New Delhi: Under fire over red flags raised by two of its Commissioners over the SIR process, the Election Commission Wednesday asserted that differing views and observations are a normal part of deliberation in any institution and all its orders carry full legal sanction and...
New Delhi: The Opposition Wednesday cited a media report, which claimed that the two Election Commissioners objected to the Election Commission's steps 14 times in 10 months amid the SIR rollout, and alleged that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has "destroyed" the credibility of the...
United Nations: President Donald Trump has signed an agreement with Denmark and Greenland aimed at strengthening Arctic and North Atlantic security, easing tensions over his repeated calls for Greenland to become part of the United States. The signing Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN...
United Nations: As US President Donald Trump began to describe the last six months of on-and-off military strikes against Iran, the delegation of Iranians at the UN General Assembly began to walk out, with only one person remaining seated. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday told the Election Commission that notices under Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Delhi are going to people almost mechanically and it should look for some additional safeguards. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday sought response of the Centre on a plea by Carnatic vocalist T M Krishna challenging the penal law mandating singing of six stanzas of Vande Mataram. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and V...
Nisshin (Japan): The Indian women's cricket team reasserted its continental dominance by clinching a second successive gold medal at the Asian Games, thrashing familiar foes Sri Lanka by 147 runs in the final Tuesday. The Harmanpreet Kaur-led side's gold was India's first of the ongoing...
Bhubaneswar: Monsoon Session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly began Tuesday as scheduled, with the House opening its proceedings at 11 am. The seventh session of the 17th Assembly began with the singing of ‘Vande Mataram’ and the national anthem after Speaker Surama Padhy took her...
Washington: The US Department of Commerce has postponed its preliminary decision in a countervailing-duty investigation into imports of welded stainless line and pressure pipe from India, pushing the deadline from October 8 to December 14. The investigation also covers imports of the same product from...
Bhubaneswar: As the students' agitation over errors in school textbooks gains momentum in Odisha, the CJP on Monday extended its support to the ongoing 'satyagraha' by the Navnirman Yuva Chhatra Sangathan (NYCS), which is demanding the resignation of School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond...
The alleged suicide by a second-year B. Tech student of the prestigious IIT Bombay, one of India’s most premier institutes,...
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Political satire, which in the present social media age also assumes the form of memes, is a healthy process of...
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Almost ten years ago on 8 November 2016 when PM Narendra Modi personally, in a highly insensitive and arbitrary manner,...
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By Aakar Patel Work on Donald Trump’s arch begins in Washington, DC, this month. Fashioned on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe,...
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