The Congress has ripped into the government’s decision to tweak an election rule that makes it harder to obtain electronic documents like CCTV and webcasting footage, and video recordings of candidates. Based on a recommendation by the Election Commission, the Union Law Ministry had Friday amended Rule 93(2)(a) of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961,…
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Navya Haridas has moved the Kerala High Court challenging the election of Congress Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in the last month’s bypoll. Ms Gandhi Vadra made her successful maiden electoral debut from the Wayanad seat after her brother and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi vacated…
Mohali building collapse: A short three-second video has emerged capturing the moments before a four-storey building collapsed in Punjab’s Mohali last evening. At least two people have died in the collapse. Indian Army and National Disaster Response Team (NDRF) teams are working round-the-clock to rescue several others feared trapped under the rubble for over 17…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi received Kuwait’s highest honour ‘The Order of Mubarak Al Kabeer’ today. This was the 20th international honour given to PM Modi by a country. The ‘Order of Mubarak Al Kabeer’ is the knighthood order of Kuwait. It is awarded to heads of state, foreign sovereigns, and to members of foreign royal…
As organisers work to establish India as the next top music festival destination, recent concerts have been overshadowed by mismanagement, with reports of chaos, ticket scams, overpriced water, and poor network connectivity taking centre stage in public discussions. One concertgoer, Akassh Ashok Gupta, who attended Bryan Adams’ performance in Gurgaon, has publicly criticised the event…
Moviegoers watching a late-night show of “Pushpa 2” at a multiplex in Maharashtra’s Nagpur witnessed a real-life action scene as police rushed into the cinema hall and arrested a man wanted in murder and drug cases. The dramatic arrest of Vishal Meshram shortly after midnight on Thursday left the packed audience stunned, but police assured…
Following the reopening of a Shiv-Hanuman temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district after a gap of 46 years, an excavation team of the Archeological Survey of India has unearthed a stepwell in the Chandausi area of the district. Sambhal’s District Magistrate Rajendra Pensiya on Sunday confirmed that a ‘baoli’ with an area of 400 square…
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced the commencement of registrations for two new welfare schemes — Mahila Samman Yojana and Sanjeevani Yojana — starting December 23. Speaking at a press conference alongside Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, Kejriwal outlined the…
Four hundred and sixteen people have been arrested in the third phase of the crackdown against child marriage in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday. The crackdown was launched on the night of December 21-22, he said. The police have registered 335 cases and the arrested will be produced in court on…
In a rare display of emotion in public, Supreme Court judge Justice BV Nagarathna fought back tears while remembering her parents and her mother’s lifelong support for her father, former Chief Justice of India ES Venkataramiah. Justice Nagarathna, who is in line to be the country’s first women chief justice, was addressing a gathering at…
