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New Delhi: TMC MP Derek O'Brien has filed an application in the Supreme Court alleging arbitrariness and procedural irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal. The application claimed that since the inception of the SIR process in the state,...

New Delhi: Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan Tuesday stirred a hornet’s nest by insinuating a Venezuela-like operation in India and asking whether the US forces will conduct a similar operation to what they did to their incumbent President. Prithviraj Chavan, speaking to IANS, hurled a poser,...

New Delhi: India imported about 144 billion euros' worth of crude oil from Russia since the start of the Ukraine war, a European think tank said Tuesday, estimating the Kremlin's cumulative earnings from global oil sales since February 2022 at around 1 trillion euros. India...

New Delhi: Non-coal mining project developers will not have to show proof of land acquisition as a prerequisite for environmental clearance now, according to a recent environment ministry memorandum. So far, the ministry required proof of land acquisition. However, the norm was reconsidered following requests...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Tuesday took note of the number of interlocutory applications being filed before it in the stray dogs case and said that so many applications normally don't come even in cases of humans. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta...

New Delhi: A Delhi court Tuesday granted time till February 7 to Congress leader Sonia Gandhi to file her reply on a plea challenging a magistrate's order refusing to probe the allegation that she was included in the electoral rolls three years before acquiring Indian...

New Delhi: Observing that the central pollution watchdog is "failing in its duty", the Supreme Court Tuesday rapped the authority for seeking a two-month adjournment on the issue of temporary closure or relocation of toll plazas at Delhi borders to ease traffic congestion. The top...

Kolkata: Cricketer Mohammed Shami was asked to appear for the SIR verification hearing in Kolkata, officials said Tuesday. Shami was called for the hearing along with his brother Mohammed Kaif at a school in Jadavpur Monday, but the cricketer could not appear as he is...

Chennai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has issued summons to Vijay, founder and president of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), directing him to appear in person before the agency in New Delhi January 12. The summons was issued in connection with the Karur stampede...

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Tuesday said it had taken serious cognisance of videos from a protest in which the students' union raised highly objectionable, provocative, and inflammatory slogans, asserting that such actions demonstrate a “wilful disrespect for constitutional institutions. The university has also...