Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 64 - Caught on Camera

Bilkis Bano case | Supreme Court to hear plea to revoke remission of 11 convicts on August 25

Petition highlights the gravity of crime

The Hindu

Reviewing remission: On the need for norms to release convicts

Supreme Court should lay down norms for release of convicts on remission

The Hindu

Arvind Kejriwal promises ten lakh jobs to youths in Gujarat, compares paper leak with Vyapam scam

RAJKOT: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal while addressing the youths in a townhall meeting in Bhavnagar on Tuesday declared the calendar of government recruitment if Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) comes to power in the upcoming assembly election in Gujarat.

The Times of India

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Release of Bilkis Bano case convicts | Wrong if they were felicitated, says Devendra Fadnavis

“An accused is an accused and there can be no justification for this,” Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis said.

The Hindu

BJP 'terrified' by AAP, going to remove its Gujarat unit chief: Arvind Kejriwal

Gujarat BJP’s media coordinator Yagnesh Dave asked Mr. Kejriwal to stop daydreaming and focus on himself instead of thinking about C.R. Patil

The Hindu

Manish Sisodia might be arrested in 2-3 days, claims Arvind Kejriwal; says BJP terrified of AAP's presence in Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that he feels that Manish Sisodia will be arrested in next two-three days. He was addressing a public meeting in Gujarat's Bhavnagar.

The Times of India

India's top court to hear petition seeking to reverse release of gang rape convicts

India's Supreme Court will hold a hearing on a petition challenging the release last week of 11 Hindu men convicted of the gang rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 in the western state of Gujarat.

Reuters

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Remission granted in Bilkis Bano Case challenged in Supreme Court

A bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana agreed to look into the matter after advocate Aparna Bhat mentioned the matter seeking an urgent listing on Wednesday. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Behind the release of Bilkis Bano’s tormentors

As women’s groups and rights’ activists raise their voice against this arbitrary remission, the decision fits neatly into the BJP’s political paradigm

The Hindu

Supreme Court may hear plea against remission in Bilkis Bano case

CJI tells counsel to file case records

The Hindu

Amid ex-servicemen agitation, Gujarat hikes compensation for slain army personnel’s kin from ₹1 lakh to ₹1 crore

500 ex-servicemen currently protesting in Gandhinagar for various demands

The Hindu

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy CM Manish Sisodia slam BJP in Gujarat

Targetting the Gujarat Govt, Arvind Kejriwal said the condition of State-run schools in the State is the testimony of 27 years of “misgovernance” of the ruling BJP

The Hindu

Drug hauls from Gujarat | ‘Ease of doing drug business’, asks Rahul Gandhi in an attack on PM Modi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s attack came days after the Anti-Narcotics Cell of Mumbai Police busted a mephedrone manufacturing unit in Gujarat and seized drugs worth ₹1,026 crore

The Hindu

Supreme Court issues notice to Gujarat Govt on activist Teesta Setalvad’s bail plea

Kapil Sibal argued that the FIR, on which Teesta Setalvad had been arrested, was a mere “recitation” of observations made by the SC judgment in the Zakia Jafri case

The Hindu

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Times of India

NZ A Series: Priyank Panchal likely to lead in 'Tests', Ajinkya Rahane to play Duleep Trophy

NEW DELHI: Gujarat opener Priyank Panchal is likely to lead India A in three four-day 'Tests' against New Zealand A, beginning in Bengaluru from September 1.

The Hindu

Lumpy skin disease in cattle spreads to over 8 States and UTs; 7,300 animals dead so far

Lumpy skin disease is a contagious viral disease that affects cattle and causes fever, nodules on the skin and can also lead to death

The Hindu

Explained | The remission laws that paved the way for release of the Bilkis Bano case convicts

Why did the Gujarat government release all 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case? What is the difference between the old policy of 1992 and the present policy of 2014?

The Hindu

Two Cabinet Ministers in Gujarat divested of Revenue and Road & Building portfolios

Rajendra Trivedi stripped off the Revenue portfolio while Purnesh Modi lost Road and Building department

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Hindu

Kejriwal, Sisodia to visit Gujarat on August 22 to 'guarantee' education and health

The CBI carried out searches at 31 places, which included premises related to Manish Sisodia in Delhi as well as some bureaucrats and businessmen, in various cities

Radio France Internationale

Gujarat riot victim 'numb' after rapists freed from prison

India’s Gujarat has set free 11 men convicted of the gang rape of a Muslim woman and the murder of her relatives during the state's 2002 riots.

The Hindu

The injustice of exceptionalism

It is the exceptionalism in granting the release of 11 individuals that lies at the core of injustice in the Bilkis Bano case

The Hindu

Some convicts in Bilkis Bano case are 'Brahmins with good sanskaar', says Gujarat BJP MLA

"We asked the jailer and learnt that their behaviour was good in the prison...also (some of the convicts) are Brahmins. They have good 'sanskaar' (values)," BJP MLA from Godhra C.K. Raulji said

The Guardian - UK

Muslim woman raped by Hindu mob shocked by release of 11 jailed men

Gujarat frees men serving life sentences for rape, and for murder of three-year-old daughter and other relatives

The Hindu

India will meet same fate as Pakistan if BJP tries to turn country into 'Hindu Rashtra': Gehlot

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said the Gujarat BJP has given "horse trading model" to the country

The Hindu

‘Are you not ashamed of such politics?’ Rahul attacks PM on BJP’s ‘support’ to rape accused

Mr. Gandhi and his Congress party have been attacking the BJP and the prime minister for releasing the rapists in the Bilkis Bano case by granting them remission.

1 … 63 64 65 66

People

Christian Schmollinger

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Bharatiya Janata Party

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.