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Kolkata: The hearing for 'logical discrepancy' cases in the SIR exercise concluded across West Bengal Saturday, a senior EC official said, adding that the final electoral rolls is scheduled to be published February 28. The hearings, which addressed omissions and inconsistencies in name spellings, began...

Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) should directly initiate disciplinary action against errant electoral officers at different levels accused of deliberate irregularities in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, instead of sending repeated advisories to the state government to act against...

New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday paid tributes to CRPF personnel who died in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama in 2019 and said their courage and devotion to the nation will always be remembered. My heartfelt...

New Delhi: Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy has announced that she will not attend the Berlin International Film Festival due to the unconscionable statements made by the members of the festival jury about the genocide in Gaza. Roy was scheduled to attend the festival for...

Dehradun: Showcasing the increase in the number of AIIMS from 6 to 23 in 11 years, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J.P. Nadda Saturday urged fresh medical graduates to uphold the highest ideals of the profession and dedicate their skills to the service of...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is slated to hear Monday petitions seeking action against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over a viral video allegedly showing him taking aim and firing with a rifle at members of a particular community. According to the apex court...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi  Saturday accused the government of cheating cotton farmers and textile exporters in the country over the India-US interim trade deal and said the agreement is likely to inflict serious damage on both sectors. In a post on X, he...

Raipur: Four soldiers from the 201st COBRA Battalion lost their lives when their car collided with a stationary truck on the Khapri bypass in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district Saturday, officials said. The accident, which occurred under the jurisdiction of Arjuni police station, has left the state...

Mumbai: The NCP-SP legislator Rohit Pawar, Saturday, appealed to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah to order a comprehensive, transparent and independent investigation into the Learjet-45 aircraft accident near Baramati involving former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, which took place January 28. In a...

Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Saturday, inaugurated the Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) on the national highway in Moran in Assam's Dibrugarh district -- a first kind of such facility in the entire northeastern region, government officials said. Prime Minister Modi also witnessed an air show...