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‘Chennai shouldn’t alienate Delhi’: SC tells Tamil Nadu to reconsider opposition to Navodaya schools NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Tamil Nadu government to comply with its December 15, 2025 order to identify land in every district for establishing Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, while urging the state and Centre to resolve their differences over…

Manipur violence: Supreme Court seeks report on 25 unnatural deaths in relief camps NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Manipur government to submit a comprehensive report on 25 unnatural deaths of internally displaced persons reported in relief camps during the 2023 ethnic violence, including an alleged sexual assault case.A bench headed by…

NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday hit out at Pakistan at the UN Security Council, saying Islamabad had provided a “permissive environment” to the “architects” of the 9/11 attacks and continues to provide space and support to terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting, India’s Permanent Representative P Harish recalled…

NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 76th birthday and credited him for strengthening “special and privileged” strategic partnership between New Delhi and Moscow.Putin also thanked PM Modi for the warm and cordial welcome and hospitality extended to him and the Russian delegation during my visit to…

File photo: Brics leaders during a joint tree plantation initiative amid the 18th BRICS Summit, at the Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs has rejected social media posts claiming that multiple world leaders fell sick after attending the Brics summit in New Delhi, warning against “malicious posts” circulating online.The…

Union MoS Jitendra Singh speaks during the launch of the Special Campaign 6 Monitoring portal to track the implementation of the campaign aimed at institutionalising Swachhata and reducing pendency across government offices, in New Delhi. (Photo: ANI) NEW DELHI: Launching the dedicated web-portal for the sixth edition of govt’s ‘special campaign’ to declutter govt offices,…

NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah backed Centre’s decision to introduce 0.4 percent merchant discount rate on UPI payments above Rs 2,000, saying that “running a UPI system” is not cheap.While talking to reporters, Omar said that people don’t appreciate what they “get for free.”“Not everyone is charged. First of all, person-to-person…

After petitioning SC on Aug 25 raising questions about the judgement, govt has now asked CAT to modify its Aug 19 order NEW DELHI: Centre has begun to disentangle itself from the seemingly contradictory positions it has taken before Supreme Court and Central Administrative Tribunal on the implementation of the March 11 Rohit Nathan judgement…

Jarange said it was not possible to continue a rally tour while observing an indefinite hunger strike. NEW DELHI: Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil on Thursday called off his 20-day-old hunger strike and gave the Maharashtra government three months to consider his demands, news agency PTI reported.The decision came after Jarange addressed a large…

Delhi had a season’s rainfall surplus of 8% in a meteorological subdivision (Haryana) NEW DELHI: The capital defied the odds this monsoon. As of Sept 16, Delhi had a season’s rainfall surplus of 8% in a meteorological subdivision (Haryana) that’s reeling under a 23% deficit and a region (northwest India) that has logged a 10%…