Category: Events

AGRA: A 45-year-old govt teacher assigned as a booth-level officer (BLO) for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls collapsed and died while preparing to leave for duty in Hathras district on Tuesday morning. His family has alleged that work-related stress caused the fatal collapse. His wife alleged that work-related stress led to the...

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday told ‘Association for Democratic Reforms’ to argue within legal confines while challenging the validity of SIR of voter lists across states and without reciting snide remarks of political parties, after its counsel Prashant Bhushan referred to EC as a ‘despot’.A charged up Bhushan reeled off a set of accusations...

KOLKATA: The parents of 26-year-old Sunali Khatoon, who was branded an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant and pushed across the border by Indian authorities, have been verified as voters in Bengal’s Birbhum district, with their names appearing in the state’s 2002 SIR of electoral rolls.Bhodu Sheikh, 62, and his wife Jyotsna Bibi, 55 — both on the...

NEW DELHI: The govt Tuesday relented to opposition parties’ unanimous demand for a debate in Parliament on SIR, albeit under the broader subject of election reforms, as the two sides reached an agreement to rule out the grim prospect of another session washout.The govt prevailed on the opposition to first take up a discussion on...

JAISALMER: An Indian Army tank sank in the Indira Gandhi Canal during a routine military exercise in Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar district on Tuesday morning, resulting in the death of one jawan.The incident occurred during a training exercise aimed at practising how to cross the canal with armoured vehicles, local police said. The Army was yet to...

NEW DELHI: Almost 83% of the total Rs 915 crore political donations routed through the Tata group-controlled Progressive Electoral Trust (PET) in 2024-25 went to BJP, while Congress’ share was a mere 8.4%.A perusal of the contribution reports of various electoral trusts (ET) for 2024-25, now available on the Election Commission website, indicates that the...

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday said intruders and illegal immigrants have no legal right and hoped every citizen is aware of this problem in northeastern and eastern states, amplifying a concern that had prompted SC in 2005 to observe that Assam faced “external aggression and internal disturbance” due to influx of Bangladeshi migrants.Dealing with a...

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<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-125728235,imgsize-84844,width-400,resizemode-4/manipur-gst-amendments-taken-up-for-consideration-and-passing-in-lok-sabha.jpg" alt="RS sends Manipur GST bill to Lok Sabha amid walkout by oppn over SIR" title=" Sitharaman said the bill proposes crucial reforms based on steps such as track-and-trace system. ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Sitharaman said the bill proposes crucial reforms based on steps such as track-and-trace system. NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha on Tuesday returned...

HYDERABAD: An IndiGo flight from Kuwait to Hyderabad early Tuesday was diverted mid-air to Mumbai after the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at Hyderabad received an email threat of a suicide-bomb attack. It turned out to be a hoax and flyers reached Hyderabad on another flight by the operator later.RGIA police registered a case on...