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Randeep Surjewala (PTI image) NEW DELHI: Not ruling out a nationwide movement against the Indo-US trade deal and accepting home minister Amit Shah’s challenge for a debate, Congress said the US production of jowar, maize, soybean and cotton is at such a higher scale that their import will completely overwhelm the farmers of India.AICC spokesman…

Representative image (AI-generated) NEW DELHI: A civil court in Karnataka on Monday sentenced three men to death for sexually assaulting an Israeli tourist and murdering a youth in Koppal district last year.The Gangavathi Civil Court pronounced the quantum of punishment, awarding capital punishment to the convict: Mallesh alias Handi Malla, Sharanabasava and Chaitanya Sai. The…

Jyoti Bhatt: The Face, 1971 Silver gelatin print (Copyright of Jyoti Bhatt, Courtesy of Subcontinent, Mumbai) Long before Photoshop, there was Jyoti Bhatt. The year was 1971. India’s premier art institution, the Lalit Kala Akademi, did not yet recognise photography as a fine art category. Artists who worked with the camera were routinely sidelined from…

NEW DELHI: Calling itself “old-fashioned”, the Supreme Court on Monday questioned how two people could indulge in a physical relationship before marriage, even if it is consensual. The bench comprising Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing the bail application of a man accused of rape on the pretext of marriage. It questioned…

Union defence minister Rajnath Singh (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday urged Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientists to complete the indigenous aero-engine project within five years, instead of taking decades as is conventionally expected.Stressing India’s strategic autonomy and the significance of mastering critical technologies at speed, the Union minister…

NEW DELHI: Assam Congress MP and former state unit chief Bhupen Borah on Monday withdrew his resignation after holding long discussions with the party’s central leadership, including Rahul Gandhi. Congress’s Assam in-charge Bhanwar Jitendra Singh, sharing about the resignation withdrawal by the Congress leader said that internal differences had been resolved through dialogue.Congress’s Assam in-charge…

Karti Chidambaram (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Karti Chidambaram dismissed social media claims linking him and his father, former Union minister P Chidambaram, to a scene in the recently released film Dhurandhar, calling the allegations a blend of “fact, fiction and WhatsApp forwards”.In an interview to ANI, the Sivaganga MP talked about his “cameo”…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain petitions seeking the registration of an FIR and the constitution of an SIT probe against Himanta Biswa Sarma over his ‘target-shooting’ video, and asked the petitioners to approach the Gauhati high court. The apex court questioned why the petitioners had not moved the Gauhati High…

NEW DELHI: A 9-judge bench of Supreme Court will hear the pleas relating to discrimination against women at religious places, including Kerala‘s Sabarimala Temple.The hearing is set to begin April 7 and proposed to be concluded on April 22. The composition of the 9-judge bench will be notified by the Chief Justice of India separately…

On paper, India’s prison crisis is usually flattened into neat averages. Occupancy hovers at 121%, budgets have inched up, new capacity added. The lived reality is less reassuring.In parts of the country, jails are operating without doctors, without counsellors, and with inmates left in limbo even as the barracks continue to fill.New data presented last…