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...
New Delhi: Amid repeated claims on social media about "friction" in the ECI, the poll panel has reiterated that the SIR decisions were taken unanimously and letters written by two Election Commissioners to the Cabinet Secretary were “not related to any policy matter” or the...
New Delhi: A three-storey building under construction in Old Delhi's congested Chawri Bazar area collapsed Thursday, killing two people and trapping several under the debris. The building, coming up in crammed Gali Sitara near the Chawri Bazar metro station, gave way around 9.45 am. Frantic...
New Delhi: Manuscripts of the epic Mahabharata, Kalhana’s 12th-century historical chronicle Rajatarangini, and Kautilya’s Arthashastra, a work on governance and statecraft, have been inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional Register, officials said Thursday. PIB Culture made the announcement on X and shared...
New Delhi: In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the 24-hour constitutional deadline for producing an arrested person before a magistrate begins from the moment of detention, not from the time the police formally make the arrest. Holding that there can be...
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court Thursday provided relief to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, refusing to overturn a Varanasi court order rejecting an application for an FIR against him over his alleged remarks on Sikhs during his US visit in 2024. The court of CJM, Varanasi...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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