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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said laxity by banks resulting in siphoning of money from people’s accounts due to cyber fraud, including digital arrests, counts as deficiency of service and emphasised that govt and regulators must devise a mechanism to ensure that an alarm goes off when scammers attempt to con account holders,…

New Delhi: Taking note of an increasingly familiar pattern of gangsters moving across jurisdictions in Delhi and its surroundings, Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to consider enacting a legislation empowering a single agency to pursue organised crime syndicate members in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR) states unhindered and produce them before a…

New Delhi: The draft electoral roll for West Bengal published on Tuesday, along with those for four other states/UTs under Phase 2 of special intensive revision (SIR) has 7.1 crore electors after 7.6% (58 lakh) of its 7.6-crore electorate as of Oct 29, 2025, was found to be dead, shifted/absent or enrolled at multiple places….

Kerala Fest Claims Centre Refused Clearance; I&B Min Points To Norms Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi: The ongoing 30th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) plunged into a crisis following the Centre’s refusal to grant censor exemption certificates to several films, including Soviet auteur Sergei Eisenstein’s black and white classic, ‘Battleship Potemkin’, leading to cancellations, uncertainty in scheduling…

NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday protested both inside and outside Parliament against the “anti-people” G RAM G bill, with its MP Shashi Tharoor – who the party has accused of being soft on BJP – taking a dig at the governmentt in Lok Sabha by recalling an old Bollywood number – “dekho o deewano (tum)…

Pune/Nashik: Conviction over securing a flat under a 10% EWS quota in 1995 by showing lower income has put a question mark over Manikrao Kokate’s continuation as an MLA and as a Maharashtra cabinet minister. A Nashik sessions court upheld Tuesday a Feb 20 trial court judgment convicting and sentencing the sports minister and NCP…

NEW DELHI: Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Tuesday announced that all private vehicles below BS-VI standards and not registered in Delhi will be barred from entering the capital from Thursday. This restriction will continue till stages III and IV of the Graded Response Action Plan (Grap) are in force.No vehicle without a PUC…

New Delhi: As hill cities and major tourist destinations face the challenge of tackling mammoth landfills of plastic and other municipal waste, Centre has decided to roll out Clean Himalayan Cities Initiative soon to provide financial and technical assistance. Speaking at a workshop organised by the housing and urban affairs ministry, experts working in these…

NEW DELHI: Gujarat government on Tuesday imposed an immediate ban on the storage, sale, and distribution of rolling papers and pre-rolled cones, citing health risks, the state home department said.These ultra-thin paper sheets and cones are commonly sold at grocery stores and paan shops across the state. They are mainly used by tobacco smokers to…

Conclave on Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam – Civilisational Dialogue was organised jointly by the Centre for Studies in International Relations (CSIR), Jamia Millia Islamia, and MAKAIS, Kolkata. The event took place on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, and included an inaugural session followed by three plenary discussions.In a special address, Sunil Ambekar, Akhil Bhartiya Prachar Pramukh of RSS,…