A 27-year-old Nepalese woman reported being raped in Patna after arriving from Siliguri in search of employment. She alleges that a bus driver, identified as Kartikeya, gained her trust and then sexually assaulted her for two days, taking her near BSAP-1 building and Gandhi Maidan area. PATNA: An incident rape of a 27-year-old Nepalese woman…
NEW DELHI: In a setback for National Testing Agency (NTA), Supreme Court has ordered manual evaluation of a NEET-UG 2025 answer sheet after a candidate alleged that the question paper was stapled incorrectly, resulting in a jumbled sequence of questions. The direction comes amid growing criticism that NTA has failed to adequately address students’ grievances,…
NEW DELHI: The Centre told Supreme Court Thursday that diluting the age of consent from 18 to 16 years would make young girls vulnerable to predators within and outside their family but conceded courts could exercise judicial discretion to determine whether an alleged ‘rape’ was actually adolescent romance warranting leniency.The Centre said, “Diluting age of…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine a proposal to make ‘none of the above (NOTA)’ choice available to voters even when a single candidate is in the fray to enable them to express their approval of him/her, and countermand the elections if NOTA votes exceed votes polled by the candidate.Despite Centre and…
NEW DELHI: Chapters on the lives and sacrifices of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and top gallantry award winners Brigadier Mohammad Usman and Major Somnath Sharma have been added to the NCERT syllabus this academic year, defence ministry said on Thursday.The newly-introduced chapters, in Class VIII (Urdu), Class VII (Urdu) and Class VIII (English) respectively, aim…
COIMBATORE: A 60-year-old man was found dead in a sub-inspector’s room at the Bazaar police station on Wednesday morning.The deceased has been identified as A Rajan, alias Arivoli Rajan, of Ramachettipalayam near Perur in Coimbatore district.Rajan arrived at the Bazaar police station around 11.19pm on Tuesday, seeking protection, claiming that a group of 25 men…
NEW DELHI: Following through on his claim of “atom bomb evidence of voter manipulation” in favour of governing BJP, Congress’ Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said over one lakh voters were downright fake in Mahadevapura assembly seat that BJP swept to narrowly win Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency in 2024. There are eight segments in the…
Nagpur: Atop a gentle hill in Girad village in Wardha district, surrounded by lush greenery and revered equally by Hindu and Muslim devotees, stands the Sheikh Farid Dargah. A site known for harmony was used as a prominent plot in the Raj More-directed Marathi film, ‘Khalid Ka Shivaji’, which has now triggered statewide controversy over…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Thursday termed Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of poll fraud against EC a “calculated deceit through a selective outrage” and accused Congress of “systematically” attacking constitutional bodies under a larger conspiracy against India’s democracy and the Constitution.“The ideologically hollow Congress is systematically attacking constitutional institutions. It cannot be ruled out that there is…
NEW DELHI: The chief electoral officers (CEO) of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Haryana, reacting to Rahul Gandhi‘s allegations of “massive voter fraud” during the 2024 Lok Sabha poll in Karnataka and the latest assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana, have said they would initiate the necessary proceedings after he declares under oath that he believes the…
