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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear the bail plea of the father of the 17-year-old involved in the Porsche car crash in Pune, who is facing prosecution for manipulating the blood sample test of his son by allegedly replacing it with his own blood sample. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna…

New Delhi: The Union home ministry Wednesday formally notified the timeline for the first phase of Census 2027 — involving housing and houselisting operations — declaring that it shall be conducted over a 30-day period, to be specified by each state or Union territory, between April 1 and Sept 30 this year. Invoking its powers…

NEW DELHI: Around 100 international delegates representing 42 election management bodies (EMBs) from across the world will gather here to discuss ‘democracy for an inclusive, resilient and sustainable world’ at the India International Conference on Democracy and Election Management (IICDEM) to be hosted by Election Commission from Jan 21 to 23.The three-day conference, being organised…

PATNA: Customers with their faces covered will not be allowed inside jewellery shops in Bihar. The decision was taken by the Bihar unit of all india jewellers and gold federation at a meeting with the district jewellers’ associations on Tuesday, citing security reasons as gold and silver prices have been on the rise, federation president…

KOLKATA: A hippopotamus at Alipore zoo, unable to move probably because of a neurological disease or a leg injury, has stayed put in a pool of water in its enclosure for the past fortnight and refused to leave even in the evening for its night sheltera sharp departure from its normal routine.Zoo authorities have set…

SRINAGAR: The Omar Abdullah govt on Tuesday rejected the demand of statehood for Jammu region, calling it “unviable”, and said it was instead time for Ladakh to be reunited with Jammu and Kashmir.“J&K was a full-fledged state earlier. It was then bifurcated into Ladakh and J&K. Those who split J&K state now want to divide…

SRINAGAR: Omar Abdullah govt in J&K is indifferent to the plight of the people, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti told a gathering on the tenth death anniversary of her father and PDP founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed at his mausoleum in Anantnag district’s Bijbehara on Wednesday.“I am living for my father’s dream of seeing the people of…

NEW DELHI: The govt has approved a Rs 1,800 crore proposal for setting up a new cylindrical mould watermark banknote (CWBN) line with an annual capacity to produce 6,000 tonnes of high-security, durable paper, which is used for printing currency notes, non-judicial stamp papers and passports.The move is aimed at meeting the increasing demand for…

NEW DELHI: Vice President CP Radhakrishnan on Wednesday said that democratic institutions derive their strength from trust and moral responsibility, not from procedures alone.Radhakrishnan was speaking in New Delhi at the release of a book titled, ‘Sing, Dance and Lead: Leadership Lessons from the Life of Srila Prabhupada.’“Leadership, particularly in public life, is the force…

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh’s education sector has witnessed a far-reaching transformation over the past eight years, marked by expanded digital access, improved infrastructure, higher enrolment, rapid growth in skill education and structural reforms in higher education.Government data indicate that sustained policy focus since 2017 has led to measurable improvements across school, secondary, technical and university…