JAIPUR: Rajasthan HC reaffirmed Thursday its stay on leak-marred 2021 sub-inspector (SI) recruitments after state’s BJP governmentt asserted test results could not be cancelled “in haste” as it was examining all legal aspects.Under the stay, first ordered on Nov 18, 2024, none of 859 SI recruits can be given field postings, nor can they be…
NEW DELHI: ED has uncovered a network of CAs and hawala operators who sent out more than Rs 10,000 crore of black money out of the country in the past few years. A search on Jan 2 in Thane, Mumbai and Varanasi led to recovery of digital and other documents that revealed the modus operandi…
RAIPUR: A fierce encounter broke out between security forces and Maoists in insurgency-hit Sukma of Bastar, Chhattisgarh, on Thursday, four days after an IED blast killed eight jawans and their driver in neighbouring Bijapur. Troops from the District Reserve Guard, Special Task Force and CoBRA set out on the operation on the border of Sukma…
Representative image/AI generated VARANASI: From most wanted to most trusted, Nakdu Yadav pulled off the ultimate con, living as a lawbreaker while working for the law, blending into the very system that once pursued him.A gangster with a rap sheet as long as a dusty Azamgarh road, Nakdu pulled a Houdini act by rebranding himself…
BAREILLY: The UP government has started “reviewing” the 1978 Sambhal riots following a BJP leader‘s demand to “reopen” the cases. The decision follows CM Yogi Adityanath‘s mention of the riots during the December 2024 legislative session, which sparked renewed efforts to revisit the violence. While official figures of the death toll from the riots are…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday expressed its reservation about directing governments to implement its Aug 2024 landmark ruling to bar those belonging to creamy layer within SC and ST categories from taking quota benefits, and also to sub-classify SC/STs to extend the benefit of reservation to the more needy among the two categories. The court…
NEW DELHI: For the second time in two years, Supreme Court has junked pleas for legalising same-sex marriages, with a five-judge bench on Thursday unanimously rejecting a bunch of petitions by LGBTQ+ community members seeking review of the court’s October 2023 judgment that had emphatically dismissed PILs seeking the relief.The petitioners had sought a review…
Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto. NEW DELHI: While the Indian government has invited Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to participate in the Republic Day celebrations as the chief guest, and an official announcement about his visit is expected any moment now, it would not like him to club his visit to India with a proposed visit by…
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah with his father and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah. (PTI) JAMMU: Amid the rumblings in INDIA bloc over AAP and Congress contesting Delhi assembly elections separately, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and his son and J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah are speaking in different voices over the issue.While…
The two men, despite their frosty relationship over the years, were caught in an animated conversation that went far beyond pleasantries. Former President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump were seen sharing smiles and laughter Thursday at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, but a professional lipreader has uncovered what might have been a…
