A loan of Rs 9 lakh and lust for the woman also being eyed by a colleague allegedly led an employee of the Survey of India to execute a gruesome murder of a co-worker.
Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi have expressed their support for the passage of the women’s reservation bill in India. They have also demanded the inclusion of an OBC (Other Backward Classes) sub-quota in the legislation and called for the immediate implementation of the bill without linking it to delimitation.
Escalating its crackdown on pro-Khalistan terrorists and their networks, the National Investigation Agency on Wednesday announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh each for information leading to the arrest of designated terrorists Harwinder Singh alias Rinda Sandhu and Lakhbir Singh alias Landa Harike who was associated with banned outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI).
The SC took exception to arguments by one of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case that he might have been rightly or wrongly convicted and told him that their conviction cannot be questioned.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has assured that the women’s quota law will be implemented by 2029, following the decennial census and delimitation process after the 2024 polls.
India has invited US President Joe Biden for Republic Day celebrations next year, confirmed US ambassador Eric Garcetti here on Wednesday. The last, and only, US President to participate in India’s Republic Day parade as chief guest was Barack Obama in 2015.
Pannun, who faces over 12 cases in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab and describes the slain HS Nijjar as a brother, also called for “Death to India” and “Balkanisation of India”.