NEW DELHI: India’s rice production during the 2025-26 kharif season that ended in Oct reached a record 124.5 million tonnes (MT), which is 1.7 MT (over 1%) more than the production of kharif rice last year, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. Output of pulses, oilseeds and cotton, however, marginally declined.The ministry’s first advance estimates…
NEW DELHI: Upping the ante in its political battle with TMC over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral roll in West Bengal, BJP on Wednesday urged the Election Commission to strengthen the ongoing process in the state as it flagged a host of concerns, including the presence of alleged infiltrators on voters’ rolls, and…
NEW DELHI: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has deactivated over two crore Aadhaar numbers belonging to deceased individuals as part of a nationwide clean-up drive to strengthen the accuracy and reliability of the Aadhaar database.Officials said the exercise is aimed at preventing identity fraud and ensuring that govt benefits linked to Aadhaar are…
Speculations over former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s whereabouts are rife across Pakistan after his three sisters were “brutally” assaulted by the police for seeking a meeting with their brother last week.This comes as several social media handles originating from Afghanistan and Pakistan claimed that Imran has been mysteriously killed inside Adiala Jail. Untold Bravery in…
The Bihar win is the triumph of NDA’s unity and resolve, he said at a dinner meeting at BJP chief J P Nadda’s residence to felicitate party members from different states who were deployed in the Bihar campaign.Sources said Shah also heartily praised JDU members and emphasised that people have supported the “Modi-Nitish jodi” wholeheartedly….
NEW DELHI: Claiming RSS had opposed the newly adopted Constitution by burning the effigy of B R Ambedkar at a rally in Ramlila Maidan in 1949, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said PM Narendra Modi and RSS offering flowers to Ambedkar and reading the Preamble mark the biggest victory for the founding fathers of the republic.“Today…
BENGALURU: Bengaluru resident Saswat Biswas, who goes by the X handle Takezo (@TakezoInTheWind), has highlighted the plight of his 70-plus grandmother, who has been stranded at Doha’s Hamad International Airport for more than 24 hours following widespread flight disruptions caused by a volcanic eruption in Ethiopia.“Hi @airindia, my grandmother was scheduled to take AI2284 but…
“The condition to the effect that the petitioner ‘should also share his location 24 x 7 with the IO (investigating officer) through Google’ is not sustainable and the same is accordingly deleted,” ordered Justice Vikas Mahajan on the plea by the accused seeking modification of the bail condition saying it was excessive, intrusive, and unsupported…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday emphatically said the Election Commission is statutorily and constitutionally empowered to conduct the pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and that it would not stall the process, while assuring that it would order corrective measures, if any irregularities were brought to its notice.CJI Surya Kant and Justice…
Veteran actor Dharmendra’s prayer meet has been scheduled for November 27, the family announced on Wednesday. In a poster shared publicly, they revealed that the gathering will take place from 5 pm to 7:30 pm at a luxurious hotel in Mumbai. The poster features a striking photograph of Dharmendra from his younger days along with…
