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NEW DELHI: In the middle of Laxmi Nagar market is a single room, easy to miss in the chaos, that holds a few chairs. Seated are young men and women from Delhi, UP and Haryana, busy polishing ‘Ikura desu ka’ and ‘tetsudatte kuremasu ka’, Japanese phrases that translate, respectively, to ‘how much is this’ and…

NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Monday expelled former MLA Mohammed Moquim from the party days after he wrote to Sonia Gandhi urging the removal of party president Mallikarjun Kharge on the grounds that “age is not on his side.” Congress cited “anti-party activities” as the reason behind his expulsion, however, it refrained from specifying…

New Delhi: Any university or higher education institution established without approval of Central or state govt would face a penalty of at least Rs 2 crore and immediate closure, as per the new higher education bill — Viksit Bharat Adhishthan Bill — which is likely to be introduced in Lok Sabha on Monday.The bill circulated…

Unaccounted Currency Notes Were Recovered From Official Residence New Delhi: The three-member inquiry committee headed by Supreme Court Judge Aravind Kumar has asked Justice Yashwant Varma, facing removal motion in the Lok Sabha in the aftermath of discovery of wads of burnt and unaccounted currency notes from his official residence, to respond to the memo…

NEW DELHI: In a boost to India’s rotary wing combat capabilities, the Army is set to get delivery of three remaining Apache AH-64 attack helicopters from US, while the Navy will commission its second squadron of MH-60R Seahawk submarine-hunting choppers this week.The induction of these much-delayed American helicopters will plug existing operational gaps but the…

New Delhi: In an important ruling, Supreme Court has said that a person employed on compassionate grounds to alleviate family difficulties because of death of a parent in harness cannot seek appointment to higher posts merely because they have the requisite qualifications for the same.A bench of Justices Rajesh Bindal and Manmohan on Friday reversed…

NEW DELHI: The Union cabinet’s approval for Atomic Energy Bill, officially titled the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025, which is set to be tabled in the winter session of Parliament, signals a huge policy shift in India’s atomic sector that is expected to accelerate civil nuclear energy…

ECs Will Pay When Cong Wins: Rahul NEW DELHI: Taking his months-long campaign of “vote chori” to its climax, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi on Sunday led a packed Ramlila Maidan rally to raise the slogan of “vote chor, gaddi chhod”, as he claimed that the Modi-led BJP is winning elections by stealing votes but “Narendra Modi-RSS…

NEW DELHI: In every organisation, be it government or private, increment in an employee’s salary is an annual affair. Not in Supreme Court, where CJIs, on the eve of retirement and irrespective of length of tenure, used discretionary powers to sanction multiple increments to a select few employees.Those who had been Chief Justice of India…

NEW DELHI: The standoff between the department of telecom (DoT) and regulator Trai regarding recommendations for satellite spectrum is intensifying, with the latter now raising objections to lower charges being sought for state-owned BSNL’s services.As differences between the two critical organisations come out openly over satellite spectrum charges and other areas such as subsidies, the…