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NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday slammed the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) for ordering the closure of meat shops and slaughterhouses on August 15, for Independence Day.Sharing a post on X, Owaisi said the directive was “callous and unconstitutional,” questioning its link to Independence Day celebrations. “Many municipal corporations across India seemed…

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday told a Pune court that he may face from the complainant in a defamation case related to his remarks against Savarkar. In an application submitted to the court, Gandhi said that the complainant is a direct descendant of Nathuram Godse and that “preventive protection is not only…

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor (Image credits: IANS) NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor urged a rethink of the Supreme Court’s order to relocate all stray dogs in Delhi-NCR to shelters, suggesting that funds for dog management be channelled to credible animal welfare organisations rather than municipalities. He noted that the real issue lies in municipalities’…

Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi (file photo) NEW DELHI: Accusing governor RN Ravi of “anti-Tamil Nadu activities,” the state unit of the Congress on Wednesday announced it will boycott his Independence Day tea party on August 15.Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K Selvaperunthagai said the decision was also in protest against the Election Commission’s…

NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leaders on Wednesday hit back at Israeli ambassador to India Reuven Azar for publicly targeting party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and rejecting allegations of genocide in Gaza.Priyanka Gandhi had posted, “The Israeli state is committing genocide. It has murdered over 60,000 people, 18,430 of whom were children. It has starved hundreds…

NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party to furnish the “evidence of crime” after it accused Sonia Gandhi of possessing voter ID card even before becoming a citizen of India.Congress leader Pawan Khera also sought result data of Varanasi constituency from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi won by “a very thin margin”…

The Supreme Court ruled that the 11 documents accepted for Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) are more “voter-friendly” than the seven required for summary revision, dismissing concerns that excluding Aadhaar was exclusionary. Meanwhile, EAM S Jaishankar is set to visit Moscow on August 21 to meet Sergei Lavrov amid US-India trade tensions over Russian crude….

NEW DELHI: BJP leader K Annamalai on Wednesday criticised Tamil Nadu’s ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) after a student, who is also reportedly the wife of a DMK leader, M Rajan, refused to receive her degree from the state governor during a convocation ceremony.“For ages, the deplorable dramas staged by DMK members to gain fame…

JAIPUR: Congress general secretary Sachin Pilot on Wednesday alleged that the BJP was defending the Election Commission instead of allowing it to respond independently to serious concerns regarding irregularities in the voter lists. Speaking to reporters here, the former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan said that rather than answering the issues raised by the Congress…