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NEW DELHI: The death toll in the explosion at a firecracker factory in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district has risen to five after two more injured workers died during treatment, officials said on Thursday. Another 23 people are still undergoing treatment at hospitals in Dewas and Indore.Dewas Additional District Magistrate Sanjeev Jain said the two workers,…

NEW DELHI: Delhi HC on Thursday sought the Centre and Delhi govt’s stand on a plea by Indian National Congress seeking execution of a sale deed in the party’s favour for its former headquarters at 7, Jantar Mantar Road.Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav issued notice to authorities but refused to pass any interim order. Even as…

NEW DELHI: Hours after former chief minister Mamata Banerjee appeared in an advocate’s attire before Calcutta high court on Thursday, the Bar Council of India (BCI) asked the West Bengal Bar Council to furnish details of her enrolment as an advocate, whether the licence to practise was kept suspended during her tenure as CM, and…

BRICS: EAM slams unilateral sanctions, says pressure can’t replace diplomacy (Image credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting began Thursday with external affairs minister S Jaishankar denouncing “increasing resort’ to unilateral coercive measures and sanctions inconsistent with international law and the UN Charter. Delivering India’s national statement, Jaishankar said such “unjustifiable” measures, which…

NEW DELHI: At least 117 people have lost their lives across Uttar Pradesh after relentless rain, lightning and thunderstorms battered several parts of the state over the past 36 to 48 hours. The incident has prompted the Uttar Pradesh government to announce compensation of Rs 4 lakh each for the families of the deceased.Uttar Pradesh…

NEW DELHI: The Congress finally ended Kerala’s suspense on Wednesday. Ten days after the UDF’s historic mandate, VD Satheesan was named chief minister. For a party that had just won 63 seats, with the UDF alliance winning 102, the delay was not about numbers or coalition arithmetic. It was about the Congress being unable to…

NEW DELHI: Questioning the appointment process for chief election commissioner/election commissioners where a panel of PM, a Cabinet minister and the leader of opposition, pick the candidate, Supreme Court on Thursday said that the present system allows the govt to appoint a person of its choice as two out of three member would favour it…

Judging excellence in maternal healthcare is not like judging most things. The numbers, whether around delivery volumes, success rates, bed counts, etc., are the starting point, far from the verdict. When the jury members for the Times Future of Maternity Awards 2026 convened for final evaluation of nominees across 13 categories, the tougher questions were…

NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court on Thursday instructed the newly-elected BJP governmemt in West Bengal to “strictly maintain law and order at the ground level”. The order came after Mamata Banerjee told the court that the police had remained inactive during the post-poll violence, while also asserting that “Bengal is not a bulldozer state”…

NEET-UG paper leak: CBI arrests two more accused in Maharashtra; tally rises to 7 (Image credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested two more accused persons and conducted searches at 14 locations across the country in the last 24 hours in connection with alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak.The…