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Gayaji (Bihar): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday charged the INDIA bloc with opposing moves aimed at rooting out corruption in higher echelons of power and steps taken to tackle "threat" posed to the nation's demography from "infiltrators". The PM made indirect references to the Constitution...

New Delhi: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking the de-registration of the Indian National Congress (INC) for conducting nationwide “anti-constitutional” propaganda against the Election Commission of India (ECI). The plea stated that the propaganda is designed to undermine...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to allow excluded voters to submit claims through online mode besides making physical submissions in the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise of the electoral roll in poll-bound Bihar. A bench of Justices...

New Delhi: Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla Friday met President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here and shared his experiences in space, her office said. Shukla is the first Indian astronaut to travel to the International Space Station (ISS). He, along with other fellow astronauts, returned...

Mumbai: Lucky Bisht, RAW agent and PM Narendra Modi’s former bodyguard, has made a cameo in Sena: Guardians of the Nation. Speaking about how the cameo role in Sena happened, Bisht said, “It came through a special invitation. Considering his real-life military background and experience,...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's revised directions on stray dogs and said it marks a progressive step towards balancing animal welfare and public safety. The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha also said the approach is both compassionate...

New Delhi: The Japanese government plans to double the target for private-sector investment in India to 10 trillion yen ($68 billion) over the next 10 years, according to a media report from Tokyo. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday restrained Assam Police from taking any coercive action against senior journalist Siddharth Varadarajan and other journalists, including the consulting editor, working with the web portal "The Wire" in connection with an FIR lodged against them over a news article....

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday modified its earlier directions for the capture and complete relocation of stray dogs in the Delhi-NCR region. In a fresh order, the three-judge Bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N.V. Anjaria directed that stray dogs picked up...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court  Friday refused to urgently list for hearing an interim plea challenging mandatory registration of all waqfs, including waqf-by-users under the UMEED portal. The Centre had on June 6 launched the Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995 (UMEED)...