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SHIMLA: The district court in Shimla on Thursday upheld the municipal commissioner court’s order to demolish the entire structure of the Sanjauli mosque, dismissing petitions filed by the Himachal Pradesh Waqf Board and the Sanjauli Mosque Committee, reported PTI.The Sanjauli Mosque Committee had challenged the May 3 order of the commissioner’s court, which directed the…

NEW DELHI: The government appointed Justice Surya Kant as the 53rd Chief Justice of India (CJI), the law ministry announced on Thursday.He will formally take oath on November 24, succeeding Chief Justice Bhushan Gavai, and will become the first top justice from Haryana. Who is Justice Surya Kant? Born on February 10, 1962, in Petwar,…

IIT Kanpur director Manindra Agrawal (Image credits: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) NEW DELHI: Cloud seeding is only a short-term emergency tool to combat severe pollution and poses no threat to humans or the environment, IIT-Kanpur director Manindra Agrawal clarified. He said the process uses only minute quantities of chemicals to induce rain and is…

NEW DELHI: Red Chillies Entertainment has told the Delhi high court that Indian Revenue Service officer and former NCB Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede’s defamation suit against its Netflix series The Bads of Bollywood is “misconceived,” arguing that the show is “a work of situational satire” and that Wankhede’s reputation had already been under public…

Former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray (ANI) NEW DELHI: Former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has been issued a show cause notice by the commission probing the 2018 Koregaon Bhima violence for failing to respond to an application seeking production of key documents related to the case.The inquiry panel, headed by former high court chief…

A man in Mumbai allegedly held 19 people hostage, including 17 children, inside a flat in Mumbai’s Powai area before being arrested and later shot dead by police. PM Modi accused the Congress and RJD of insulting Chhathi Maiyya and using the issue for political gain in Bihar. On the economic front, the ministry of…

NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha launched a pointedly gendered attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, contrasting him with former PM Indira Gandhi. Speaking ahead of the Bihar polls, he compared the 1971 war situation to Operation Sindoor, saying that then PM Gandhi, “being a woman”, handled the situation with more strength “than…