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New Delhi: BJP Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey has launched a scathing attack on the former Chief Election Commissioner of India, S.Y. Quraishi, saying that "he was not an election commissioner, but a Muslim commissioner". Dubey cited the case of Jharkhand's Santhalpargana, where the maximum...

New Delhi: The death toll from the building collapse in Mustafabad, Delhi, has reached 11, and three others are currently receiving treatment at the hospital. Among the deceased are seven members of a single family, including 60-year-old Tehsin, the owner of the building, his son,...

Bengaluru: Principal and staff of Sai Spoorthi Pre-University College in Karnataka's Bidar district were suspended after a probe by the police confirmed that students were not allowed to take the Common Entrance Test (CET) for wearing the sacred thread (janivara/janeu), in violation of rules and...

New Delhi: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey Saturday stirred controversy with a sharp statement directed apparently at the judiciary amid the ongoing Supreme Court review of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. Dubey questioned the judiciary's role in legislative matters, suggesting that if courts assume the task...

Kolkata: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose Saturday met family members of a man and his son, who were killed during violence over anti-Waqf Act protests in Murshidabad, and other victims of the riot-affected areas of the district and assured them of all possible support....

Mumbai: In a significant development, estranged cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray Saturday signalled a willingness to set aside their past differences and unite for the larger cause of protecting Maharashtra’s interests and preserving the Marathi language. Uddhav Thackeray, who leads the Shiv Sena (UBT),...

New Delhi: A multi-storey residential building collapsed in northeast Delhi's Shakti Vihar area in the early hours of Saturday, leaving 11 people dead and 11 injured, officials said. Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), fire services, Delhi Police and other volunteers carried out...

New Delhi: India Saturday condemned the alleged abduction and killing of a Hindu minority leader in Bangladesh and called on the interim government in Dhaka to live up to its responsibility of protecting the minorities. In a social media post, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir...

New Delhi: The terms of references (ToRs) finalised by India and the US for the proposed bilateral trade agreement include around 19 chapters covering issues such as goods, services, and customs facilitation, official sources said. To give further impetus to the talks, an Indian official...

New Delhi: Twenty-four candidates secured a perfect 100 in the engineering entrance JEE (Main), the results of which were announced by the National Testing Agency Saturday. Seven toppers are from Rajasthan, three each from Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra; two each from Delhi, West Bengal...