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NEW DELHI: SC on Tuesday criticised 12 ’eminent’ persons who together filed a PIL “targeting” CMs of BJP-governed states for alleged hate speeches while making a plea for framing guidelines to restrain constitutional functionaries and bureaucrats from breaching fidelity to constitutional morality. Appearing for petitioners, senior advocate Kapil Sibal told a bench of Chief Justice…

Karnataka deputy CM and state Cong chief DK Shivakumar BENGALURU: Two dozen civic amenity sites across several urban local bodies in Karnataka were allotted to Congress Bhavan Trust to build party offices at the district and taluk levels, data from municipal administrations and urban development departments shows. Deputy CM DK Shivakumar, also state Congress chief,…

NEW DELHI: Tina Ambani, the wife of Anil Ambani of Reliance group, skipped her second date with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday. She did not appear at the agency’s headquarters here on a summons issued in connection with a money laundering probe. Tina was earlier summoned on Feb 9. Her husband has been summoned…

French President Emmanuel Macron is in Mumbai for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Defence, artificial intelligence, and critical minerals are key topics. President Emmanuel Macron extended an invitation to PM Modi to participate in the G7 Summit to be hosted by France in 2026. According to a joint statement, he invited India to participate…

Two Pakistani nationals arrested in Ambala after escaping from Jammu Juvenile Observation home AMBALA/JAMMU: Two Pakistan nationals who fled from a juvenile observation home in Jammu’s RS Pura area Monday were arrested 400km away at Ambala Cantonment railway station by Haryana STF.Mohammad Sana-Ullah, 20, of Jaatala village in Muzaffargarh district of Punjab, Pakistan, and 23-year-old…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government will revamp 400 km of road stretches by the end of the year, chief minister Rekha Gupta said on Tuesday. According to officials, more than 241 major roads have been identified for redevelopment under the government’s comprehensive road improvement project, at the total cost of Rs 802 crore. “The initiative…

NEW DELHI: Days after its announcement in the Budget, the agriculture ministry on Tuesday launched AI-enabled ‘Bharat-VISTAAR’ (Virtually Integrated System to Access Agricultural Resources) that will help farmers in farm-level decision-making by receiving date-driven customised digital advisory.Launched at a time when India is hosting the AI Impact Summit, Bharat-VISTAAR is a multilingual AI tool that…

French President Emmanuel Macron and PM Narendra Modi (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron in Mumbai and held bilateral talks to strengthen India-France relations, upgrading them to a “Special Global Strategic Partnership.” The two democracies announced a sweeping expansion of cooperation, unveiling more than 20 agreements.The…

NEW DELHI: Veteran leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Tuesday fired a fresh salvo at Congress leadership with party’s history to warn that the party has always thrived on internal dissent and suffered whenever it tried to suppress it.In a video released on his Youtube channel titled ‘No space for dissent in today’s Congress?’ the leader…

NEW DELHI: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Tuesday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the death of former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash in Baramati last month.A delegation of senior party leaders, including his wife Sunetra Pawar, NCP National Working President and MP Praful…