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The Indian and the Assam governments on Friday moved the Supreme Court with a plea that seeks extension of the July 31 deadline for coming out with the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam. Moving the plea, India’s Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told an apex court bench headed by...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress is among the three political parties which have been asked by India’s Election Commission to show cause why notices why their national party status should not be scrapped after their dismal performance in recent parliamentary el...
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday invited suggestions from people for his Independence Day speech to be delivered from the ramparts of the Red Fort in Delhi on August 15, saying it will allow thoughts of the common man to be heard by the entire nation. "I am delighted to invite you ...
India’s Supreme Court on Friday asked the special judge conducting trial in the Babri Masjid demolition case, involving BJP veterans like L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati, to deliver the judgement within nine months. A bench of Justices R F Nariman and Surya Kant said the record...
Sports,Cricket
India’s batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, South Africa’s retired pace ace Allan Donald and former Australia woman fast bowler Cathryn Fatzprick were on Thursday inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame at a ceremony in London.Tendulkar, the most prolific batsman in history, was inducte...
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that the government would identify illegal immigrants staying in any part of the country and deport them as per international law. He said this in the Rajya Sabha while replying to a supplementary question put by Samajwadi Party lawmaker Javed Ali Kha...
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday expelled its Uttarakhand state legislator Pranav Singh Champion from party-fold for six years, days after a purported video of his brandishing guns and dancing at a house party became viral on social media. Uttarakhand BJP chief Ajay Bhatt had...
Three persons were killed and over 40 feared trapped as a century-old four-storey building collapsed in Mumbai's congested Dongri locality on Tuesday.Eight people have been rescued so far from under the debris by three large teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) looking for surviv...
A special judge hearing the politically-sensitive Babri Masjid demolition case involving senior BJP leaders L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and others, on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking six more months to conclude the trial in the case. The special judge, in a letter written in May, has info...
Seeking to give more teeth to the anti-terror body National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Lok Sabha, the lower House of Indian parliament, on Monday passed a Bill to allow it to probe terrorist acts against Indians and Indian interests abroad. The amendments will also allow the NIA to probe cyberc...
At least 12 Indian troops and a civilian were killed when a four-storey building collapsed in Himachal Pradesh' Solan district, officials said on Monday. Twenty-eight people were injured after the building, which housed a restaurant, gave in on the Nahan-Kumarhatti Road on Sunday evening followi...
The Indian Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat said on Saturday that any misadventure by the Pakistan army would be repelled with punitive response and no act of terror would go unpunished. “The Pakistan army, time and again, resorts to misadventure, either through state-sponsored terrorism or intrusio...
India’s Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said there should not be imposition of any language and maintained that there must not be opposition to any language at the same time. “Languages must unite us in the cause for inclusive and sustainable development and must not end up a...
Breaking new ground in South Asian sub-regional cooperation, a ship of the Inland Waterways Authority of India, carrying 1,000 tonnes of crushed stone from Bhutan to be delivered in Bangladesh, was flagged off on Friday from Dhubri port on the Brahmaputra in Assam and headed to Narayanganj. This is ...
Russia has promised all assistance to India's first human space flight mission 'Gaganyaan' in 2022 as Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held talks with Dmitry Rogozin, Director-General of Russia's space agency ROSCOSMOS here. "There have been frequent contacts between ...
The Indian government has cleared a slew of amendments to an existing gender-neutral law against sexual abuse of children introducing the provision of death penalty in cases of aggravated sexual offences and more stringent penal provisions aimed at clamping down on child pornography. The 14 amendmen...
India’s Supreme Court has said it would give a final hearing in August on petitions challenging the federal government’s decision to deport illegal Rohingya immigrants back to Myanmar. The top court also has before it petitions which support the government's stand to deport over 40,0...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said India and Bangladesh should resolve the long-standing issue of sharing waters of the Atreyee River, the lifeline of South Dinajpur district in the Indian state.She said the flow of the Atreyee water into India had been “artificially restricte...
India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED), which probes money laundering cases, has summoned Bangla film super star Prosenjit Chatterjee to appear before it on July 19 in connection with the Rose Valley chit fund scam and association with the company and its chairperson Gautam Kundu. The ED questio...
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