Security personnel at the Idgah ground in Bengaluru on Tuesday. (PTI)
India Top News Today: In two separate courtroom battles Tuesday, the Supreme Court said no to Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at the Idgah grounds in Bengaluru while the Dharwad bench of the Karnataka High Court late at night declined to stay an order of the Hubbali Mayor allowing the celebrations at the Idgah maidan in Hubbali. In the Supreme Court, a three-judge bench of Justices Indira Banerjee, Abhay S Oka and M M Sundresh, which heard the matter for nearly two hours, directed that status quo “as of today” be maintained regarding the land at Chamarajpet in Bengaluru and said the parties should go back to the Karnataka High Court to agitate their issues.
In other news, after having given over four decades of his political career to the Congress party, veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad recently quit the grand old party. He spoke with Manoj C G on a variety of issues concerning the party, the factors that drove him to the “point of no return”, Rahul Gandhi’s upcoming ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, his view on Congress’s future, his own political plans, among others. Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since World War Two and bring about the reunification of Germany.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since World War Two and bring about the reunification of Germany. “Mikhail Gorbachev passed away tonight after a serious and protracted disease,” Russia’s Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement.
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