led to their decline. Excerpts from an interview.
BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman today said that senior BJP leader is not attending the party rally in Mumbai because of prior engagements and is not angry or upset, reports said.
After the resignation of Sanjay Joshi, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will come face to face today at the party national executive.
Nearly nine months after the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) submitted its report to the Centre, the union environment ministry finally uploaded the report on its website late on Wednesday night.
A 29-year-old Cuffe Parade resident recently fell prey to a new telemarketing fraud in which he was conned into recharging several pre-paid SIM cards for Rs42,000 in order to claim his million-pound lottery amount, after which the money was siphoned off and the cards deactivated, the cybercrime police said.
Encounter specialists, who had become a law unto themselves in the late 1990s, were finally held to account for their actions because of a slew of petitions in courts, judicial activism and vociferous protests by human rights activists. Debasish Panigrahi reports.
With absolutely no data available on the number of firearms holders in the state, the home department has decided to create a database of all licences issued and names of firearm holders in a digital format.
A day after the US national Zohal Hamid’s lawyer confirmed that she had reached a settlement with Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) director, Siddharth Mallya and decided to withdraw the molestation case against Australian player Luke Pomersbach, HT spoke to Sahil Peerzada, the victim’s fiancé.
Notice served to caterers and stalls; move to avoid use of plastic that chokes drains.
Setting the ball rolling for the implementation of the reservation policy, the school education department on Thursday issued a notification, asking private schools to set aside 25% of their Class 1 or pre-primary seats for poor students.
The University of Mumbai is seeking feedback, particularly from students, on the year-old credit semester system as part of a review into the system.
You may soon have to pay a fire service fee for the emergency fire services provided by the Mumbai Fire Brigade under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Even as the Congress-led Maharashtra government is under pressure to make petrol more affordable to the common man, the state’s sales tax department is unwilling to reduce the value-added tax (VAT) on petrol.
The police commissioner has ordered an inquiry into how the Juhu police allowed Oakwood Premier Hotel to function for so long without several police-issued licences.