Thiruvananthapuram, May 26 (IANS) Kerala BJP MLAs on Tuesday wrote to Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan demanding an immediate CBI probe into the alleged Sabarimala gold scam and the unconditional withdrawal of all cases registered against devotees during the Sabarimala agitation. BJP MLA V. Muraleedharan alleged that despite Satheesan publicly demanding a CBI investigation into the case during his tenure as Opposition Leader, no announcement has been made even after two Cabinet meetings under the n…
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Amaravati, May 26 (IANS) Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has accused Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of once again neglecting the case of Sugali Preeti, a 10th class student who was allegedly raped and murdered at a private school in Kurnool in 2017. The YSR Congress Party president said that the negligence of Chandrababu Naidu’s government in the Sugali Preeti case is causing immense anguish to her parents.In 2017, Sugali Preeti, an innocent Class 10 student, …
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) ‘She is no more’. These were the words of Twisha’s mother-in-law to the former actor-model’s sister-in-law, Rashi, which broke the news about her death to her kin on the evening of May 12, notes the CBI FIR registered in the case. The four words changed Twisha’s parents’ lives forever.In just 54 minutes – between 9.41 pm when Twisha spoke to her mother on a WhatsApp call and 10.35 pm when the victim’s mother-in-law, Giribala Singh, told Rashi about her deat…
Chandigarh, May 26 (IANS) Dera Sacha Sauda head, Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who is lodged in Sunaria Jail in Haryana’s Rohtak serving sentences for raping two female followers, was granted a 30-day parole, the 16th release from the prison since his conviction of 20 years in 2017.He was granted a 40-day parole each in January this year and in August 2025, followed by a 21-day furlough in April 2025 and a 30-day parole in January 2025 ahead of the February 5 Delhi Assembly elections and several other paro…
Jaipur, May 25 (IANS) Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Monday criticised the government over rising fuel prices, inflation, the NEET paper leak controversy, and issues related to governance and foreign policy, alleging that the government is prioritising politics over public welfare. He said the opposition would stage a statewide agitation to raise concerns about inflation, unemployment, and governance issues.The pilot said that since the election results were declared, petrol and diesel prices h…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) A Delhi court on Monday extended the CBI custody of Army officer Colonel Himanshu Bali by five days in connection with a bribery case involving the alleged payment of Rs 50 lakh for manipulating defence tenders and clearing false bills. Colonel Bali was produced before the Rouse Avenue Court after the expiry of his earlier five-day custody granted to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).Allowing the agency’s plea, the court extended his custodial interrogation by …
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) As the Supreme Court heard the case related to the death of former actor-model Twisha Sharma, her family’s lawyer Anurag Srivastava on Monday said the apex court’s intervention has brought great satisfaction to the family, which had earlier struggled to get its concerns heard. Speaking to IANS, Advocate Srivastava said: “It was a very sensitive matter. There was a time when no one was listening to Twisha’s family, and they were running from place to place. This is a …
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday said that the suspected dowry death case of model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma must be investigated in a “fair, independent and unbiased” manner and urged both sides to refrain from making public statements capable of influencing the ongoing probe. A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant, while hearing the suo motu case registered over allegations of institutional bias and procedural discrepancies in the investigation, said…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre, the National Testing Agency (NTA) and other authorities on pleas seeking structural reforms in the conduct of the NEET-UG examination, including an immediate transition to a computer-based testing (CBT) mode in the wake of the alleged 2026 paper leak controversy. A Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe directed that copies of the petitions be served upon Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, the Centre’s se…
Bhopal, May 24 (IANS) Alleged dowry death victim Twisha Sharma’s accused husband Samarth Singh’s advocate Gyanendra Sharma maintained that the defence has no objections to an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or the second post-mortem examination that was conducted by a team of doctors from AIIMS Delhi on Sunday.Talking to IANS, Gyanendra Sharma said: “We are in favour of a fair and proper investigation. If anyone has any doubts, even the family members — mother, father…