SC flags over 10 defects in Rahul’s plea against CEC Gyanesh Kumar NEW DELHI: Supreme Court registry Monday flagged over 10 defects in a petition filed by the Rahul Gandhi-led INDIA bloc against CEC Gyanesh Kumar over alleged large-scale voter deletions and irregularities in the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.The registry asked the lawyer…
NEW DELHI: India’s No. 1 tennis player Sumit Nagal has apologised to the crowd in Maia, Portugal, and local player Henrique Rocha for making a “talking gesture” after his first-round victory at the Maia ATP Challenger, saying it was a heat-of-the-moment reaction.Nagal, who prevailed 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(5) in a gruelling two-hour-and-56-minute contest, addressed the incident…
Former Zimbabwe fast bowler and international umpire Sarah Dambanevana has died in Harare at the age of 36. She passed away on Monday, October 12, after spending months in hospital following a medical procedure in March, Zimbabwe Cricket confirmed.Dambanevana represented Zimbabwe as a player between 2009 and 2014 before moving into umpiring, where she went…
NEW DELHI: Hitting out at Congress after its Kerala unit sought Chief Justice Surya Kant’s resignation, BJP Monday said it is a confirmation of its charge that the party is out to destroy constitutional institutions.Reacting the CJI’ss comments to the media over the Delhi protests that law and order is not his domain, Kerala Congress…
India are one of the seven cities/countries bidding to host the 2036 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. (PTI) NEW DELHI: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed seven interested parties for the 2036 Summer Olympics: India, Germany, Qatar, South Korea, South Africa, Türkiye and Hungary. With the process currently at the dialogue stage, the bids will…
NEW DELHI: Over 60% of the 33 lakh voters who got SIR notices in Delhi have been verified after the Election Commission eased the verification process late last month.BLOs are now visiting homes to collect documents, instead of requiring people to appear for hearings at govt offices. Also, BLO have been empowered to make corrections…
NEW DELHI: It is not Election Commission (EC) but Congress’s own “visionless” leadership that is behind its long run of poll defeats, BJP said Monday, stating that an “unstable, anarchist and unserious” Rahul Gandhi has turned to street protests to vent his frustration over popular rejection.Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan quizzed Congress over its losses…
NEW DELHI: Govt Monday announced establishment of a high-level committee within a week to address the grievances of sugarcane farmers over discrepancies in sugar recovery, weighment and payments. The announcement was made at a meeting chaired by agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan which was attended by farmers from Maharashtra and Karnataka.Chouhan and food minister Pralhad…
NEW DELHI: Aware of the flagrant violation of its past Diwali cracker ban order which had specified time windows for bursting green crackers, Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider strict control over bursting of crackers and said the court must not pass orders which are difficult to implement on the ground.“We have to be…
: Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan meets Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, in New Delhi. Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami met with Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in New Delhi on Monday and held detailed discussions on the expansion of rural road connectivity in Uttarakhand…
