Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu can contest future elections despite the Supreme Court sentencing him to one-year jail in a 1988 road rage case, a legal expert said on Thursday, citing provisions of the electoral law. “If the sentence was two years or more, then he would have been disqualified
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Gripped by a severe economic crisis, Sri Lanka, a major player in the global tea market, has not been able to export tea, creating an opportunity for the Indian tea industry to tap the market. The tea traders of North Bengal said that the present condition in Sri Lanka, which
The police in western Assam’s Goalpara district have arrested a teacher of a government school for allegedly carrying beef to school. Dalima Nessa, the arrested teacher, is the headmistress of the Hurkachungi Middle English School in the district’s Lakhipur area. She was questioned by the police and arrested after a
Supreme Court has allowed the review plea filed by the family of the deceased who was killed during an alleged brawl with cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in 1988. If convicted, Navjot Sidhu faces a one-year jail term.
The flood situation in Assam further deteriorated on Wednesday with one more person dead in Darrang district, the toll rose to nine in the current pre-monsoon floods and landslides in Assam as more than 6.62 lakh people have been affected in 27 of the state’s 34 districts, officials said. According