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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern over implementation of reservation for persons with disabilities as those PwD who perform on a par with general candidates and make it to the merit list are not treated as unreserved, like it is done in case of SC/ST reservation, and asked the Centre to rectify it.A…

TARN TARAN: A court in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district sentenced Manjinder Singh Lalpura, AAP MLA from Khadoor Sahib, to four years in prison in a 12-year-old case of assault and molestation of a Dalit woman.On Wednesday, the court had convicted 11 people, including six policemen, in the case. Pronouncing the sentence on Friday, additional sessions…

NEW DELHI: Citing historical poll data, BJP Friday asserted that Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of “vote chori” is baseless, and Congress’s electoral graph has been declining since 1984, when it last won a LS majority, hitting rock bottom in 2014.BJP neta GVL Narasimha Rao, a former party MP and poll analyst, said that the LoP in…

NEW DELHI: India and the European Union Friday said that they are working intensely to finalise the trade deal by year-end, with commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal suggesting that some strategic elements may be part of the overall arrangement in the coming months.“We’ve been negotiating this for quite some time, but I can tell…

PM at an international conference on the Gyan Bharatam Mission on Friday NEW DELHI: PM Modi on Thursday highlighted that India was home to the largest collection of manuscripts, and said it was a tribute to “the dedication of our ancestors towards knowledge, science, reading and learning”.He said while lakhs of manuscripts were lost due…

NEW DELHI/PATNA: As a political row erupted on Friday after Bihar Congress shared an AI-generated video on X, depicting PM Narendra Modi and his late mother Heeraben Modi, BJP and its allies lashed out at Congress, calling it “shameful”, and wondering how low the party would stoop to target Modi.In its attempt to target the…

NEW DELHI: Underscoring that judicial process should not become itself a punishment for the accused, Supreme Court on Friday said that courts should “take the side of liberty” and grant bail if there was a chance of the accused getting acquitted in the case.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan upheld a…

HASSAN: Eight people died and 25 suffered grievous injuries when a speeding truck ploughed through a Ganesh immersion procession in Mosalehosahalli in Karnataka’s Hassan district on Friday. The death toll was likely to rise as several of those injured were critical, officials said.Villagers from Mosalehosahalli were holding the procession on one side of the four-laned…