Jawaharlal Nehru – Bhartiyanews24x7

11Sep

By source belowNo Comments

Centre appoints six more additional SGs for SC | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: For the first time, the Union govt will have full strength of 13 law officers to represent it in the Supreme Court with the appointment of six new faces, senior advocates drawn from various states and some having domain expertise, as additional solicitors general (ASGs).In addition to existing ASGs – S V Raju, N Venkataraman, K M Natraj, Aishwarya Bhati and Vikramjit Banerjee, the appointments committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved appointment of senior advocates S Dwarkanath, Archana P Dave, Satya Darshi Sanjay, Brijender Chahar, Raghvendra P Shankar and Rajkumar B Thakare (Raja Thakare) as ASGs for the SC.With the addition of six more the strength of ASGs will increase to 11, in addition to top law officers in attorney general R Venkataramani and solicitor general Tushar ...

3Sep

By source belowNo Comments

Politics

Narayan Rane Says ‘Shivaji Looted Surat’, Counters Fadnavis’ ‘Shivaji Never Looted Surat’ Remar

Senior BJP leader and former Union minister Narayan Rane on Monday waded into the ongoing controversy surrounding the Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, stating that the revered warrior had indeed looted Surat. Rane’s remarks were made during a media interaction at the BJP headquarters in Mumbai, responding to a question about historical accounts. "I am not a historian," Rane said, "But from whatever I have read, heard, and known from historian Babasaheb Purandare, 'Shivaji Maharaj ni Surat la loot keli' (Shivaji Maharaj had looted Surat)", as quoted by Indian Express Rane’s statement came just a day after Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis criticised Congress for spreading what he termed as "false propaganda" against Shivaji. Fadnavis had asserted, "Chhatrapati Shi...

23Aug

By source belowNo Comments

Culture

Mood of the Nation poll: Modi holds steady, Rahul emerges

Only three Indian prime ministers have scaled Mount 3.0—the rarefied pinnacle of a third term in office. The former two, Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi, encountered major turbulence during their third stints and failed to complete their full terms. Nehru erred seriously at the start of his third term when the Indian armed forces suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of China in the 1962 border war. His persona and credibility considerably diminished, Nehru died of a heart attack in 1964, three years before his term was to end. Unlike him, Indira did not win a third consecutive term; she was defeated in the 1977 general election after completing two terms, the second term blackened by her imposition of the Emergency in 1975. However, she stormed back to power in 1980 a...