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DHAKA: About 250 people, including children, were feared missing after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals capsized in the Andaman Sea, the United Nations said on Tuesday, reports Ahsan Tasnim . “The trawler, which departed from Teknaf in southern Bangladesh and was on its way to Malaysia, reportedly sank due to heavy winds,…

KOLKATA: Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the Gorkha issue will be solved in a constitutional manner without dividing Bengal, if voted to office.Signalling a shift from the earlier position of Bengal BJP netas, who had been supporting Gorkhaland, Shah said at a rally in South Dinajpur’s Gangarampur: “I want to tell my…

NEW DELHI: As the opposition geared up for a joint meeting to take a collective view on the contentious delimitation bill on the eve of the special Parliament session, Congress Tuesday said the draft constitutional amendment bill doesn’t maintain state-wise proportionality of LS seats, and demanded that women’s quota be done on the existing lower…

NEW DELHI: In a move that aligns with New Delhi’s consistent position that Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) is an integral part of India, the Delimitation Bill, 2026 incorporates a provision authorising Election Commission to conduct delimitation of J&K constituencies that are currently under occupation by Pakistan whenever they “cease to be so occupied”.The elected…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said the huge pendency of execution petitions – more than 10 lakh in district courts out of which eight lakh are over six months old – is “very frightening and disappointing”. It has asked high courts to put in place a mechanism for their effective and speedy disposal. In civil…

NEW DELHI: The Centre reportedly plans to increase the Lok Sabha seats to a maximum of 850 seats to operationalise 33 per cent reservation for women before the 2029 parliamentary elections. According to the draft Constitution amendment bill, the proposal of which is set to be introduced during a special sitting of Parliament beginning April…

Candidates who became eligible after the qualifying cutoff of NEET PG 2025 was lowered took seats worth almost Rs 2,000 crore in 48 medical colleges that are deemed universities. This is an indication of just how important lowering of cutoff was for these private colleges.The government slashed the cutoff just before the third round of…

US President Donald Trump dialled PM Narendra Modi to discuss the situation in the West Asia region, including the importance of securing safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, and to review what the Indian leader described as substantial progress achieved in bilateral cooperation in various sectors. This was the second time that…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the Delhi-Dehradun economic corridor, which will cut travel time between the two cities to nearly half.The 213 km-long six-lane access-controlled Delhi-Dehradun economic corridor has been built at a cost of over Rs 12,000 crore.The corridor traverses through the states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and will reduce…

NEW DELHI: Siphoning or under-reporting toll revenue from overloaded vehicles on national highways will be impossible from April 15 (Wednesday). Toll collecting agencies will collect higher user charges from overloaded vehicles only via FASTag, and they must record such vehicles and report this to the government’s Vahan portal.The provision of reporting overloading to the Vahan…