New Delhi: The Election Commission Friday decided to provide another opportunity to electors in seven states who were marked as Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate (ASDD), and whose Enumeration Forms were issued but not received back, resulting in their exclusion from the Draft Electoral Rolls...
New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday termed vehicular emissions a major contributor to air pollution in Delhi-NCR, and said immediate, medium and long-term measures were needed to curb the rising air quality index. Hearing a suo motu case examining the regulatory framework governing air pollution, a...
Ranchi: At least seven people, including three children and three women, were killed and one injured after being run over by a speeding 18-wheel truck in Jharkhand's Khunti district, police said Friday. The incident happened on the Karra-Torpa main road within the Karra police station...
New Delhi: Amid repeated claims on social media about "friction" in the ECI, the poll panel has reiterated that the SIR decisions were taken unanimously and letters written by two Election Commissioners to the Cabinet Secretary were “not related to any policy matter” or the...
New Delhi: The Centre Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it is setting up a special committee to re-examine the University Grants Commission's (UGC) 2026 regulations aimed at promoting equity in higher education institutions. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi...
New Delhi: Election Commission Thursday announced a Special Summary Revision of electoral rolls in Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu, Mizoram, Odisha and Sikkim. The poll roll revision exercise seeks to enrol eligible voters, particularly young and first-time electors, and...
Washington: Democrats swept Texas from the top of the ballot to the state House in the US Midterm elections, ousting Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, winning the Attorney General's office that Ken Paxton used to investigate H-1B visa use, and taking control of the Texas House...
Dubai: Iran has exempted commercial ships from four countries, including India and China, from transit restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz, a top Iranian official has said, amid continued attacks on vessels attempting to cross the strategic waterway. Amir Hayat Moghadam, Deputy Chairman of the...
New Delhi: The government Wednesday announced a two-year extension of tenure for Agniveers. The decision was taken by the Union Cabinet presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The move came weeks before around 18,000 Agniveers were to exit the armed forces. Chief of Defence...
Washington: Democrats have retaken control of the U.S. Senate, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican control of governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Donald Trump. The midterm elections that came to a close Tuesday channeled voters' deep...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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