By Kajol Singh / INN Live
Two days after the Cabinet passed an ordinance allowing convicted and jailed MPs and MLAs to contest elections, it has been revealed that, since 2008, merely 24 out of 4,807 MPs and MLAs have declared in their affidavits of ever being convicted in a court of law.
1,460 or 30 per cent of the MPs and MLAs have declared criminal cases against them of which 688 or 14 per cent have declared serious criminal cases.
By Rukmini Vyas / Hyderabad
Stray dogs killed and ate a three-day-old baby girl, who was abandoned or rather thrown away on the roadside by unidentified persons, at Vanasthalipuram area in Hyderabad suburbs. It is not clear if the baby was alive when abandoned but, police suspect she was.
Following the incident, the police directed all nearby hospitals and nursing homes to provide details of women, who had delivered a baby girl in the last one week, including names and addresses of their family members.
By Suman Reddy / INN Live
In a first for the Indian mainstream church, The Church of South India [CSI] is all set to consecrate Rev E Pushpa Lalitha as Bishop of its Nandyal Diocese in Andhra Pradesh on September 30.
Ordained in the Rayalaseema diocese, Rev Lalitha has served several pastorates in Nandyal besides being the Treasurer of the diocese.
By Rupali Sawant / Mumbai
Today in these columns, INN published a story captioned 'Mumbai Gangrape Accused Goes Missing From Thane Jail' which makes waves in police and jail departments and many media experts flayed the negligence. Later, this day, the news flashed stating the 'missing' accused found in jail and this entire episode is made in major confusion. As details explains us, one of the five accused in the gang-rape of a young photojournalist in Mumbai was reported 'untraceable' and later 'found', in a monumental slip-up that comes close after a terror suspect escaped from a court hearing exposing a massive security breach.
By Sunaina Yadav / INN Live
Frustration is a common mood in Indian public life. But when it follows a rare cycle of hope, it breeds a particular sort of desperation. In Lucknow, it’s hard to miss this dark mood. Talk at every home swirls around the terrible riots of Muzaffarnagar. Close on this, swirl views on Uttar Pradesh’s 40-year-old chief minister.
Back in March 2012, Akhilesh Yadav could do no wrong. His election campaign had been run pitch perfect. He seemed to embody the new order everyone was longing for: he was young; his speeches were soothing; inclusive; positive. His dream-selling was bang-on. In his latter years, the old war-horse, Mulayam Singh Yadav, had squandered a lot of political capital.
By M H Ahssan / INN Live
So whether the likes of Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya and hundreds of their parrots like it or not, the Raghuram Rajan committee has called the Narendra Modi bluff. Kerala model is no Gujarat model at all. Kerala model is simply the Kerala model and the best Gujarat model under Modi’s two terms can do is only lag way behind. In fact, at position number 12.
In fact the Rajan committee didn’t surprise anybody – Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Goa have been working at it for year.
By Rupali Sawant / Mumbai
One of the accused in the gangrape of a photojournalist at Shakti Mills in Mumbai’s Mahalaxmi area reportedly went missing from Thane jail where he was in custody. Television channels reported that Siraj ur Rahman is ‘untraceable’ from the Thane Jail.
Mumbai Police has claimed that they had handed over Rahman to Thane Jail, but the jail is saying that Rahman was never an inmate. Thane Jail has submitted a letter to the courts saying that Rahman was never present there.
By Niloufer Khan / INN Live
Reality TV show made a bold move when it showed two men in a relationship. But host Salman Khan has raised hackles by mocking and laughing at them.
When two men, cuddle, touch, communicate via expressions and are happy in each other’s company, even the simple phrase ‘Pyar Ho Gaya,’ can be transformed into a telling phrase. On reality television show Bigg Boss, host and actor Salman Khan underlined his point with emphasis on the “gay” in “gaya, to imply that two housemates, both men, are involved.
