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New Delhi: A total of 124 former IAS, IFS, IPS and allied services' officers have strongly defended the Election Commission (EC) and the SIR process, saying a system cannot be honest when someone wins and rigged when that person loses. In an open letter to...

Geneva: UN human rights office has raised concerns over mass detentions during large-scale protests in Delhi Saturday, as it urged Indian authorities to respect the right to peaceful assembly and called for the immediate release of anyone arbitrarily detained. Hundreds of protesters were detained as...

New Delhi: Supreme Court will hear Sunday a plea seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against authorities for alleged blatant violation of the court's direction to ensure no complete prohibition on metro and trains services in Delhi due to the CJP protest. According to the cause...

United Nations: India hits out at Pakistan at the UN, saying nuclear weapons must not be treated as "routine instruments of statecraft", asserting that New Delhi will "not bow" to nuclear blackmail. India exercised its Right of Reply at the plenary meeting of the First...

New Delhi: An unprecedented security clampdown and the detention of over 7,000 protesters, including CJP leader Abhijit Dipke, four former chief ministers and YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, helped the government thwart a planned mass mobilisation at Jantar Mantar Saturday to press for the resignation of Chief...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan Saturday condemned the detention of CPI-M leader and former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan by the Delhi Police and directed the State Chief Secretary Bishwanath Sinha and the Resident Commissioner Puneet Kumar in New Delhi to coordinate with the police...

New Delhi: Climate activist and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk Saturday condemned the arrests of student and youth leaders in Delhi intended to stall the CJP protest, describing the situation as reminiscent of an "undeclared emergency" in the country. Urging the government to stop the arrests...

Kolkata: A Returning Officer (RO), acting on behalf of the Election Commission of India (ECI), has lodged a police complaint against Trinamool Congress general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee over allegedly misleading information shared on social media regarding the Rejinagar Assembly bypoll results....

New Delhi: The plan was to assemble at Jantar Mantar, but it was not to be. A sea of khaki and blue-green fatigues, metal barriers and buses parked askew on streets turned India's address of dissent into a fortress Saturday, scattering protesters across Delhi, with...

Imphal: Three people, including a woman, were killed in fresh clashes between armed groups in Manipur’s Kamjong and Ukhrul districts in the past 24 hours, while Kamjong police station was reportedly set on fire, officials said Saturday. Meanwhile, police have dismissed reports and video circulating...