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New Delhi: The Election Commission has followed up on its Supreme Court affidavit and separated the new voter enrolment form and an accompanying declaration in its online version in states where the SIR exercise is underway. In September, it had already withdrawn the declaration from...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Wednesday held that a 1974 Constitution Bench ruling upholding states' power to impose additional sales tax or surcharge calculated as a percentage of the existing sales tax continues to hold the field, saying a reference on the issue had become academic....

New Delhi: India's services sector activity recorded the strongest pace of expansion in four months in October as demand buoyancy fuelled growth in business activity and new orders amid easing cost pressures, a monthly survey said Wednesday. Companies were cautiously optimistic about the outlook, and...

Bhubaneswar: The Enforcement Directorate Wednesday conducted searches in Odisha and West Bengal as part of a money laundering probe linked to an alleged investment fraud with depositors involving funds of Rs 120 crore, officials said. The probe stems from an Odisha Police Economic Offences Wing...

New Delhi: Delhi Police has registered an FIR against senior Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan for sharing a digitally manipulated video of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that purportedly contained remarks hostile to India, officials said. The case was registered at the Special Cell police...

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has sharply criticised the Election Commission of India’s latest clarification on Form-6, terming it another set of “word games” that clarify nothing and expose how poorly designed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process is. In a post on...

New Delhi: An Indian sailor was killed in an attack on a commercial vessel near Limah in Oman last evening, triggering a strong condemnation of the strike by India, which renewed its call for immediate de-escalation of tensions in West Asia. The death of the...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked a traders’ body to make INDIA bloc parties respondents in its plea seeking to halt protests at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan during the festive season affecting their businesses, saying such sites cannot be occupied for “all times to come”....

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Presenting Odisha’s long-term clean-energy roadmap at Bharat Renewable Energy Summit and Expo 2026 in New Delhi Tuesday, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said the state aims to source 74 per cent of its installed power capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2047 and...

Bhopal:  With the rejection of the nomination papers of two independent candidates including one backed by Congress on Tuesday, Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri is set to win a Rajya Sabha by-election from Madhya Pradesh. The result will be announced November 5, the last...