Colombo: Sri Lanka's Supreme Court Wednesday issued notices to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the Cabinet over the India-funded Sri Lanka Unique Digital Identity (SL-UDI) programme following a petition alleging violation of fundamental rights. The petition was filed by former minister Wimal Weerawansa, who contended...
London: Indians have emerged as the nationality with the largest percentage increase in convictions for sexual offences in the UK amid a wider surge in foreigners being sentenced for such crimes over the past four years in the country, according to an analysis of British...
Noida: In a fresh twist to the high-profile Greater Noida dowry death case, Nikki Bhati's sister-in-law, Meenakshi, has alleged that she was physically assaulted and humiliated by Nikki's family members over dowry demands. Meenakshi said she got married to Nikki's elder brother Rohit in 2016...
Jammu: After record rains wreaked havoc in Jammu and Kashmir over the past two days, the death toll in related incidents rose to 36, most of them victims of the landslide on a Vaishno Devi pilgrimage route, while there was some let-up in the showers...
New Delhi: In a change of strategy, the Voter Adhikar Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other Mahagathbandhan leaders in Bihar will now conclude with a march in Patna instead of a rally September 1, with top leaders of the alliance addressing at...
Mumbai: The 10-day Ganesh festival began in Mumbai, Pune and other parts of Maharashtra Wednesday, with people enthusiastically welcoming their favourite elephant-headed god into their homes, housing complexes, and public pandals. Chants of ‘Ganpati Bappa Morya, Mangal Murti Morya' filled the morning air as small,...
Bhubaneswar: A portion of a wall and a shed of a platform in Odisha's Cuttack railway station collapsed during ongoing redevelopment work Wednesday, officials said. No casualty was reported, they said, adding that train movement was affected temporarily. Due to the wall collapse at platform...
Bhubaneswar: An Odisha Finance Service (OFS) officer has been arrested for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000, Vigilance said Wednesday. The Vigilance sleuths arrested Sarita Barik, who was working as Assistant Commissioner of State Tax, Tuesday, and a case under the Prevention of...
Bhubaneswar: A day before the agrarian festival of Nuakhai, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Wednesday disbursed Rs 1,041 crore to the bank accounts of over 51 lakh farmers as the third instalment under the CM Kisan Yojana. Each beneficiary, mostly small and marginal farmers,...
Chandigarh: Hundreds of villages in Punjab along the swollen Satluj, Beas, and Ravi rivers were flooded Wednesday, severely affecting life and damaging crops after the floodgates of the Bhakra and Pong dams were opened. The inflow into these reservoirs had alarmingly increased due to torrential...
Police used water cannons, lobbed tear gas shells, and lathi-charged job aspirants as they breached barricades multiple times on 10...
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The defence pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, signed in Mecca on the principle that an attack on one...
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By Aakar Patel There was a remarkable exchange in the Delhi High Court this week. The government was asked why...
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By Dilip Cherian How an Education Ministry worthy wins a new post will be a tale told later. But for...
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