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New Delhi: Supreme Court Tuesday directed all the states and union territories to identify officers in the Department of Women and Child Development at the district and taluka levels and designate them as protection officers. A protection officer is an appointed individual tasked with ensuring...

Chandigarh: The National Investigation Agency, Intelligence Bureau and military intelligence officials are questioning Haryana YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who was arrested recently on charges of spying for Pakistan, police said Tuesday. A probe into the YouTuber's financial transactions and travel details is also underway, they said....

Imphal: In a series of joint operations, the Army, in coordination with other forces, including police, has arrested 29 militants of different proscribed outfits and recovered 28 weapons, huge quantities of ammunition and explosives from different districts of Manipur, officials said on Tuesday. A Defence...

Bhopal: Eventually, Madhya Pradesh Tribal Welfare Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah opted to skip the cabinet meeting amid ongoing controversy surrounding his “offensive” remarks about senior Army officer Colonel Sofiya Qureshi. His decision to stay away comes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s directive to...

New Delhi: The Centre Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to confine the hearing on pleas challenging the validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act for passing interim orders to three issues, including the power to denotify properties declared as “waqf by courts, waqf-by-user or waqf by...

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress national general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee will represent the party in the multi-party delegations that would visit different countries to convey India's stand post Operation Sindoor, sources said Tuesday. The decision came after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday held that fresh law graduates cannot appear in the judicial services examination, mandating a minimum of three years of legal practice for candidates applying to entry-level posts. The verdict will have far-reaching implications for judicial service aspirants. A bench...

New Delhi: The southwest monsoon is likely to reach Kerala in the next four-five days, much earlier than the usual date of June 1, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Tuesday. The weather department had earlier forecast that the monsoon would onset over Kerala by...

New Delhi: Amid demands for a special session of Parliament on Operation Sindoor, CPI leader D Raja Tuesday said it is "unacceptable" that foreign governments are to be briefed on the matter while Indians "remain in the dark". The Communist Party of India (CPI) general...

Hyderabad: A computer hard disk was stolen from Raj Bhavan, the official residence of the Telangana Governor, here. The theft occurred May 14, and the next day, police arrested a hardware engineer working in Raj Bhavan on an outsourcing basis. However, the incident came to...