NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday outlined three key demands of the INDIA bloc over alleged irregularities in voter rolls, calling for Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, an immediate halt to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and a return to paper ballots.In a post on X, Kharge accused…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses rally in Goa NEW DELHI: Four cars and an ambulance travelling behind Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s convoy collided on the Lucknow-Sultanpur highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Haliyapur area in Sultanpur district on Monday.The vehicles were not part of Rahul’s convoy. No serious injuries were reported in the accident.The leader of opposition…
Police complaint filed against Kharge over controversial PM Modi remark (Photo: ANI). NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday lodged a police complaint in Patna against Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the complainant demanding an apology within 24 hours.The complaint was filed by BJP worker Krishna…
File photo: Targeting PM Modi further, Kharge called the prime minister a “habitual liar” PATNA/NEW DELHI: Congress party president Mallikarjun Kharge’s remark about PM Narendra Modi’s father raised a furore in BJP on Sunday, with the party announcing a nationwide protest on Monday against Kharge’s “indecent and offensive” remarks.Addressing a gathering at Bapu Sabhagar in…
Former SC judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul alleges in his book that ex-CJI D Y Chandrachud was overly deferential to the government on judicial appointments NEW DELHI: Former CJI D Y Chandrachud was more deferential to the govt than necessary in matters of judicial appointments, former SC judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul has said in…
File photo: Supreme Court NEW DELHI: The pendency of the case regarding the OBC creamy layer in Supreme Court will not affect the seniority of successful candidates of 2025 batch even though their service allocation and foundation course are still to be finalised, official sources said on Sunday.DoPT officials said, “The department and all training…
External affairs minister S. Jaishankar (file photo) Quad foreign ministers will meet this week in Atlanta on the sidelines of a G20 ministerial gathering, official sources confirmed, signalling the strategic forum remains resilient despite recent India-US diplomatic turbulence. This will be the second meeting of the grouping this year, after the event India hosted in…
Multi-agency raids in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur exposed over Rs 270 crore in narco-hawala transactions NEW DELHI: In a major crackdown on cross-border narco-hawala networks in northeastern states, multi-agency search operations by at least 38 teams at 38 locations simultaneously, revealed illicit transactions of over Rs 270 crore, and led to arrest of six people…
Massive fire broke out at Shiv Market, opposite Jammu Railway Station NEW DELHI: Around 35 to 40 shops were completely gutted after a massive fire broke out at Shiv Market, opposite Jammu Railway Station, in the early hours of Monday. No casualties or injuries have been reported so far, while fire and emergency services teams…
File photo: Election Commision of India NEW DELHI: Election Commission has declined to disclose the name and version of the software it used to identify errors and anomalies in voter rolls during SIR, saying the information was related to “commercial confidence, trade secrets and intellectual property” and, thus, exempt under RTI Act. The reply, dated…
