New Delhi: Senior AAP leader and MLA Amanatullah Khan Monday claimed that a team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has reached his house here to arrest him. Sources said the ED team reached his house in Okhla as part of a money laundering investigation. The...
Vijayawada: Several residential areas in Andhra Pradesh's Vijayawada remained submerged Monday while authorities intensified rescue and relief operations. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams along with the rescue workers from various departments of the state government were using...
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday accused the BJP government of being a "mute spectator" in the face of "continuous attacks" on minorities, especially Muslims, and demanded the strictest action against "anarchist elements" behind such incidents. His comments come in the wake of two...
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Sunday and took stock of the situation in the two states in view of heavy rains and floods there, sources said. He also assured the two chief ministers...
Imphal: Two persons, including a woman, were killed and nine others injured when suspected militants launched a gun-and-bomb attack in Manipur's Imphal West district Sunday, police said. According to police, militants fired indiscriminately from hilltop positions towards the low-lying valley areas of Koutruk and neighbouring...
Ranchi: Eleven candidates died while undertaking physical tests during a drive to recruit excise constables in Jharkhand, police said Sunday. Physical tests under the Jharkhand excise constable competitive examinations began on August 22 in seven centres across Ranchi, Giridih, Hazaribag, Palamu, East Singhbhum and Sahebganj...
Jaipur: Rajasthan Education Minister Madan Dilawar Sunday announced that Mughal emperor Akbar will no longer be taught as a great figure in schools. He criticised Akbar, stating that he had plundered the country for years and asserted that no one would be allowed to praise...
New Delhi: The horrific rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor in Kolkata "is barbarity expressed in extremity, shaming humanity", and not an "occasion to vie with each other", Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar said Sunday. In his address at AIIMS Rishikesh, the Vice President...
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud Sunday said the fact that only 6.7 per cent court infrastructure at the district level is female-friendly needs to be changed. Speaking at the 'National Conference of the District Judiciary', Chandrachud said it should be ensured that...
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Sunday unveiled the new flag and insignia of the Supreme Court to commemorate the 75th year of its establishment. Addressing the valedictory session of the two-day National Conference of District Judiciary organised by the apex court, President Murmu said the...
By Aakar Patel Mother of Democracy is standing for a non-permanent elected seat at the United Nations Security Council. Non-permanent...
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A debate is spreading across India. The Cockroach students movement recently succeeded within a few days at forcing change that...
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Better late than never. Two days after the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the Supreme Court has stated...
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