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Pawan Khera (Image/ANI) NEW DELHI: The Telangana high court on Friday granted one week transit anticipatory bail to Congress leader Pawan Khera in a case registered by Assam Police over allegations of defamation, forgery and criminal conspiracy.The court directed that Khera be given protection for seven days to enable him to approach the appropriate court…
NEW DELHI: Justice Yashwant Varma on Friday submitted his resignation to the President amid cash recovery row and impeachment process.This follows the controversy over the alleged discovery of unaccounted cash and the impeachment proceedings initiated against him in Parliament, ANI reported. Justice Varma of the Allahabad high court was earlier transferred from the Delhi high…
NEW DELHI: In a key development for the Upper House, President Droupadi Murmu has nominated Harivansh Narayan Singh to the Rajya Sabha, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.The nomination was made under Article 80(1)(a) of the Constitution, recognising Harivansh’s contributions to journalism and social service. His…
Lt Col Shrikant Purohit (File photo) NEW DELHI: Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit, who was acquitted last year in the Malegaon blast case, has been cleared for promotion to the rank of brigadier, sources said on Friday. In July 2025, an NIA court acquitted Purohit and six others, including former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur,…
Foreign secretary Vikram Misri meets Marco Rubio NEW DELHI: US secretary of state Marco Rubio is set to visit India next month following a “productive” meeting with foreign secretary Vikram Misri in Washington, where both sides reviewed key aspects of the bilateral partnership, including trade, defence and the Quad.Misri, currently on a three-day visit to…
CPM general secretary MA Baby has written to EC expressing “grave concern” over large-scale deletion of voters from Bengal poll rolls. In his letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, Baby said, “SIR represents a systematic exercise in mass disenfranchisement, marked by arbitrary criteria such as ‘logical consistency’ and increasing reliance on algorithm-driven exclusions.“ AJUP nominee files…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC on Thursday upheld a trial court’s order declaring UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari a “fugitive economic offender” in connection with a money laundering case. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna found no merit in the appeal filed on behalf of the fugitive and dismissed it. In July 2025, a trial court had declared…
KOLKATA: The parents of Sunali Khatun, 26, the Bengal woman pushed into Bangladesh as an “illegal immigrant” last year, have their names on the voters list, strengthening her citizenship claims even as a legal battle continues for her husband and other kin packed off to the neighbouring country.Sunali’s mother, Jyotsna Bibi, was among the lakhs…
KOLKATA: Bengal’s favourite ‘maachh-bhaat’ filled the poll plate on Thursday as PM Narendra Modi accused Trinamool Congress of failing to feed the piscine-loving state enough fish, seeking to turn on its head a debate triggered by CM Mamata Banerjee’s party portraying BJP as being “anti-non-vegetarian”. In Haldia, where he addressed the first of his three…
NEW DELHI: An Indian Army contingent has departed for Egypt to participate in the fourth edition of the India-Egypt Joint Special Forces Exercise — Cyclone-IV — scheduled to be conducted at Anshas from April 9-17.The exercise is a continuation of growing military cooperation between the two countries, and follows successful conduct of the previous edition…
