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India or Bharat? A dinner invite sparks speculation as Modi’s ministers push to rebrand the country

NEW DELHI (AP) — It began with a dinner invitation. How it ends could affect more than a billion people. State-issued invites sent to guests of this week’s G20 meeting referred to India’s president, Droupadi Murmu, as “President of Bharat.” Suddenly, in many circles, the question was everywhere: Would the country of more than 1.4 billion now be called by its ancient Sanskrit name? Since then, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s ministers, his Hindu nationalist supporters, Bollywood stars and cricketers have made similar public proclamations: India should officially be rebranded as Bharat. India is known by two names: India, used

Not inviting Opposition leaders to G20 reflects govt doesn’t value leaders of 60 per cent of India’s population: Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi, Sep 8 (PTI): Taking a dig at the government for not inviting Opposition leaders to the G20, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said it shows that the current leadership doesn’t value the leaders of 60 per cent of India’s population and the people should think about it. Congress Party chief and the leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Kharge has not been invited to the G20 gala dinner being hosted by President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday, media reports said. Interacting with the media at Brussels Press Club in Brussels, Gandhi said the government’s action tells about

HC quashes two phone tapping cases filed against IPS officer Rashmi Shukla

IPS officer Rashmi Shukla

Mumbai, Sep 08 (PTI): In a relief to senior IPS officer and Maharashtra’s former intelligence chief Rashmi Shukla, the Bombay High Court on Friday quashed two FIRs registered against her for alleged illegal phone tapping. Two first information reports (FIRs) were filed against Shukla – one in Pune and another at Colaba in south Mumbai – for allegedly illegally tapping the phones of opposition leaders when Devendra Fadnavis was the chief minister of the state. The FIRs were registered when the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government was in power. On Friday, Shukla’s counsel Mahesh Jethmalani informed the high

Courts need not show compassion when contemnors use them as legal trick to wriggle out of responsibility: SC

Supreme Court (SC)

New Delhi, Sep 08 (PTI): Observing that a lenient attitude shown by judicial institutions has emboldened unscrupulous litigants to disobey or commit a breach of an order with impunity, the Supreme Court has said courts need not show compassion when contemnors use them as a ”potent weapon” and ”legal trick” to wriggle out of responsibility. The observation came while the top court was adjudicating a case from the Gujarat High Court, which sentenced five people under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 for their deliberate and wilful disobedience of an undertaking given to it in 2015 in a property dispute.

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