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NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday offered a point-by-point rebuttal over the allegation of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over vote theft in the Lok Sabha. During the ongoing debate on electoral reforms in the Parliament, Shah took a jibe at the Congress leader’s “nuclear bomb” press conference said that his press conferences…

NEW DELHI: The Booth Level Officers (BLOs), who have been a silent and almost invisible part of India’s electoral machinery for decades, have suddenly found themselves at the centre of attention. The Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has placed them at the centre of one of the largest verification drives…

NEW DELHI: One of the prime witnesses in the Sandeshkhali attack case, Bholanath Ghosh, was critically injured on Wednesday after a truck collided with his car in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.Local eyewitnesses claimed that the truck, moving in the opposite direction of the car, rammed into the private vehicle at breakneck speed, crushed…

NEW DELHI: Forty-four former Supreme Court and high court judges have condemned what they described as a “motivated campaign” targeting Chief Justice of India Surya Kant over his comments in the Rohingya migrant case, saying critics had twisted a routine judicial query into accusations of bias, according to a statement.“Judicial proceedings can and should be…

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday declined to accept the ‘Veer Savarkar Award’, calling the organisers “irresponsible” for announcing his name without him having agreed to receive it.Tharoor was named among the first winners of the newly instituted Veer Savarkar International Impact Award 2025, to be presented by Highrange Rural Development Society India….

NEW DELHI: Noting land acquisition as one of the major issues affecting the timely development of utility-scale solar projects, a parliamentary panel on energy recommended the creation of a ‘single-window clearance mechanism’ to bring all stakeholders from the Centre and states together for easy identification of bottlenecks and their time-bound resolution.The Parliamentary Standing Committee on…

Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam NEW DELHI: Analysing the alleged inflammatory speeches of Sharjeel Imam, being prosecuted under UAPA in connection with the Northeast Delhi riots, Supreme Court said Tuesday his speech on blocking “Chicken’s Neck”, or Siliguri Corridor, was objectionable, but his lawyer pointed out other parts of the speech in which he appealed…

A Madhya Pradesh couple’s wedding video became a breeding ground for trolls after it was bombarded with racist and misogynistic comment because of the difference in their skin colour.The couple had been dating for 11 years and got married last month.Images and videos from their vibrant wedding captured the couple taking part in traditional rituals…

Miami voters have elected Democrat Eileen Higgins as the city’s first female mayor and the first Democrat to hold the office in nearly three decades. In Tuesday’s runoff, Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, a former city manager backed by former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.“Together, we turned the…

The data reveals a shifting landscape where private banks and digital channels draw the most customer ire, while territories like Chandigarh and Delhi report disproportionately high complaint loads per lakh accounts. India’s banking system saw a surge in customer grievances in FY25, with private sector banks accounting for the highest share of complaints. Issues linked…