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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its February 15 verdict, which had scrapped the Modi government's electoral bonds scheme of anonymous political funding. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai,...

Kolhapur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday said removing the existing 50 per cent cap on reservation is necessary to protect the Constitution, and asserted that the INDIA bloc will ensure passage of laws to this effect in Parliament. Speaking at the 'Samvidhan Samman Sammelan' here,...

Vadodara: A teenage girl was allegedly raped by two unidentified persons, whose accomplice restrained her male friend, on a deserted stretch on the outskirts of Gujarat's Vadodara city, police said Saturday. The alleged crime was committed on a Navratri night when revellers come out in...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar Saturday ruled out any India-Pakistan dialogue during his upcoming visit to the neighbouring nation for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit and said that it was rather a multilateral event. Jaishankar acknowledged that his visit to Pakistan...

New Delhi: India conducted three successful flight tests of a very short-range air defence missile system at Rajasthan's Pokhran firing ranges. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Saturday congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Army for the flight tests of the fourth-generation...

New Delhi: Low-cost airline major IndiGo Saturday experienced a major network outage, disrupting flight operations and ground services across the nation. The technical glitch left several air travellers stranded across airports as they were unable to board flights or book tickets, leading to significant delays....

New Delhi: India will host the four-nation Malabar naval exercise beginning Tuesday amid evolving security situation in the region. The navies of India, the US, Australia and Japan will carry out a series of complex naval drills during the 'sea phase' of the mega wargame....

Kolkata: The body of a 10-year-old girl was found in a marshy land in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district Saturday, triggering arson by locals at a police outpost there. Villagers alleged that the minor, who was missing since Friday evening, was raped and murdered,...

New Delhi: Contrary to the claims of “jobless growth,” the latest government data shows that employment in India increased by 36 per cent (17 million jobs) between 2016-17 and 2022-23. During the same period, the gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average rate of...

Dantewada: The bodies of three more Naxalites were recovered Saturday morning in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, where a fierce encounter with security personnel took place a day ago, police said. With this, the number of Naxalites killed in the gun battle with the security personnel Friday...