Cockroach Janta Party leaders Ashutosh Ranka, Saurav Das and Ajinkya Shinde were detained by the Delhi Police after they “sneaked into” Jantar Mantar. They were allegedly not allowed to meet their lawyer and their phones were also confiscated.
This came a day after Jantar Mantar was denotified as a designated protest site based on recommendations from a committee constituted by the Union home ministry.
Tagging Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a social media post, Abhijeet Dipke, the political campaign’s founder, said: “You cannot denotify the resistance.” Read on.
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China described as “illegal and invalid” India’s move to give standard names to 28 places and geographical features in the Union Territory of Ladakh. “China has never recognised the so-called Union Territory of Ladakh unilaterally and illegally established by India,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning.
Responding to this, India’s Ministry of External Affairs stated that Ladakh “is an integral and inalienable part of India” and that “no amount of denial by the Chinese side can change this established fact”. Read on.
The Supreme Court stayed the trial against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case for remarks in which he referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “choron ke sardar”, or leader of thieves. Issuing notices to the Maharashtra...