NEW DELHI: National Democratic Alliance on Thursday authorised PM Modi and BJP president J P Nadda to finalise the alliance’s vice-presidential candidate, boosting the chances of Jagdeep Dhankhar’s successor being from the governing party’s own ranks.“The decision taken by the PM will be accepted by all NDA parties,” parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju said. The…
HYDERABAD: A young psychiatrist who had been under treatment for injuries sustained in a suicide attempt at her parents’ residence in Czech Colony, Sanathnagar, passed away on Tuesday. Her family has accused her husband and his relatives of continuous harassment, which they claim drove her to take the extreme step. She first attempted suicide on…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged a “huge criminal fraud” in polls was being perpetrated through a “collusion” between BJP and EC, citing a Congress study that claimed the addition of fake voters in an assembly segment led to BJP winning the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency in 2024.Making a presentation at a presser,…
Even as citizenship issues are being raised in many parts of the country, a new report questions the legal process followed by the Foreigners Tribunals (FTs) and Gauhati high court in declaring 1.6 lakh people as “foreigners” in Assam.According to the report, citizenship was denied on the basis of minor spelling errors and confusion between…
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Patiala House court Thursday allowed 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks plotter Tahawwur Rana to have a phone conversation with his family for the limited purpose of discussing the engagement of a new legal aid counsel.At present, advocate Piyush Sachdeva from Delhi Legal Services Authority is Rana’s legal counsel. The Pakistan-born Canadian moved court…
NEW DELHI: The armed forces have come up with new joint doctrines for cyberspace and amphibious operations, with the former especially emerging as a key element of non-contact warfare, blurring the demarcation between war and peace.The “declassified versions” of the doctrines were released during a meeting chaired by Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan…
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…
