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Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided that the voters from three "aboriginal tribes" or "primitive tribes" will be automatically enlisted in the final voters' list of West Bengal. The voters from these three communities will not be required to furnish any document...

New Delhi: Paush Purnima, the first full moon of the Hindu lunar calendar in 2026, will be observed Saturday, coinciding with a spectacular celestial event, the year’s first supermoon which is also being called the 'Wolf Supermoon'. The bright Wolf Supermoon is expected to illuminate...

Mumbai: With just 12 days remaining for the 29 Municipal Corporation elections in Maharashtra, the State Election Commission (SEC) has launched a high-level inquiry into the "unopposed" election of 69 candidates across the state. The SEC has initiated this move as it is mandatory to...

Chennai: Special camps to facilitate voter registration are being held across Tamil Nadu for two days, beginning Saturday, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls. The initiative comes in the wake of a large-scale revision exercise that has resulted...

New Delhi: The government Friday issued a stern notice to Elon Musk-led social media platform X to immediately remove all vulgar and unlawful content, especially generated by its AI app Grok or face action under the law. The Ministry of Electronics and IT has issued...

New Delhi: Social media firms should take responsibility for content they publish and a standing committee has already recommended a tough law to fix accountability of platforms, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Friday. The Centre has earlier this week warned online platforms -- mainly social...

Shimla/Dharamshala (HP): Three students of a government college in Himachal Pradesh's Dharamshala have been booked for ragging and voluntarily causing hurt while a professor has been booked for sexual harassment of a 19-year-old woman who died December 26, police said Friday. The woman student died...

New Delhi: The collection of enumeration forms from electors in urban areas was "much less" as compared to rural areas in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' list in nine states and three Union territories, EC officials said Friday citing available trends. They...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday targeted the BJP's double-engine government in Madhya Pradesh after at least 10 people died allegedly due to contaminated water in Indore and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is always silent whenever poor die. Gandhi alleged that Madhya Pradesh...

Chennai: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Friday said India has every right to defend its people when it comes to "bad neighbours" and asserted that a neighbouring country cannot ask New Delhi to share water if it continues to spread terrorism in the country. At...