New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday granted bail to eight life convicts in 2002 Godhra train burning case in Gujarat, but declined bail to four others noting their roles in the case. In February 2002, 59 people were killed when a coach of the train...
Poonch: Five Army personnel were killed and another was seriously injured Thursday after their vehicle caught fire following a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch, officials said. The deceased Army soldiers were from a Rashtriya Rifles unit deployed for counterterror operations, the Army said...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government announced summer vacation for all schools in the state from Friday in view of the scorching heat, School and Mass Education (S&ME) Minister Samir Ranjan Dash informed Thursday. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik gave the nod to prepone the summer vacation for...
New Delhi: India has surpassed China to become the world's most populous nation with 142.86 crore people, according to the latest UN data. China now has a population of 142.57 crore, thus being the second most populous country, the UN world population dashboard showed. According...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday began hearing arguments on a batch of pleas seeking legal validation for same-sex marriages, with the Centre insisting its preliminary objection on whether the court can at all go into this question or it would be essentially for the...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday began hearing arguments on a batch of pleas seeking legal validation of same-sex marriages, an issue that has wide societal ramifications and has sharply divided opinion. The case is being heard by a five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice...
Patna: Making a U-turn on paying compensation to the victims of hooch tragedies in dry Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday announced conditional payment of an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh each to the next of kin of those who died after drinking spurious...
Chandigarh: Punjab Police Monday claimed that an Indian Army gunner was arrested for killing his four unarmed colleagues, who were asleep in a barrack in the Bathinda Military Station, last week. The gunner was an eyewitness who had falsely claimed that two masked people in...
Bengaluru: Senior BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar Monday joined the Congress ahead of the May 10 Assembly elections in the state. He joined the party in the presence of AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge, General Secretaries K C Venugopal and Randeep Singh...
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was questioned by the CBI Sunday for nearly nine hours in connection with the excise policy scam case, officials said. The AAP chief, who arrived at the heavily fortified agency headquarters at around 11 am in his official...
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s second visit to India has ruffled quite a few feathers in New Delhi....
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By Aakar Patel The three democratic tools available to us are the vote, the court and protest. The only one...
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By Dilip Cherian Appointing Gaurav Yadav as regular Director General of Police in Punjab settles a question that should never...
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Defeat in Ayodhya in 2024, where the Ram temple was built with much pomp, appears to have deeply shaken the...
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