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NEW DELHI: A woman from Bihar’s Siwan district has questioned why opposition MPs used her name in their protest against the Election Commission’s (EC) voter roll revision. Minta Devi, whose name and age were printed on white T-shirts worn by INDIA bloc leaders, said she was unaware of the move until days later. She also…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday reiterated that it can set aside the results of the entire special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral bonds in poll-bound Bihar – in as late as September – if its illegality is established.While hearing a bunch of petitions against poll body’s exercise, a bench of justices Surya Kant…
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday launched several information and communications technology (ICT)-enabled services. These included the Digital Uttarakhand app, 66 websites built on the Secure, Scalable, and Sugamya (S3Waas) platform, a GIS-based web application for real-time tracking of garbage collection vehicles in urban areas, AI innovation in the…
Chhattisgarh: Two DRG personnel injured in ongoing encounter with Naxals in Bijapur BIJAPUR: Two District Reserve Guard (DRG) personnel were injured during an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district and are reported to be out of danger, police said on Tuesday. According to the police, the DRG team had launched an anti-Naxal operation in…
A four-member team from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has begun investigating shocking allegations of mass secret burials in Dharmasthala, Belthangady taluk. The probe, launched by the NHRC on its own, started on Tuesday with visits to key local institutions, including the Gram Panchayat office, the local police station, the Dharmasthala temple premises, and…
NEW DELHI: Five Congress MPs including party general secretary KC Venugopal on Tuesday wrote to civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, urging a “comprehensive and time-bound investigation” into what they described as “serious safety lapses” on an Air India flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi on August 10.In his letter, co-signed by other MPs on board…
NEW DELHI: The Times of India, the world’s most-read English-language daily, has joined the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) — a cross-industry community of over 4,500 members including civil society, media, and technology companies, founded by Adobe in 2019. The CAI is focused on promoting media transparency through an open, extensible approach and free, open-source tools…
File photo NEW DELHI: After Pakistan army chief Asim Munir issued a nuclear threat, Bilawal Bhutto threatened India over the suspension of Indus Water Treaty. Bhutto, a former Pakistani foreign minister, accused India of inflicting “great damage” on Pakistan and called for national unity against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.“United as one, we must raise our…
A fire broke out in the fourth engine of an incoming international cargo flight from Kuala Lumpur during landing at the city airport on Tuesday, according to official sources cited by PTI. Although no emergency landing was required, the pilots safely brought the aircraft down, as per the report.Fire tenders on standby quickly extinguished the…
SRINAGAR: J&K is in the grip of a food safety scare after officials seized more than 11,600kg of “imported rotten meat” from warehouses, eateries and shops across Kashmir valley, triggering a storm of halal concerns and rumours.The seizures, excluding poultry, were made over the past week during surprise inspections that uncovered illegal storage and gross…
