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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta Monday, announced that her government has decided to implement the Central government's 'Rah-Veer' scheme that offers a prize of Rs 25,000 to those who save the lives of road accident victims. "Under this scheme, citizens who assist seriously...

New Delhi: Messaging platform WhatsApp Monday informed the Supreme Court that it will comply with the directions issued by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) requiring the platform to provide users greater control over whether their data is shared with other Meta companies. A special...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday said it would examine whether the sharp reduction in the qualifying marks for NEET-PG 2025-26 affects the standard of postgraduate medical education. A bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe made the remarks while hearing a batch...

New Delhi: The Election Commission will discuss sharing technology with state poll panels, mandated to hold municipal and panchayat elections in states, at a conference here Tuesday. The conference is being held after a gap of 27 years. The last such conference was held in...

New Delhi: The government Monday unveiled the country's first counter-terrorism policy, ‘Prahaar’, setting out a multi-layered strategy based on "zero tolerance", intelligence-led prevention and disruption of extremist violence that aims to deny terrorists, their financiers and supporters access to funds, weapons and safe havens. The...

New Delhi: Delhi Police has made seven arrests, including three from Gwalior, in connection with the 'shirtless' protest by the Indian Youth Congress workers at the AI Impact Summit last week, an official said Monday. Charges of promoting enmity between groups and assertions harmful to...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday sought details of backward communities among Muslims while hearing a plea seeking quota in jobs and admissions under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category for 'Pasmanda Muslims'. "What about the other Muslim OBCs? The OBC is not only a social...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Monday met a gym owner from Uttarakhand who shot into the limelight as "Mohammad Deepak" for taking on Bajrang Dal activists allegedly harassing a Muslim shopkeeper, and expressed support by telling him that he would come to Kotdwar to...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik released the final electoral roll Monday and 97.37 lakh names of voters were deleted under various categories. The state now has 5.67 crore voters, she said. Addressing a press conference, Patnaik said before the SIR exercise, the...

Jammu: The Army Monday termed the killing of three Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar a "massive blow to the terror network", and said it was the culmination of a relentless, high-altitude joint operation conducted over 326 days in extremely challenging terrain. Three members...