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NEW DELHI: The choice is between an artificially sustained painful life and peaceful death. As a medical board of four specialised doctors told Supreme Court about the condition of 31-year-old Harish Rana who has been living with 100% disability in a permanent vegetative state for 13 years and stressed the negligible chance of his recovery,…

NEW DELHI: More than nine months pregnant now, and visibly exhausted, Sunali Khatun’s voice carried a strange mix of tired resolve and simmering anger when she spoke to TOI on Thursday. “I’m tired from inside. The worst part is that despite showing all documents, no one listened to us,” she said, fighting back tears.The 26-year-old…

The Election Commission has adjusted the special intensive revision schedule for poll rolls in several states and a Union Territory. New deadlines for submitting enumeration forms and publishing draft electoral rolls have been set, with final rolls expected in February 2026. This revision aims to ensure all eligible voters are included. NEW DELHI: Following requests…

NEW DELHI: Clarifying the procedure for inquiry into a sexual harassment at workplace complaint, when accused and survivor belong to two different offices or departments, Supreme Court on Thursday ruled it will be the jurisdiction of the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) constituted at the workplace of the aggrieved woman to hold inquiry and not by…

The Supreme Court has denied former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea to suspend his 20-year jail sentence in a 1996 drug planting case. Bhatt, convicted by a Gujarat court, sought bail but the bench declined his request. The case involves allegations of framing a lawyer in Palanpur, with Bhatt accused of planting drugs to settle…

SRINAGAR: In Srinagar, for once, politics took a back seat on December 8, when the conversations revolved not around the tug-of-war between CM Omar Abdullah and LG Manoj Sinha, or another round of security briefings. In the J&K assembly corridors this Monday, lawmakers gathered instead to confront a deadlier political blind spot: Cancer among its…

CHANDIGARH: Dinesh Khatak, second-in-command (2-IC) of the 196 Battalion, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), has been honoured with the prestigious “Kendriya Grah Mantri Dakshata Padak” (Union Home Minister’s Efficiency Medal) for his outstanding service, discipline, and remarkable contribution to national security. The award, given by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), recognizes personnel who demonstrate…

NEW DELHI: A local court on Thursday sentenced one person to death and awarded life imprisonment to nine others for the murder committed during communal violence last year in Maharajganj town during a Durga idol immersion procession.The violence took place on October 13 last year, when 21-year-old Ramgopal Mishra was shot dead as a communal…

NEW DELHI: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Thursday directed officials to issue a notice to a contractor and withhold payments after detecting irregularities in the construction of the Reetkheri Link Road in Patiala district. During a surprise inspection of the under-construction road, the chief minister noted that the project did not meet the…

NEW DELHI: Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra co‑owners of the Goa nightclub Birch by Romeo Lane, have been detained by Thai authorities in Phuket and are set to be deported to India to face investigation in connection with a deadly fire that killed 25 people last week.Indian law enforcement agencies, working through diplomatic and international policing…