NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Election Commission (EC) to accept Aadhaar as the 12th prescribed document for establishing the identity of voters in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.At present, Bihar SIR allows voters to submit 11 types of identity documents along with their enumeration forms.A…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday launched a scathing attack against opposition’s vice-presidential nominee Sudarshan Reddy for meeting Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad, who is convicted in fodder scam case.During a press conference, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad accused the former Supreme Court judge of “hypocrisy” for meeting a convict while also claiming…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s expected visit to Raipur on November 1, 2025, to inaugurate the ‘Amrit Rajat Mahotsav 2025’ – commemorating 25 years of Chhattisgarh’s formation – the state government has intensified its mission to give Left-wing extremism a final push and is also preparing to bring in major police reforms…
National Investigation Agency (PTI image) NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday carried out searches at 22 locations across five states and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a terror conspiracy case.Officials said the raids covered eight locations in Bihar, one each in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, two…
Navy also has initial nod for indigenous construction of 74 warships & vessels NEW DELHI : India is steadily steaming ahead to have a stronger and networked blue-water Navy with over 200 warships and submarines by 2035 to protect its vast maritime interests and tackle the fast-expanding collusive threat from China and Pakistan on the…
NEW DELHI: An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam on Monday.According to J&K Police, the encounter started in Guddar forest after a joint team of Army, CRPF and local police received specific intelligence.“Based on specific intelligence, an encounter has started in the Guddar forest of the Kulgam. SOG…
White House trade advisor Peter Navarro on Monday claimed that “Indian special interests” were trying to “interfere” in the US domestic dialogue with “lies about India buying Russian oil.” This came after he slammed Elon Musk after his social media platform put up a fact-check note on Navarro’s post regarding New Delhi’s purchase of oil…
KOLKATA: About 91% of 3.2 lakh enrolled candidates appeared for West Bengal SSC’s School Level Selection Test (SLST) for recruitment of assistant teachers for classes 9 and 10 under tight security Sunday, reports Poulami Roy. The exam was held to fill vacancies after Supreme Court on April 3 cancelled the appointment of 25,573 teachers and…
NEW DELHI: Congress ON Sunday said Trai has rejected its application to send SMSes to its workers in Maharashtra to inform them about a documentary about how the Maharashtra 2024 elections were “stolen”, with the telecom regulatory authority reportedly telling the party the messages could not be sent as they were “protest content”.Congress data analytics…
INDORE: A police station in-charge died while two of his colleagues are missing after their vehicle plunged into the swollen Kshipra river near Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh late Saturday while they were searching for a missing woman, reports Karishma Kotwal.Unhel police station chief Ashok Sharma, 58, was travelling with sub-inspector Madanlal Ninama, 56, and woman…
