NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shama Mohamed has raised concerns over the law and order situation following the death of Angel Chakma, a student from Tripura in Dehradun.Referring to a video circulating online, she alleged rising threats against minorities and questioned the Prime Minister’s silence, urging the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognisance of the…
NEW DELHI: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has claimed that Beijing mediated several global conflicts, including the standoff between India and Pakistan in May following the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir.Speaking at the Symposium on the International Situation and China’s Foreign Relations on Tuesday, Wang said Beijing had taken an “objective and just…
LUCKNOW: The draft electoral rolls for special intensive revision (SIR) in Uttar Pradesh will be published on Jan 6, 2026 instead of the earlier scheduled date of Dec 31, UP chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa announced on Tuesday. From the same day, voters will be able to file claims and objections, with the window remaining…
DEHRADUN: The family of Anjel Chakma, the young Tripura native killed in Dehradun earlier this month, pushed back sharply against the city police chief’s public dismissal of racial slurs as a motive behind the murder – a claim central to the family’s version of events and backed, they say, by the firsthand account of Anjel’s…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said it is mandatory to grant a hearing to the victim while deciding bail to an accused under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, failing which the bail would be deemed legally unsustainable. Interpreting Section 15A(5) of the SC/ST (POA) Act, a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan…
Bengal SIR: Durjan Majhi, who died by suicide hours before SIR hearing; Jamat Ali, who died at home after getting a hearing notice; a young mother at a hearing venue with her 3-month-old child; 90-year-old Muktibala Paramanik being brought to a hearing centre PURULIA/TAMLUK: Families of two elderly voters who died on Monday, after receiving…
JALPAIGURI: Grief over former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia’s death on Tuesday travelled well beyond Dhaka, reaching Jalpaiguri, a north Bengal town nearly 434 km away, where memories of her early life still lingered. For the people here, it was a loss of one of their own.Khaleda Zia was born in Jalpaiguri in 1946 and spent…
A handshake and an embrace on Tuesday marked an end to the Dec 22 assault case at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) involving sacked senior resident Dr Raghav Narula and patient Arjun Panwar. Narula and Panwar, in the office of CM’s principal media adviser Naresh Chauhan, apologised to each other and to the people…
JAMMU: Security forces Tuesday launched cordon-and-search operations in the upper reaches of Kishtwar, Doda and Poonch districts in J&K after reported sightings of terror suspects. Official sources said two groups of Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists, each consisting of two to three ultras, were believed to be moving in the region, which has witnessed encounters in the past.“Acting…
SRINAGAR: For decades, scholars had tried to translate the Constitution of India into Kashmiri. That wait has now ended. The translation is now available on the Union law ministry’s website.President Droupadi Murmu released the volume in a red-bound edition decorated with Chinar leaves and traditional Kashmiri decorative art. Prof. Aejaz Mohammad Sheikh of University of…
