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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday stayed an order of the Madras High Court which quashed Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay's order providing government jobs to relatives of people who died in a stampede at Karur last year. A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and...

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant Friday termed the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) intervention in the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University of Law, NALSAR controversy as “completely unnecessary” and reaffirmed that students have a fundamental right to protest,...

New Delhi: A total of 1,057 personnel from Police, Fire, Home Guard and Civil Defence, and Correctional Services have been awarded Gallantry and Service Medals on the occasion of Independence Day 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs said Friday. According to the ministry, honours include...

New Delhi: Centre Friday notified 40 questions - caste, place of Covid vaccination being two of them - to be asked of respondents during the population enumeration phase of the Census, set to begin from September 1 in snow-bound areas, a government order said. The...

Gopeshwar (Uttarakhand): Seven workers died when water gushed inside a tunnel under construction at a hydroelectric project site in Chamoli district, officials said Friday. Search for three missing persons is currently underway, they said. The incident occurred in a tunnel at Mayapur (Pipalkoti), when landslides...

Bhubaneswar: Six eminent artistes from Odisha were among the recipients of the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for 2024 and 2025, presented by President Droupadi Murmu during a ceremony held at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi Thursday. The awards were presented to more than 100...

Dehradun: Six people died and 14 sustained injuries Thursday after water and debris entered a tunnel under construction at a hydroelectric project site in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, officials said. According to preliminary information shared by the officials, 22 workers were trapped inside the tunnel....

New Delhi: State-owned NHAI has set a 10-minute deadline for ambulances deployed on national highways to reach any accident site within a 10-km vicinity, to cut delays in emergency response. It said failure to meet the timeline could attract a penalty of Rs 10,000 per...

Washington: US Thursday accused more than 40 countries, including India, of operating a “shadow transhipment network” to help China evade high tariffs and unveiled plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and penalise such practices. In a report titled ‘The Great Trans shipment Scam’,...

New Delhi: Hours after India made public assurances last week that ethanol-blended petrol was safe, the country’s main auto lobby withdrew a complaint about fuel contamination it had sent to the government a week earlier, saying some figures needed more checks. But separate communications between...