Congress wants Rahul Gandhi to be the face of anti-BJP alliance
The extended Congress Working Committee on July 22 authorised Congress president Rahul Gandhi to forge an alliance with like-minded parties for the 2019 Lok Sabha election to take on the BJP. The decision was taken at a meeting of the newly-constituted CWC, Pradesh Congress Committee chiefs and Congress Legislature Party members from various States.
Three militants killed in encounter in Kulgam
Security forces killed three militants in an operation in south Kashmir's Kulgam on Sunday morning. The militants were believed to be behind the abduction and killing of a policeman on Saturday.
40% deficit rainfall in eastern India: IMD data
With the four-month rainy season almost half over, the rainfall deficiency in the eastern part of India, especially in Bihar and Jharkhand, has crossed the 40% mark, while a quarter of the country has received deficient rainfall, the India Meteorological Department data shows. Bihar has recorded the highest monsoon deficiency of 48%, while eastern Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand have recorded 46% and 42% respectively.
Rahul can hug PM, people will not hug him in 2019: BJP
The BJP on Sunday took a dig at Rahul Gandhi, saying the Congress president might forcibly hug Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but the people of the country would not embrace him in next year’s Lok Sabha election.
‘Administrative laxity’ should not delay reporting of detention of a person under NSA: SC
Administrative laxity should not be the reason for delaying the news of detention of a person under the National Security Act to the State government concerned, the Supreme Court has held. A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud said “any delay between the date of detention and the date of submitting the report to the State Government, must be due to unavoidable circumstances beyond the control of the detaining authority and not because of administrative laxity”.
Govt cuts GST rates with eye on assembly polls: Chidambaram
A day after the Goods and Services tax (GST) Council brought down GST rates of several items of mass use, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram questioned why it wasn’t done earlier and linked it to the next round Assembly polls.
SC to hear woman who wants to book husband under Section 377 IPC
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a woman who wants to book her husband under Section 377 IPC for forcing her to perform oral sex on him. A Bench led by Justice N.V. Ramana will consider the question raised by the woman, who was a child bride, as to whether non-consensual oral sex amounted to an “unnatural offence” under the Section 377 IPC.
Under-construction building collapses in Ghaziabad
An under-construction building collapsed in Dasna area of Ghaziabad on Sunday afternoon. Five labourers have been rescued safely while eight people are still trapped, a police official said.
Casualties after blast near Kabul airport following VP Dostum's arrival: officials
An explosion near Kabul's international airport injured several people on Sunday, officials said, shortly after Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum returned to the country after more than a year in exile. Scores of senior government officials, political leaders and supporters had gathered at the airport to greet the powerful ethnic Uzbek leader and former warlord, clad in a Western suit and sunglasses.
Gunmen in South Africa ambush taxi drivers; 11 killed
South African police say gunmen have opened fire on a minibus carrying members of a taxi drivers’ association, killing 11 people and critically wounding four others.
