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NEW DELHI: Nearly 23.6 lakh electors in West Bengal have declared themselves as one among at least six progeny of the same elector from the roll from last SIR undertaken in 2002, while the enumeration forms submitted by a whopping 85 lakh electors show a mismatch with father’s name.These electors with “logical discrepancies” in their…
NEW DELHI: Actor-turned-politician Vijay on Thursday launched a sharp attack on Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK, branding it an “evil force” and pitching his party, the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), as a “pure force” ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections. Addressing a large public meeting in Erode, Vijay framed the coming political battle as a direct…
NEW DELHI: An Air India Express flight from Jeddah to Kozhikode carrying 160 passengers made an emergency landing at Cochin International Airport on Thursday after a technical issue involving its landing gear and tyre failure, officials said.The Cochin International Airport Limited said the Air India Express flight IX 398 was diverted to Kochi as a…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday conducted a detailed review of preparations for the “Jan-Jan Ki Sarkar, Jan-Jan Ke Dwar” programme at the chief minister’s residence. He emphasised the need to ensure that welfare scheme benefits reach every eligible citizen under the “Administration Towards the Village” campaign.The chief minister directed officials to…
China is pressing ahead with a massive hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, a move that experts and Indian officials warn could seriously endanger water security, ecology and livelihoods downstream in India.As the river enters India as the Brahmaputra, any large-scale intervention upstream is seen as a direct risk to millions who…
Mumbai: Supreme Court this week stayed a Bombay high court order that enhanced a Mumbai family court’s monthly interim maintenance to a wife by seven times. HC had raised the amount from Rs 50,000 to Rs 3.5 lakh for a woman in Pune and observed the estranged husband approached court with “unclean hands and lack…
New Delhi: Announcing that protests against the move to end MGNREGA will start this week, civil society groups said Modi govt cannot use mere parliamentary majority to end a rural livelihood programme that resulted from extensive consultations across the board and forging of a national consensus that included BJP.Founding members of MGNREGA, intellectuals and advocacy…
New Delhi: The Centre has not notified the central list of OBCs for the last seven years since it granted constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes, which mandated that the list of backwards will in the future be approved by Parliament as against the present practice of publishing it through an executive…
‘What If Orders Are Palpably Dishonest?’ New Delhi: In a surprise public acknowledgement of corruption in judiciary, a Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant on Wednesday said there is a growing trend of judges passing a series of orders for extraneous considerations on the eve of their retirements.While hearing a petition filed by…
New Delhi: Cracking down on poor quality work by highway builders, govt will ban them from bidding for national highway projects for two years from the date of a “major incident”, such as bridge and reinforced wall collapses and severe road damage, reports Dipak Dash.TOI has learnt road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari has…
