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SIR appeals pile up in WB, EC says hike number of tribunals NEW DELHI: The innumerable voters in West Bengal who were removed from the electoral rolls after special intensive revision (SIR) may not be able to vote for more than a decade as appellate tribunals set up by Supreme Court could take more than...

While Salve publicly defended Chandrasekaran’s reappointment and endorsed idea of listing Tata Sons, Singhvi accused Tata Sons of undermining shareholder rights MUMBAI: It is Singhvi versus Salve in the Tata battle. After standing together for Tata Sons and Tata Trusts in the Cyrus Mistry case, two of India’s most high-profile lawyers are now on opposite...

GST gains fade as rising costs dilute price cuts, leaving sectors with mixed outcomes NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A year after GST rationalisation, higher commodity prices have eroded a large part of the gains with prices of several products – from food to consumer goods and automobiles – slowly inching up.Within the multiple segments that saw rate...

The poll of a dozen economists showed that a majority expects repo rate to rise by 25 basis points NEW DELHI: Most economists are betting on a rate hike by the monetary policy committee in Oct in the wake of acceleration in inflation, massive liquidity and central banks increasing interest rates in the US and...

Image: Canva A Sable Shearwater chick leaves Lord Howe Island only once as a fledgling, having never flown further than its burrow entrance, never fed itself, and never seen the open ocean. Researchers at Adrift Lab attached solar-powered GPS tags to thirty of these young birds as they prepared to leave in 2022 and 2024,...

NEW DELHI: Criticising the use of muscle power by financiers to get back hypothecated vehicles, Supreme Court has told one of them to pay Rs 15 lakh to a truck owner who had taken a loan of Rs 10.4 lakh to buy the vehicle.Nearly two years after sanctioning the loan in June 2021, Cholamandalam Investment...

The International Criminal Court building is seen in The Hague, Netherlands (File photo) The Trump administration is preparing sweeping sanctions against the International Criminal Court that could restrict most of the Hague-based tribunal’s financial transactions and potentially cut it off from much of the global banking system, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing...

Iran said that regional allies would be considered parties to the conflict. Iran has issued warning that any renewed military action by the United States and its allies would trigger “continuous, effective and painful” attacks on US bases and interests across West Asia, while countries supporting Washington would be treated as parties to the conflict.The...

A screen displays preliminary results of Russia’s parliamentary election during a briefing at the headquarters of the Central Election Commission in Moscow Russia on Sunday wrapped up its first parliamentary election since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party widely expected to retain its overwhelming control of the...

NEW DELHI: Around 93% of those whose cases have been decided so far over not being able to vote in the West Bengal polls this year because of doubts raised about their eligibility during Election Commission’s SIR drive have won their appeals and have been included in the electoral roll. However, 8,649 of 1.2 lakh...