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New Delhi/ Srinagar: The Centre has significantly strengthened the authority of the lieutenant governor in Jammu and Kashmir, empowering him to make decisions on crucial matters such as police, and all-India services officers and granting sanctions for prosecution in various cases. The opposition slammed the...

New Delhi: INDIA bloc parties won 10 Assembly seats, while the BJP clinched two and an Independent one, as votes were counted Saturday for the by-elections held earlier this week on 13 seats in seven states. The bypolls were held Wednesday in four seats in...

New Delhi: India will host the first World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit in November alongside the International Film Festival of India in Goa, with I&B Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw promising to strengthen the ecosystem for the protection of intellectual property rights in the media and...

New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has powers to constitute benches and frame regulations, the Supreme Court has said while observing that the autonomy of CIC is of paramount importance for its effective functioning. A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma...

Mumbai: Maharashtra's cyber police have registered a case against popular YouTuber Dhruv Rathee after a parody account allegedly posted a fake message on X about Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's daughter, a senior official said Saturday. According to the state cyber department, the account with...

New Delhi: INDIA bloc parties won four assembly seats and were leading on six, while the BJP clinched one, and it and an Independent were ahead on one each as votes were counted Saturday for the by-elections held earlier this week, according to the trends...

United Nations: India has pledged to continue supporting the embattled UN agency helping Palestinians which is facing a financial crisis even as its needs have risen because of the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. R Ravindra, the charge d’affaires of India’s UN mission, said that the...

New Delhi: Candidates of INDIA bloc parties -- Congress, AAP, TMC and DMK -- Saturday were leading in 11 of the 13 assembly seats where bypolls were held earlier this week, according to the counting trends on the Election Commission (EC) website. While the BJP...

Mumbai: In the run-up to the upcoming Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections, the ruling MahaYuti alliance received a booster dose after it won nine seats in the state council poll, putting the brakes on the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA)'s victory march after the latter's gains in...

Shimla: It is a neck-and-neck contest in Himachal Pradesh’s Dehra assembly by-poll where Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur, who is making her electoral debut, has been leading by a slender margin, as per trends in the sixth round of counting Saturday. The...