NEW DELHI/ LUCKNOW: About 2.9 crore voters, making up 18.7% of UP’s 15.4 crore-strong electorate at the launch of the state’s SIR exercise on Nov 4 last year, have been struck off the draft rolls published on Tuesday.These voters have time till February 6 to file claims and objections to get their names restored in…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court under the leadership of CJI Surya Kant maintained its stand for equitable distribution of judicial time for litigants irrespective of their status, and said on Tuesday that the rich and influential could not bypass tiers of judiciary to move the SC directly.When an accused sought hearing of his petition challenging validity…
NAGPUR: National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered criminal proceedings against the administration of an ordnance factory in Bhandara, Maharashtra, holding that “safe practices were not adopted” at the defence explosives unit where a massive blast killed nine workers and injured several others on January 24, 2025.In a detailed judgment pronounced on Monday, NGT (western zone) bench…
Amid growing demand for a CBI probe into the 2022 Rishikesh resort murder case, in which a 19-year-old receptionist was allegedly killed under mysterious circumstances, CM Pushkar Dhami Tuesday said his govt was open to “all forms of probe” to get answers. The incident had triggered massive protests across Uttarakhand at the time. Dhami said…
LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday approved transfer of commercial and industrial properties among family members through gift deeds at a concessional stamp duty capped at Rs 5,000. Earlier, this concession, introduced in Aug 2023, applied only to agricultural and residential properties.Stamp and registration minister Ravindra Jaiswal said that under Indian Stamp Act, 1899,…
PATNA: The fate of Bihar’s panchayati raj minister Deepak Prakash hangs in the balance as Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM), founded and led by his father and former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha, looks set to split with three of the four party legislators likely to stake claim over the organisation as part of the NDA.The three…
BHUBANESWAR: A court in Odisha’s Bargarh sentenced a 21-year-old man to death Tuesday for raping and killing a minor girl in Nov 2024, reports Sandip Mishra. The convict, Prashanta Bag, lured the girl to a secluded place on pretext of taking her fishing. Later, the victim’s naked body with severe head injuries was found in…
AKOLA: Maharashtra state Congress vice-president Hidayat Patel was stabbed in Akot taluka, in Akola, moments after he stepped out of Markaz Masjid in Mohala village after offering namaz on Tuesday. Police arrested the assailant later in the day.Police said the attacker had stabbed Patel multiple times in the neck and abdomen with a sharp weapon…
KOLHAPUR: Following a high court directive, Oxford University Press has apologised to Chhatrapati Udayanraje Bhosale, 13th descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and others offended by “unverified statements” in four pages of James Laine’s 2003 book, ‘Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India’. Protests over these had led to an attack on a Pune-based history research centre.Acting…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Tuesday allowed forensic examination of the Unnao rape survivor’s voice sample in a case relating to her alleged gang rape in June 2017, a week after she was raped by former BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar.The order was passed on an application moved by the counsel for one of the…