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New Delhi: Asserting that delay or weak action encourages unethical people, President Droupadi Murmu Friday said that prompt legal action against corrupt is extremely important. Addressing the vigilance awareness week function of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) here, she said that properties worth over $12...

Imphal: At least six houses were torched and residents of a tribal village were attacked by a group of armed militants in ethnic strife-torn Manipur's Jiribam district, police said Friday. The incident occurred Thursday evening in Zairon Hmar village after the group of militants set...

New Delhi: Anil Pradhan, a 28-year-old engineer from Odisha, was awarded the third Rohini Nayyar Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Rural Development for his work in promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education among students in rural India. Pradhan, co-founder of the Young Tinker...

New Delhi: In a 4:3 decision a seven-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court Friday overruled its 1967 judgment which had laid down that Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), being a Central varsity, cannot claim to be a minority institution. “The view taken in the 1967...

Srinagar: Ruckus prevailed in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for the third day Friday as BJP members protested over the special status resolution, leading the speaker to marshal out 12 opposition MLAs and Langate legislator Sheikh Khurshid. As the House met for the day, BJP...

Srinagar: Two terrorists were killed on Friday in an overnight encounter with security forces in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir. Their identification and affiliation is being ascertained, the Kashmir Zone police posted on X. Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition were recovered from them. The...

New Delhi: The Income-Tax Department Thursday carried out searches at offices of global caller ID platform Truecaller on charges of tax evasion, official sources said. The Stockholm-headquartered company said it was cooperating with the investigators. Tax officials said the searches were aimed to gather detailed...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday ordered that the report prepared by the National Task Force (NTF), set up by the Union government on its order in the aftermath of the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of RG Kar Medical College &...

New Delhi: The Union government will soon release a national policy and strategy to counter terrorism, that will help demolish the entire terror ecosystem, said Home Minister Amit Shah Thursday, reiterating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slogan of “zero tolerance for terrorism”. Speaking at the 'Anti-Terror...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate Thursday conducted searches against some 'main vendors' operating on e-commerce platforms of giants like Amazon and Flipkart as part of a foreign investment ‘violation’ investigation, official sources said. A total of 19 premises of these "preferred" vendors located in Delhi,...