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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday rejected a plea seeking postponement of the NEET-PG examination, scheduled for August 11, which claimed that candidates have been allocated cities that are highly inconvenient for them to reach. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud...

New Delhi: The joint committee of Parliament to examine the Waqf (Amendment) Bill will have 31 members -- 21 from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha -- and will submit its report by the next Parliament session. The Lok Sabha Friday adopted...

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and actor-politician Jaya Bachchan were involved in a face-off Friday after Bachchan raised objection to his "tone" while giving her floor to speak and the former asserting that even a celebrity like her needs to follow decorum. Opposition...

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government Friday constituted a high-level committee, headed by a top Border Security Force (BSF) official, to monitor the situation along the Indo-Bangladesh border in wake of the ongoing state of affairs in the neighbouring country, Union Home Minister Amit Shah...

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has submitted a notice to initiate privilege proceedings in the Rajya Sabha against Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for "misleading" the House over the issue of alleged dropping of the Preamble to the Constitution from certain NCERT textbooks. In...

New Delhi: Indian wrestler Antim Panghal, who found herself in a soup following a disciplinary breach at the Olympic Games' athletes village in Paris, returned to the country Friday. The wrestler grabbed headlines Wednesday after she tried to facilitate her sister's entry into the athletes...

Paris: Wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s appeal to be awarded the silver medal in the Women’s Wrestling 50kg competition in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be represented by renowned senior counsels Harish Salve and Vidushpat Singhania before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ad-hoc division...

New Delhi: In a major relief to jailed AAP leader and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the Supreme Court Friday granted him bail in the liquor policy case. Pronouncing the verdict, a bench headed by Justice B.R. Gavai said that Sisodia has been...

New Delhi: Elated for her son's silver medal, Neeraj Chopra's mother Saroj Devi also expressed happiness for Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem, who broke the Olympic record to beat the Indian defending champion in Paris, saying that the latter is also like her "child". Chopra clinched the...

Wayanad: Search operations for the missing 152 people continued Friday, the 11th day of Kerala’s worst-ever natural calamity in Waynand in which 413 casualties have taken place so far. The search operations were taking place in the Mundakayil and Punchirimatom areas. State Tourism Minister P.A....