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New Delhi: Providing more leeway for raising funds, Indian companies can now list their convertible debentures and preference shares apart from equity shares on international exchanges in the GIFT City, with the government easing the norms. Also, unlisted public companies as well as those having...

New Delhi: Social media platforms must take responsibility for content, necessary steps to ensure child safety, ensure measures on algorithmic transparency, and give citizens an effective voice to address grievances, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Friday. The Minister said that internet and social media landscape...

New Delhi: The Election Commission Friday decided to provide another opportunity to electors in seven states who were marked as Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate (ASDD), and whose Enumeration Forms were issued but not received back, resulting in their exclusion from the Draft Electoral Rolls...

New Delhi: Observing that independence of the judiciary is not a matter of "political convenience", the Supreme Court Friday issued a contempt notice to all office bearers of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee over a social media post targeting Chief Justice of India Surya Kant. A...

New Delhi: In a setback to journalist Tarun Tejpal, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to suspend the 10-year sentence handed down to him in a 2013 rape case. A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Prasanna B Varale observed that it was not...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday slammed the Modi government over Union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh's remarks that voter ID will replace Aadhaar for identifying beneficiaries for social welfare programmes, saying "this isn't just vote theft, it's rights theft". The Leader of Opposition in...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday termed vehicular emissions a major contributor to air pollution in Delhi-NCR, and said immediate, medium and long-term measures were needed to curb the rising air quality index. Hearing a suo motu case examining the regulatory framework governing air pollution, a...

New Delhi: Ahead of Diwali, the Delhi government has appealed to the public to comply with the Supreme Court's directions on the sale and use of certified green firecrackers in Delhi-NCR during a limited window around the festival. The district magistrate (East) said in an...

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: With the Congress leadership preparing to intensify its campaign for the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Kerala has opened a fresh front with a Vigilance probe into an alleged bribery case dating back to his tenure as a state government official....

Ranchi: At least seven people, including three children and three women, were killed and one injured after being run over by a speeding 18-wheel truck in Jharkhand's Khunti district, police said Friday. The incident happened on the Karra-Torpa main road within the Karra police station...