Moments after the four accused in the Hyderabad veterinarian's rape and murder case were shot dead, 'Nirbhaya's' mother Asha Singh speaking to the media said that she was extremely happy with the punishment and demanded that her daughter's culprits must also be hanged at the earliest.

“Police has done a great job and I demand that no action should be taken against the police personnel. I have been running from pillar to post for the last 7 years. I appeal to the justice system of this country and the government, that Nirbhaya's culprits must be hanged to death, at the earliest,” she added.  

"Now rapists would think twice before committing a crime, they would now fear getting killed in a police encounter," said activist Trupti Desai, who added that the killing of the accused will set a good example. 

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said, "When a criminal tries to escape, police are left with no other option, it can be said that justice has been done."

The action of Telangana police has been lauded by politicians and public alike with many saying that swift justice will be a deterrent for further atrocities on women.

RJD’s Rabri Devi said, "What happened in Hyderabad would act as a deterrent against criminals surely, we welcome this. In Bihar as well, cases of crimes against women are increasing. The state Govt here is lax and doing nothing."

Baba Ramdev said that police had done was very courageous. "I must say that justice has been delivered. Legal questions over it are a different matter, but I am sure people of the country are at peace now," he added.

All four accused in Hyderabad veterinarian's rape and murder case were killed in an encounter at 3:30 am on Friday, the Cyberabad police said.

Rahul Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at Narendra Modi led BJP government for its economic policies which were leading India into 'trouble'. Gandhi further accused the duo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah of 'living in their own imagination' and having no contact with the outside world. 

Gandhi was speaking on during the day one of his three-day visit to his Parliamentary constituency Waynad where he stated that the imaginary world created by Modi was falling apart. 

The Congress leader was responding to a query on the government's claim that there was no financial crisis in the country.

"Mr Amit Shah and Mr Narendra Modi live in their own imagination. They have no contact with the outside world. They live in their own world and they fantasise about things. That is why the country is in such trouble," Gandhi told the media.

In fact, if Narendra Modi listens to the people of the country there wouldn't be any problem, he added.

He accused  Modi of distracting people from reality through his gimmicks and said that it has become a regular thing for the BJP government. 

"Because he lives in an imaginary world. He wants India to live in an imaginary world. Now that is breaking... he is in trouble," Gandhi said.

Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram has been granted bail by the Supreme Court in the INX Media money laundering case. Chidambaram was arrested on August 21st after Enforcement Directorate filed a case against him. 

The court, while granting bail to Chidambaram ordered him to not tamper with the evidence or influence the witness. The court has also barred him from giving any interviews or issuing public statements of any kind in relation to the case.

 Chidambaram has been released after he furnished a bail bond of Rs 2 lakhs along with 2 sureties of the same amount. The apex court also has ordered the senior Congress leader to not travel abroad without its permission.

The court directed P Chidambaram to furnish a bail bond of Rs 2 lakhs along with 2 sureties of the same amount and said he could not travel abroad without the Court's permission.

The case was heard by a bench of justices R Banumathi, AS Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy. Chidambaram has been in custody for 105 days since his dramatic arrest televised live by a team of Central Bureau of Investigation officers late on August 21.

First arrested by CBI in the money laundering case of August 21, the top court granted him bail on October 22. The CBI was investigating Chidambaram in a case relating to alleged irregularities in Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance granted to the INX Media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs. 305 crore in 2007, during his tenure as the finance minister.

Congress' leader in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah were also migrants as their home was in Gujarat while they lived in Delhi. 

"I can say that Narendra Modi and Amit Shah Ji are themselves the migrants. Their homes are in Gujarat but they have come to Delhi," Chowdhury told ANI.

"India is for everyone -- for Hindus, for Muslims and for everyone else. They are creating the fear that they will throw out Muslims. They do not have the capability to do that. But what they want to show is Hindus will be allowed to stay, while Muslims will be sent away," he added while speaking against the Citizenship Amendment Bill.

The statement Chowdhury comes at a time when Home Minister Amit Shah is in discussions over the bill with members of political parties and civil society organisations from the North-Eastern states.

The Union Home Minister met them on Friday and Saturday while the third meeting is scheduled for December 3.

Stating the purpose of the bill, Amit Shah had earlier said that it was needed to ensure that the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Christian and Parsi refugees who were being discriminated on the basis of their religion in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan can obtain India citizenship.

The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016, was passed in the Lok Sabha on January 8 this year, aimed at granting citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, who came to India before December 31, 2014.

Meanwhile Chowdhury also suggested Shah to learn a bit more about the Indian migrants across the world who were contributing to the national economy.

"It is because of the issue of Citizenship Bill that they have been swept away in West Bengal (assembly by-elections). If they continue with it, they will be swept away from the rest of India too," 

On the occasion of Narendra Modi government completing six months in power, the government has announced that it is planning to invest Rs 100 lakh crores (USD 1.39 trillion) in various infrastructure projects. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the government was making the move in a bid to provide a push to the economy. 

"A set of officers are looking into the pipeline of projects that can be readied so that once the fund is ready, it could be front-loaded on these projects," Sitharaman said at a business summit in Mumbai.

"That task is nearly completed. Before December 15, we will be able to announce frontloading of at least ten projects," she added.

Narendra Modi's government has come under sharp criticism of late for the economic slowdown where the growth rate has seen a major slump. 

PM Modi won a second term in May and has taken various measures since 2014 to spur growth, including cutting the corporate tax and speeding up privatisation of state-run firms.

But several economic indicators show domestic consumption is weak, and many economists expect the current slowdown could persist for another two years.

Two days after being sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackrey will be facing a trust vote in the Assembly on Saturday.

Thackrey, who us heading the Maha Vikas Aghadi- an alliance between Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress will have to prove that he has the required number of 145, which his camp claims will be done easily. 

Dilip Walse Patil has been named the pro term speaker and will be conducting the floor test and he will also have a tie-breaker vote in the unlikely case of both the groups having the same number of votes.

Ahead of the trust vote, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut expressed confidence of the alliance winning the floor test. Taking to Twitter, he claimed that the Maha Vikash Agadhi had the support of over 170 MLAs.

"Today is the day to prove majority... 170 +++++...," he tweeted.

As per the assembly results, the Shiv Sena has 56 MLAs, NCP has 54 and Congress has 44 in the 288-member state assembly.

Controversial BJP MP Pragya Thakur has been dropped from the Parliamentary Panel on Defence after she claimed that Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse was a 'Deshbhakt'.

Apart from being dropped from the Consultative Committee on Defence in which she was appointed just 8 days back, Thakur has now also been barred from attending BJP Parliamentary meetings as well. 

The party has strongly condemned the remarks made by Pragya and after a huge uproar in the Parliament as well as the media, BJP President JP Nadda recommended her removal from the committee. According to the sources, Nadda is also mulling expelling her and cancelling her membership from BJP

It all started when on Wednesday, during a Lok Sabha discussion on the Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, DMK member A Raja cited a statement by Godse on why he killed Mahatma Gandhi. Pragya Thakur interrupted him; she said he couldn't give the example "of a deshbhakt".

Opposition members protested her interruption, and BJP members asked her to sit down.

Speaker Om Birla, strongly objecting to Pragya's remarks said that said only Raja's statement would go on record.

This is not the first time that the MP from Bhopal has sung praises of Godse. Earlier this year, Pragya during a public meeting also made similar remarks which were heavily criticised. 

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday launched its Earth imaging and mapping satellite CARTOSAT-3 along with 13 other nano-satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.

The agency had planned for the launch of CARTOSAT-3 satellite, ninth in the series, from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota, about 120 kms at 09.28am.

PSLV-C47 on its 49th mission would carry CARTOSAT-3 along with 13 commercial nano satellites from the United States. CARTOSAT-3 is a third generation agile advanced satellite having high resolution imaging capability.

Taking to Twitter, ISRO announced the 16-hour countdown to the launch of the satellites and said, "PSLV-C47 standing tall at the launch pad in Sriharikota. Less than 16 hours for launch. Stay tuned ...

The space organisation continuously updated on the preparations for the launch of the CARTOSAT-3 and other satellites.

Seeking to bring an end to the ongoing political confusion in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the floor test in the assembly to be conducted by 5 PM on Wednesday, 27th November. The court further directed that no secret will be used and that the proceedings must be handled by a pro- term speaker which should be telecasted live. 

"There exists a dispute in the role of the judiciary. Institutional comity must exist without judicial interference…. At this interim stage, parties must maintain constitutional morality," ruled a three-judge bench.

Citing the Uttarakhand ruling and Jagdambika Pal case in which the then governor of UP had sacked Kalyan Singh as the CM and made Jagdambika Pal of Congress as his successor. If more than one person stakes claim to form the government and the majority is not clear, the Governor may call a session to see who has the majority, cited the SC. 

The court was delivering its order after Shiv Sena- NCP and Congress filed a petition after Devendra Fadnavis claiming the support took oath as the CM of Maharashtra with NCP's Ajit Pawar as his deputy.

On Monday, the Centre argued that Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari invited Devendra Fadnavis to form government based on a letter showing the support of 170 MLAs, including all 54 of the NCP of Ajit Pawar, who was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister.

The alliance of NCP-Congress and Shiv Sena on Monday submitted a letter claiming the majority in the state to form the government. The leaders of the three parties also stated that the present government of BJP doesn't have the required numbers to form the government. 

The move comes amidst an ongoing hearing in the Supreme Court over the current political situation in the state, 

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta during the SC hearing said, ''Shiv Sena has 56, NCP -- 54 and INC -- 44 seats. There was talk about horse-trading but Guv possibly felt that the entire stable is stolen. I'm seeking time to file reply as there are questions that need to be discussed.''

The three-party alliance has been asserting that they have the numbers to form a government in Maharashtra. The apex court is likely to take a call on a floor test in Maharashtra.

The Supreme Court earlier on Sunday had asked the Centre to produce the letters from CM Devendra Fadnavis proving his majority and also the letter from Governor which invited him to form the Government.

The political drama in Maharasghtra took a major twist aftre Devendra Fadnavis took oath as Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Ajit Pawar as his deputy. The move came just hours after NCP-Shiv Sena-Congress had sealed a deal to form the government in the state naming Uddhav Thackrey as their Chief Minister.

Devendra Fadnavis' oath-taking ceremony in the early hours of Saturday has shocked not just opposition but even some of BJP supporters. With NCP and Congress supporting Shiv Sena in forming the government, it was decided last night and NCP chief Sharad Pawar even confirmed the development by naming Uddhav Thackrey as the next CM of Maharashtra.

However, the story changed entirely overnight with Sharad Pawar' nephew Ajit Pawar supporting Fadnavis and enabling the latter to become second-time CM of the state. 

This development has not gone down with some NCP leaders with cousin Supriya Sule expressing disappointment with Ajit's move. 

Supriya had put up a WhatsApp status that pointed at a major rift within the Pawar family and the NCP.

The status read, “Party and family split”, and was put up soon after the BJP turned tables on rivals with a faction of NCP breaking away under Ajit Pawar — Sule’s cousin and Sharad Pawar's nephew.

In another status that followed soon after, she wrote: “Who do you trust in life...never felt so cheated in my life... defended him, loved him...look what I get in return."

The development brought a major twist in the Maharashtra political scenario as a day earlier it was senior Pawar who had announced that the new Maharashtra government would be led by Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced in Parliament on Wednesday that the National Register of Citizen will be a pan India process. Shah further added that there will be no discrimination on the basis of religion in this process. 

"The process of National Register of Citizens will be carried out across the country. No one irrespective of their religion should be worried. It is just a process to get everyone under the NRC," he said while answering a question in Rajya Sabha. 

Speaking of the NRC exercise in Assam, Shah said that the people whose names have not featured in the drafts list have an option of going to Foreigners Tribunals. "Tribunals will be constituted across Assam. If any person doesn’t have the money to approach tribunals, then the Assam government will bear the cost to hire a lawyer," he said.

The decision of a nationwide NRC has drawn sharp criticism from the likes of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. "A total of 19 lakh people have been left out of the Assam NRC list. Those omitted include Hindus, Bengalis, Muslims, Gorkhas and Buddhists. They have been sent to detention centres. In West Bengal, we (TMC) will never allow any detention centre," she said, assuring people that she will never allow such a citizens’ register in the state.

She added the NRC in Assam was part of the Assam Accord signed during the tenure of former PM Rajiv Gandhi and that the exercise can never be implemented across India.

Shah told the Rajya Sabha that though the Centre accepts that refugees — Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Christians, Sikhs and Parsis — who left Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan due to religious atrocities should get Indian citizenship, he added that all citizens of India irrespective of religion will figure in the NRC list. "There is no provision in the NRC that people belonging to other religions will not be included in the register," he added.