New Delhi: A Delhi court Friday sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others to life imprisonment for the murder of IB officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 Delhi riots. Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh pronounced the sentence to all five accused after hearing...
New Delhi: Taking note of accidents due to stray animals on roads, the Supreme Court Friday directed the Centre and the state governments to develop a mechanism for payment of compensation in such accidents. A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N Kotiswar Singh issued...
Ceuta (Spain): At least 18 migrants have died trying to reach the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, where Spain deployed its military after thousands of people breached the border with Morocco and poured into the tiny Spanish territory. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is expected to...
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Friday passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026, amid Opposition protests over the police crackdown on students during the July 20 Parliament march, with the legislation being cleared without a debate. The bill was taken up for consideration...
New Delhi: BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla Friday updated his X bio with no mention of the BJP in it, setting off speculation that he may have quit the party. There was no official confirmation to this, as Poonawalla could not be reached for comments...
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the Delhi Police on jailed former JNU student Umar Khalid's regular bail plea in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots "larger conspiracy" case and sought its response. A Division Bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and...
New Delhi: Amid continuous sloganeering by Opposition members, the Rajya Sabha proceedings were cut short Friday and the House was adjourned till August 3. Congress President and Leader of Opposition in the Upper House, Mallikarjun Kharge, sought to raise a notice under Rule 267. Rajya...
Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam remained grim Friday, with more than 2.12 lakh people continuing to reel under the impact of inundation across eight districts, while the cumulative death toll due to this year's floods rose to 80, officials said. According to the Assam...
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha proceedings started Friday, the last working day of the second week of the Monsoon Session, amid ruckus and sloganeering by the Opposition. As the House began its proceedings, Opposition members started creating uproar, raising questions over police excesses during the...
Washington: The White House released a fact sheet asserting that declassified US intelligence documents show the People's Republic of China and its proxies obtained the voter registration data of as many as 220 million Americans, including information that was not publicly available. The fact sheet...
By Aakar Patel There was a remarkable exchange in the Delhi High Court this week. The government was asked why...
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By Dilip Cherian How an Education Ministry worthy wins a new post will be a tale told later. But for...
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The Centre is courting yet another controversy by introducing a Bill in the Lok Sabha that seeks to fundamentally alter...
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Change rarely arrives announced. But when a popular movement stirs, transformation can sweep in like a tide. The recent by-election...
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