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NEW DELHI: Women aced voter turnout in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday, not only recording their highest-ever polling percentage but also surpassing the male voter turnout in the two states and the Union territory. A whopping 91.4% of the female electorate in Puducherry, 86.5% in Assam and 81.2% in Kerala voted. In comparison, the...

Bizman, 9 others held for murder of pregnant wife, minor daughters WARANGAL: About ten days after a three-month-pregnant woman and her two daughters, aged nine and five, were found dead in a private swimming pool on the outskirts of Warangal, police on Friday arrested ten individuals, including the woman’s husband — the prime accused.According to...

Yashwant Varma (File photo) NEW DELHI: Friday’s resignation saves Justice Yashwant Varma from the ignominy of defending himself in Parliament in a debate on the motion to remove him as a judge. However, it might open a window for the authorities to order an investigation into the source of the money found in a judge’s...

Artemis II splashdown (Source: Nasa) Nasa’s Artemis II crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California early Saturday, marking their return to Earth after a lunar flyby mission.The Orion spacecraft carrying the crew completed a successful splashdown. A joint Nasa and US military recovery team was on site to receive the astronauts...

Misbah ul Haq (AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is facing criticism over its own rules after former captain Misbah-ul-Haq revealed he is working with Peshawar Zalmi as a consultant during the Pakistan Super League (PSL). As reported by PTI, this has raised questions because the PCB had earlier stopped Sarfaraz Ahmed...

MUMBAI: With the peace plan for West Asia moving ahead-though under clouds of uncertainty-investors around the world are slowly taking bets that the war would end soon. Most markets across the globe moved up, including in India. However, in early trades, the US markets were marginally lower. On Friday, although crude prices hovered around the...

To woo women voters in Assam, BJP and Congress have pitched competing cash-transfers. In Assam, the BJP sankalp patra promised that the monthly direct bank transfer under Orunodoi scheme would be increased to Rs 3,000 for women and that it aims for 40 lakh “lakhpati baideos , a flagship initiative to economically empower women. Congress,...

NEW DELHI: Observing that inflationary pressures do not discriminate between a serving employee and a pensioner, hitting the two equally, Supreme Court Friday held that fixing differential rates of enhancement of inflation-linked dearness benefits for the two categories is arbitrary and cannot be allowed. A bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Prasanna B Varale disapproved...

NEW DELHI: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal has held talks with his counterparts from the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain as well as the Gulf Cooperation Council and assured India’s support in addressing supply chain challenges, especially food. During his calls, he underlined the need to maintain peace in the region that has come under...

NEW DELHI: US secretary of state Marco Rubio will visit India next month, said ambassador Sergio Gor after a meeting that Rubio had with visiting Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri. This will be Rubio’s first visit to India since he assumed office after the return of President Donald Trump to the White House. Welcoming Misri...