New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging a 1980 notification of the Delhi Waqf Board declaring certain mosques in Jahangirpuri as Waqf properties, observing that the petition sought to “unnecessarily rake up the past” after a lapse of 46 years and was not filed with bona fide intent.A Bench of Chief Justice (CJ) Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia refused to entertain the plea filed by Save India Foundation, which…
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New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Pawan Khera on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Centre over the interim India-US trade framework, alleging that the agreement severely harms Indian farmers by opening the door to cheaper agricultural imports from America. He claimed that even Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, does not know what is in the deal. Khera is in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh to participate in a protest against the India-US trade deal. Speaking to I…
Ranchi, Feb 19 (IANS) The Jharkhand Police on Thursday detained former state minister and senior Congress leader Yogendra Sao and his wife, former MLA Nirmala Devi, during a protest against the NTPC’s Chatti Bariatu coal mining project in Hazaribagh district.They were detained at the project site in the Keredari police station area, where the couple had been leading an agitation along with local villagers over issues related to land acquisition and compensation.According to police officials, mul…