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NEW DELHI: An analysis by Association for Democratic Reforms shows that the 10 electoral trusts that declared receiving contributions in FY 2024-25 got a total of Rs 3,826 crore from corporates and individuals, and distributed almost the equivalent amount to various political parties. BJP accounted for 82.5% (Rs 3,157.6 crore) of the total donations received…

NEW DELHI: India has the volume to support food security of many other countries, but the full potential of the food processing sector has not been tapped yet, food processing minister Chirag Paswan said on Friday, while emphasising the need to take this sector deeper into the rural India.Paswan said that in the food processing…

NEW DELHI: Can a married man in a live-in relationship be prosecuted for dowry harassment on the complaint of a woman with whom he was in an extra-marital affair, even though the law specifies that only a wife can make such a complaint against her husband and his relatives?A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay…

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday appointed ex-IPS officer N K Mishra and ex-IRS officer Pratap Singh as special observers for West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, respectively, tasked with overseeing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral roll as well as the preparedness and conduct of impending assembly poll in the two states.Polls…

NEW DELHI: India is in a “superb position” in a highly fragmented geopolitical world, as the fastest-growing economy with the scale, stability and technological ambition to help shape the next global order, Martin Sorrell, chairman of S4 Capital said on Friday.“So, India is in the box seat for two reasons. In that fragmented world, picking…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday held that telecom companies cannot claim ownership over spectrum allocated to them by govt and the natural resource cannot be subject to insolvency and liquidation process of a bankrupt telecom company.A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and A S Chandurkar rejected the plea of banks, which submitted that…

JAMMU: Police arrested two cross-border drug peddlers associated with a Pakistan-based drone-dropped narcotics module in J&K’s Kathua district and seized about 150g of heroin from them. Kathua Police registered a case and booked the duo under the NDPS Act.Police received information about an episode of drone-dropping along the J&K-Punjab border near Kathua’s Nagri area and…

JAMMU: In the J&K assembly, BJP members miss no opportunity to corner the Omar Abdullah govt over a host of issues. Outside the House, however, some of the party MLAs generously praised the chief minister on Friday over his budgetary allocation for the annual Amarnath Yatra.“Our CM’s move to allocate Rs 180 crore for Amarnath…

Arundhati Roy (File photos) NEW DELHI: Author Arundhati Roy has announced that she will not attend the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), where a film she wrote nearly four decades ago is scheduled to be screened in the festival’s Classics section. Roy’s screenplay In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, written 38 years ago, was…

NEW DELHI: Coal and mines minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursday launched the second round of auctions for exploration licences covering 11 blocks of critical and deep-seated minerals across eight states. The licences will allow exploration of rare earth minerals in Telangana, Rajasthan and Odisha, along with diamond, vanadium, titanium and other minerals in additional…