India

New Delhi: Election Commission Tuesday told Supreme Court that the Constitution and the Representation of the People Act empowered and enabled EC to devise a distinct procedure for special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and accused petitioner NGO, which has challenged the validity of the exercise, of having a track record of attempting to…

New Delhi: The home ministry on Tuesday countered the “deliberate misinformation campaign” by the opposition painting the govt as non-serious about caste enumeration, based merely on the Census 2027 “houselisting” questionnaire notified last week, despite govt’s well-known public stand that caste will be captured in the second stage of the census, that is, population enumeration…

New Delhi: Suggesting amendments to penal laws to provide harsh punishment to acid attack convicts, Supreme Court on Tuesday opined that the present reform-oriented sentencing system must not apply to such convicts and their properties should be auctioned to compensate acid attack survivors.After acid attack survivor-petitioner Shaheen Malik narrated her pains, legal fight for 16…

NEW DELHI: After co-chairing the India-EU summit PM Narendra Modi said India and the EU were natural partners in a changing world and remained committed to strengthening multilateralism. However, Russia’s Ukraine war remained a vexing issue as the EU said it was counting on Modi’s support to end the conflict.European Council President Antonio Costa said…

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday said that the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code in the state has ushered in a new era of women’s empowerment. Addressing a programme marking the first anniversary of UCC implementation, celebrated as ‘UCC Day’, Dhami said that discrimination, inequality, and injustice prevailed in society due to…

Shashi Tharoor (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who recently missed a crucial party meeting, sparking speculation about his future with the grand old party, missed another one on Tuesday, but stated he received the invitation at a very short notice, by when he had already made plans for a visit to Dubai.“As…

PM Narendra Modi and EU President Ursula von der Leyen (Image/X) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen drew wide attention on social media after they were seen twinning in a traditional Eri silk scarf during her visit to India. The silk scarf, also known as Eri silk…

Rajeev Gowda and Amitabh Dubey (File photo) NEW DELHI: Accusing the Modi govt of fudging data to present a rosy picture, Congress on Tuesday expressed concern over the state of the Indian economy in the wake of what it called is questionable growth and production coupled with rising inequality and dimming welfare.Ahead of the President’s…

NEW DELHI: India advised Pakistan to “introspect” on some of its recent moves, including the 27th Amendment that gave “life-time immunity to its chief of defence forces” Asim Munir.“It could start by asking itself how it has let its armed forces engineer a constitutional coup through the 27th amendment and giving life-time immunity to its…

NEW DELHI: The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on Tuesday rescued 60 people, including 40 soldiers of a Rashtriya Rifles unit, after they were stranded in a snowbound area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district following heavy snowfall.The high-altitude rescue and road restoration operation was carried out under Project Sampark at Chatergala Pass on the Bhaderwah–Chatergala…