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New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna Wednesday recommended to the Centre the name of Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai as the next CJI. Justice Gavai, the second senior-most Supreme Court judge after the incumbent CJI Khanna, is set to become the 52nd CJI May...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday termed the recent communal violence in Murshidabad as "pre-planned" and accused a section of the BSF, central agencies under MHA, and the BJP of fanning tension by allegedly facilitating cross-border influx from Bangladesh. Addressing a meeting with...

New Delhi: The Dwarka court was evacuated Wednesday after a bomb threat, a police officer said. According to police, the court's Chief Judicial Magistrate had received an email at 3.11 am Tuesday about there being a bomb planted in the court's premises. The officer said...

Kochi: Giving relief to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his daughter Veena Vijayan, and Kochi-based mining company CMRL, a vacation bench of the Kerala High Court Wednesday ordered status quo for two months on a trial court's decision to take cognisance of a complaint filed by...

New Delhi: The RBI has already embarked on a rate-cutting cycle, and a report by HSBC Global Research said Wednesday that it expects a 25bp rate cut in each of the June and August policy meetings, taking the repo rate down to 5.5 per cent...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Wednesday expressed concern over the environmental damage due to the felling of a large number of trees on a land parcel next to the University of Hyderabad, and said it would go out of the way for the protection of environment...

New Delhi: Robert Vadra, the businessman brother-in-law of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate on the second straight day Tuesday for his questioning in a 2008 Haryana land deal linked money laundering case. He was accompanied by his...

New Delhi: Asserting that no one has a "license to loot", the ruling BJP Wednesday dismissed the Congress' charge of vendetta after the ED chargesheeted Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case. Former law minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said...

New Delhi: The US remained India's largest trading partner for the fourth consecutive year in 2024-25 with bilateral trade valued at USD 131.84 billion, while the country's trade deficit with China widened to USD 99.2 billion during the same period, government data showed. In the...

Imphal: Security forces arrested 11 cadres of three proscribed outfits from Thoubal, Tengnoupal and Imphal East and Imphal West districts of restive Manipur, police said Wednesday. These people, most of whom were picked up Tuesday, were allegedly involved in extortion. Four cadres of the KCP...