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Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court Friday dismissed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking a stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his "Modi surname" remark. While dismissing the plea, Justice Hemant Prachchhak noted that Gandhi is already facing 10 cases across India, adding...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has recommended to the Centre the names of seven judges for appointment as chief justice of seven high courts, including that of Orissa. For the Orissa High Court, the collegium said...

Kolkata: Two more poll-related deaths over the July 8 panchayat elections in West Bengal were reported in two districts in the past nine hours taking the toll to 17. Body of Dilip Nahra, whose wife Chobi Nahara is an independent candidate, was recovered early Thursday...

Mumbai: As many as 35 of 53 NCP MLAs were present at the party meeting convened by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in Mumbai Wednesday, party sources said. The number will increase further, the sources said. Five of eight NCP MLCs are also attending...

Mumbai: Four days after the Nationalist Congress Party split vertically, party President Sharad Pawar and his nephew Ajit Pawar shall attempt a show of their respective strength of the elected MLAs, which could be an indicator of the political weather ahead, here Wednesday. While the...

New Delhi: The top leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Tuesday described as "criminal and unjustifiable" any act of terrorism and asserted the "inadmissibility" of states using terrorist and extremist groups as part of achieving political and geopolitical goals. The SCO states, subject to...

New York: India's consulate in San Francisco came under an attack from Khalistan supporters who tried to set the diplomatic facility on fire in the second such act of violence within months, drawing strong condemnation from the US government which termed it a "criminal offence"....

Mumbai: A day after joining the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and state minister Chhagan Bhujbal Monday went to meet Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis to discuss allocation of portfolios in the cabinet, sources said. On Sunday, Ajit Pawar led a vertical...

Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has moved a petition before Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar, seeking the disqualification of Ajit Pawar and eight other MLAs who have taken oath as ministers in the Eknath Shinde-led government. Jitendra Awhad, whom the NCP has appointed leader...

Mumbai: For the fourth time in three years, Maharashtra braced for a political earthquake as Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar 'split' the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to join the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis...