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New Delhi: Congress Tuesday alleged that the West Bengal assembly polls were a "text book case of mass manipulation and rigging" which was overseen by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and asserted that the "puppet" has to go but the "two puppeteers" too have to...

Kathmandu: Nepal's Home Minister Sudan Gurung is scheduled to visit India next week to participate in the first meeting of the home ministers of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), scheduled for October 13, a senior official has said....

Washington: Indian professionals seeking employment-based US Green Cards continue to face waits stretching back more than a decade in key categories, even as the start of a new fiscal year has restored visa numbers and brought some movement, according to the US State Department's October...

New Delhi: The Election Commission Monday dubbed as "misleading" Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's claim that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar "changed Form 6 illegally and unilaterally", asserting that a declaration was attached to the form through its Bihar SIR order which was upheld by the...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government Monday said it will impose a minimum 10 per cent water cut in all urban and rural local bodies from October 16 amid a deficient monsoon. State Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan said his department had undertaken detailed dam-wise and use-wise...

Mumbai: Veteran screenwriter Javed Akhtar of the legendary screenwriting duo Salim-Javed, has issued a clarification with regards to a recent fake message attributed to him. On Monday, the veteran writer took to his X, formerly Twitter, and penned a long note quashing the claims that...

New Delhi: Former civil servants and rights activists Monday demanded Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar's resignation, issuing a "people's impeachment" notice that levelled six charges against him over the functioning of Election Commission and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The group, which...

New Delhi: Delhi Police has registered four FIRs in connection with alleged violence during NSUI's protest in Parliament Street area Monday, including cases related to purported stabbing of a CISF personnel, rioting, defacement and obstruction of public servants, officials said. As many as 18 people...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday asked the Centre to identify five cities across the country for starting a pilot project to ensure properly demarcated and encroachment-free footpaths wherever there is a road. A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and Alok Aradhe also directed the...

New Delhi: Stressing the need to instill fear in the minds of anti-social elements, the Supreme Court Monday said there appears to be a feeling that women are not safe in the city, more particularly in some vulnerable pockets of the National Capital Region. A...