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New Delhi: Former Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi has hit out at the Election Commission over the ongoing SIR exercise, saying the process is focused more on exclusion and has played havoc with democracy, with free and fair elections having been disturbed. The emphasis...

New Delhi: Congress leader P Chidambaram claimed that the BJP is wooing the NCP (SP) and the DMK to get their support for the 131st Constitution Amendment Bill which the government intends to bring in the Monsoon session of Parliament and urged the two regional...

Imphal: An unruly mob attacked an Assam Rifles camp in Manipur's Senapati town, resorting to stone-pelting, arson and vandalism in an apparent attempt to obstruct a security operation against armed militants, officials said Wednesday. The mob vandalised and damaged several Assam Rifles vehicles during the...

New Delhi: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said the India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has come into force under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling it a defining milestone in bilateral ties. In a post on X,...

Pune: Heramb Karmarkar, a marine engineer from Pune who had gone missing following an attack on the merchant vessel 'GFX Galaxy' near the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, has died, his family confirmed Wednesday. The commercial vessel GFS Galaxy, carrying Indian nationals...

United Nations: India has warned that people’s view of the UN is sinking as it fails to reform the Security Council to make it capable of ending conflicts and human suffering. “Public perception about the UN has changed adversely in the recent past primarily due...

 Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Days after the State Sentence Review Board (SSRB) recommended for release of Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, currently serving life imprisonment for the killings of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons in 1999, Supreme Court Tuesday directed the state...

Washington: Nasa astronaut Anil Menon and two Russian cosmonauts Tuesday lifted off onboard a Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft from Kazakhstan on an eight-month mission to the International Space Station. The Roscosmos spacecraft carrying Menon and Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from the...

New Delhi: The net direct tax collection grew 16.40 per cent to over Rs 6.51 lakh crore till July 13 this fiscal, driven by higher corporate tax mop-up, government data showed Tuesday. The net corporate tax collection rose 22 per cent to Rs 2.40 lakh...

New Delhi: India Tuesday said fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi will be extradited from the United Kingdom once ongoing legal proceedings are completed. Modi is wanted in India to stand trial on fraud and money laundering charges in an estimated USD 2 billion Punjab National...