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New Delhi: More than six years after its enactment sparked riots in Delhi, the Supreme Court on Thursday scheduled a four-day final hearing from May 5 on 243 petitions challenging the validity of Citizenship (Amendment) Act that provides a pathway for citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis and Christians who may reach India after fleeing…

Aaditya Thackeray (File photo) Mumbai: The battle for Maharashtra’s limited opposition seats intensified Thursday as Sena UBT’s Aaditya Thackeray virtually staked his party’s claim to the Maha Vikas Aghadi’s lone winnable seats in the upcoming Rajya Sabha and legislative council polls.Pointing to the current strength of the assembly, Aaditya suggested the arithmetic favours his party…

Nagpur: A four-year-old boy was accidentally locked overnight inside his school classroom in Nagpur’s Khaparkheda, sparking panic in his family. Himanshu Bagde, living just half a kilometre from the school, had wandered into the classroom while playing Wednesday, unaware that staff would later lock the premises without checking the rooms, reports Soumitra Bose. When Himanshu…

Rajnath Singh at ‘MILAN 2026’ Visakhapatnam: Defence minister Rajnath Singh urged global powers to confront fast-evolving, intertwined maritime risks through cooperation rooted in respect and reciprocity, as India opened its largest-ever multilateral naval exercise, Exercise MILAN-2026.“When our ships sail together, when our sailors train together, and when our commanders deliberate together, we build a shared…

Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Travel to Himachal Pradesh will become costlier with the cash-strapped govt announcing a steep hike in entry fees for vehicles. Notified under Himachal Pradesh Toll Act, 1975, the revised rates, aimed at strengthening finances, will come into effect on April 1. According to the new structure, the entry fee…

V Umashankar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Mere awareness drives or campaigns will not be enough to reduce violations of road traffic rules and road crashes; rather, the “certainty of enforcement” will have a greater deterrent impact, Union road transport secretary V Umashankar said on Thursday while sharing details of the recently notified e-challan rules. Speaking…

Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project Dam on the Chenab river SRINAGAR: Operations were suspended at the 450MW stage 1 Baglihar hydropower project on the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir after it got flooded two days ago.As water entered the project’s machine room, engineers immediately halted power generation to prevent damage to critical electro-mechanical components. The…

Vice President CP Radhakrishnan with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor (Image/X) NEW DELHI: Vice President CP Radhakrishnan on Thursday lamented that contributions of Indian philosophers and social reformers like Sree Narayana Guru have not been adequately recorded in international languages, which has created a gap in global academic discourse.Releasing a book on Narayana Guru by Congress…

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Thursday asked 22 states and Union Territories including Delhi to complete preparatory work related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) at the earliest as the exercise is “expected to start from April”.Once the exercise is completed, all states and UTs will be covered.In a letter to the chief electoral…

NEW DELHI: The ministry of civil aviation on Thursday said that a preliminary report into the Learjet crash in Baramati that killed former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others will be made public within 30 days of the accident.In a statement issued through the Press Information Bureau (PIB), the ministry reiterated that…