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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…

BMC workers cover a ‘kabutarkhana’ at Dadar, Mumbai (Image credits: PTI) NEW DELHI: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday told the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to seek public objections before deciding whether to allow controlled pigeon feeding at the Dadar Kabutarkhana.A bench of Justices G S Kulkarni and Arif Doctor was hearing petitions challenging the…

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Wednesday issued notice to Muzaffarpur mayor Nirmala Devi for allegedly possessing two voter ID cards.Hours after Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav‘s allegations, the poll body sought a clarification from Nirmala Devi by August 16. Tejashwi Yadav’s ‘Name Missing’ From Bihar Draft List Claim Prompts Forgery Probe By EC…