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SC delivers split verdict on Section 17A of PC Act mandating sanction to probe govt servants

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a split verdict on the constitutional validity of a 2018 provision of the anti-graft law which...

Iran unrest hits India’s basmati rice exports, domestic prices slide

NEW DELHI: Civil unrest in Iran has begun affecting India’s basmati rice exports to the country, triggering a sharp fall in domestic prices as...

Extreme cold conditions can affect kidney, lungs and heart: AIIMS doctors

NEW DELHI: As the national capital reels under a cold wave, doctors at AIIMS Delhi warned that such extreme cold conditions can complicate chronic...

PM Modi believes in empowering people, not offering freebies: Goyal

RAJKOT: Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes in empowering people through schemes instead of offering freebies. Addressing a seminar...

Complete disclosure in applications for govt job basic requirement rooted in fairness: SC

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said proper and complete disclosure in applications for government employment was not a simple procedural formality, but...

Swami Vivekananda was India’s greatest international ambassador of culture: CJI Kant

NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Monday paid tributes to spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary and said that...

Ajmer Sharif Dargah was temple, claims petition in court; demands ASI survey

JAIPUR: A petition claiming that the Ajmer Dargah was originally a "Shiva temple" and demanding a survey of the site was filed in a...

TMC’s Abhishek slams ED raid on I-PAC office, alleges political vendetta

KOLKATA: TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Monday attacked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for its recent raid on the office of political consultancy firm I-PAC...

Allahabad HC sets Feb 3 hearing in Gyanvapi mosque dispute case

PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad High Court has fixed February 3 as the next date for the hearing in the Gyanvapi mosque dispute case in Varanasi. The...

ISRO’s PSLV-C62 rocket encounters ‘anomaly’, deviates from flight path, misses orbit

SRIHARIKOTA (AP): ISRO's PSLV-C62 rocket carrying 16 satellites, including a foreign Earth Observation satellite, "encountered an anomaly", the space agency said on Monday, signalling...

Edu Min interacts with 43 young authors selected under PM-YUVA 3.0

NEW DELHI: Interacting with 43 young authors selected under the PM-YUVA 3.0 (Prime Minister’s Young Authors Mentorship Scheme), Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has...

Forces opposing Somnath rebuilding still active, need to defeat them: PM Modi

SOMNATH (GUJARAT): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the forces that had opposed the reconstruction of the Somnath temple after independence are "still...

India tightens crypto noose: Live selfies, geo-tagging now mandatory for users

NEW DELHI: In an effort to eliminate illegal activity in the digital asset market, India's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has unveiled stringent new Anti-Money...

Amit Shah warns of emerging threats in Kerala, questions role of SDPI, JeI

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday warned that Kerala's law and order situation may look calm now, but "several threats are slowly...

BJP wants to create communal unrest in Punjab, won’t succeed: CM Mann

BATHINDA (PUNJAB): Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann accused the BJP on Sunday of tampering with a video of AAP leader Atishi as part...

Ajit Doval says India should ‘take revenge’ for history

Drops Napoleon quote to describe PM Modi NEW DELHI: India should "take revenge" for its painful history of attacks and subjugation, national security adviser Ajit...

BJP’s ideology teaches to work for everyone, it’s not against Muslims: Gadkari

NAGPUR: The BJP's ideology teaches its followers to work for everyone irrespective of caste and creed, and it was not against Muslims, Union Minister...

India will one day have hijab-clad woman as PM, says Owaisi

BJP slams his 'irresponsible' remark MUMBAI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said a hijab-clad woman would one day become India's prime minister as the country's...

No jewellery to customers wearing burqa, mask, veil in Varanasi: Traders body

VARANASI (UP): Local unit of Uttar Pradesh Jewellers Association on Saturday imposed a ban on the sale of jewellery to customers wearing a veil,...

ED raids on I-PAC: Bengal govt files caveat in SC

NEW DELHI: The West Bengal government has filed a caveat in the Supreme Court seeking that no order should be passed without hearing it...

Akhilesh Yadav questions EC’s impartiality over SIR voter list

LUCKNOW: Apolitical storm has erupted in Uttar Pradesh over the draft voter list released after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. Samajwadi Party (SP)...

Closely following developments: India on US bill to impose tariffs on nations procuring Russian oil

NEW DELHI: India on Friday said it is closely following developments relating to a proposed legislation by the US that seeks to impose up...

ED raids meant to steal TMC strategy; BJP leaders linked to coal money, alleges Mamata

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged that the ED's searches at the premises of I-PAC were aimed at "stealing" the...

Not accurate: India rejects Lutnick’s remarks that trade deal stalled as Modi didn’t dial Trump

NEW DELHI: India on Friday rejected as "inaccurate" US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's remarks that a proposed trade deal between the two countries could...

Cynicism has no place in India’s democratic progress: PM Modi

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said cynicism has no place in India’s democratic progress. Responding to an article written by Union Minister...

ED tried to seize TMC’s internal data during raid at I-PAC chief’s house, alleges Mamata

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that ED officials were attempting to seize TMC’s hard disks, internal documents and sensitive...

Turkman Gate violence:  Delhi court sends 5 accused to 13 days’ judicial custody

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday remanded five men arrested in connection with a stone-pelting incident near the Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid at Turkman Gate...

Tenor of Sonam Wangchuk’s speech not to spread violence, but to end it: Wife tells SC

NEW DELHI: Jailed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife, Gitanjali J Angmo, told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the tenor of her husband's speech...

I campaigned to make Modi PM, he is out to finish my party: Uddhav Thackeray

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that he had campaigned to make Narendra Modi the prime minister in 2014 and...

 US capture of Maduro-Jungle law of might is right appears to be taking over: Tharoor

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday raised concerns about the recent US capture of the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and said that the...

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