Is Taj Mahal actually...

Singh stated that there are 22 rooms situated in the upper and lower portion of the four storied building of Taj Mahal that are permanently locked and historians like PN Oak and many Hindu worshippers believe that in those rooms lies the temple of Shiva.

“It is respectfully submitted that since Taj Mahal is the ancient monument, and crores of money is being invested for the preservation of the monument, the correct and complete historical facts about the monument should be disclosed to the public.”

Misuse no plea to...

“The remedy would lie in preventing such abuse on a caseto-case basis rather than doubting a long standing settled law declared by a constitution bench since about six decades,” the written note said.

The Supreme Court is slated to hear on May 10, arguments on whether the petitions challenging validity of sedition under Section 124A have to be referred to a Constitution bench.

Attorney General (AG) KK Venugopal had earlier defended before the Supreme Court the Constitutional validity of Section 124A and the 1962 judgment of the top court in Kedar Nath Singh v. State of Bihar. Venugopal said that the judgment in Kedar Nath Singh upholding the validity of Section 124A is a well-thought out one and needs to be upheld. The court is hearing a batch petitions challenging the constitutionality of Section 124A. The Supreme Court had, while issuing notice in the matter in July 2021, questioned the Central government on whether the law was needed 75 years after independence.

The court had also sought

the assistance of the Attorney General in the matter. The Central government is yet to file its response to the plea.

LPG crosses...

LPG price was last hiked by Rs 50 on March 22, which means that in 45 days, the cost of a cylinder has increased by Rs 100. With six hikes in the past year, domestic LPG prices have jumped by nearly Rs 200 in 12 months, points out TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar. The TMC even conducted a mock workshop on making a clay oven. The reasoning is that the price spiral will force people to go back to the clay oven for cooking food. On May 1, the price of a 19-kg commercial LPG cylinder was increased by Rs 102.50, to Rs 2355.50.

The Congress party, too, slammed the government on the hike with former party chief Rahul Gandhi saying millions of Indian households are waging a difficult battle against “extreme inflation”, unemployment and “poor governance”. He said the central government should roll back the LPG hike and bring it to the same level as in 2014. Gandhi said during the Congress-led UPA government, the price of an LPG cylinder was Rs 414 and a subsidy of Rs 827 was being given on every cylinder. “Today, the cost of a

cylinder is Rs. 999. The amount of subsidy being given is ‘zero’,” he asserted. The Narendra Modi government has removed all safety nets that the Congress had put in place to protect the common man, Gandhi alleged. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said in a tweet in Hindi, “BJP is rich, people are helpless. The price of subsidized LPG cylinder has increased two and a half times under the BJP rule. LPG cylinder is now out of reach of the middle class and the poor.” Congress spokesperson Pawan

Khera also took a dig at the government over inflation by garlanding two gas cylinders and lighting incense sticks in front of vegetables at the party headquarters here. He said this was a condolence meeting for the gas cylinder. “Sahib (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) increased the price of a gas cylinder by Rs 50 as soon as he came back from a foreign tour. Once Modi ji had put up huge hoardings and said that surrender the subsidy. Seeing these conditions today, it seems that the cylinder itself should be surrendered,” Khera told reporters. “Our demand is to give some relief to the country. Take back the hike and bring prices to the level of 2014 prices. The country is begging for relief,” he said. Sulakshana Sawant, wife Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, repeated her husband’s pet phrase, ‘Bhivpachi garaz na’ (there’s no need to worry), when asked to comment on rising prices of fuel, domestic gas cylinders and milk in the state.

Bagga secures midnight hearing

connection with Rs 40.92 crore loan fraud case registered against a company in which Singh was a director. According to reports, the CBI said that about Rs 16.57 lakh, around 88 foreign currency notes, property documents, several bank passbooks and other incriminating documents were recovered from the premises linked to the accused. However, reacting to the CBI searches, Singh held that he had done nothing wrong and accused the Central BJP of misusing central agencies to target its political opponents.