The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is reportedly verifying how close Riyaz Aboobacker, the 29-year-old youth from Palakkad, has come to carry out a suicide attack in Kerala. The NIA had claimed that it had thwarted a home-grown terror plot following his arrest on Monday. Officials privy to the contours of the probe said the agency […]
The Supreme Court asked the Election Commission to respond on the “limited question” raised by Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran on whether his faction can continue using the common symbol ‘pressure cooker’ for the upcoming elections. A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi is hearing a challenge raised by […]
With the Lok Sabha election just months away, the leaked findings of the latest National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Narendra Modi government. The NSSO data shows that labour force participation has been decliningfrom 43 per cent in 2004-05, it came down to 40 per cent […]
