NEW DELHI: At least two soldiers sustained injuries during an encounter with terrorists in Jaddan Bata village, located in the Kastigarh area of Jammu and Kashmir‘s Doda district. The incident took place at approximately 2:00 am when terrorists targeted a temporary security camp established in a government school for ongoing search operations, as reported by…
NEW DELHI: We are 24 years into the 21st century, but every minute, three girl children are forced into marriage in India. Not that you will know this from crime data, which captures a fraction of child marriages in the country. Take 2022, for example. Only three cases were registered per day nationwide. It gets…
LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: “Jab hum ye maan ke chalte hain ati atma-vishwas mein ki hum to jeet hi rahe hain to swabhavik roop se humen khamiyaja bhi bhugatna padta hai. Jo vipaksh chunav ke pehle himmat haar ke baith gaya tha wo aaj phir se uchhal kood karne ka karya kar raha hai (BJP paid the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that it is wasting a lot of judicial time these days as people convicted in serious offences are filing frivolous petitions long after dismissal of their appeals claiming to be juveniles at the time of committing the offence.Twin factors have given wing to such pleas – an SC ruling…
BENGALURU: Karnataka govt’s controversial decision to introduce hefty job reservations for “local candidates” in the private sector faced a severe backlash from industry bodies and the business community, forcing chief minister Siddaramaiah to retract, at least temporarily.Late Wednesday night, the CMO released a message stating: “The job reservation bill for Kannadigas, cleared by the state…
NEW DELHI: In a relief to many homebuyers who booked flats under the subvention plan and have not received possession of their flats in various projects across the NCR due to inordinate delays by developers, the Supreme Court has directed that no coercive action be taken against them by banks or builders regarding payment of…
WHO defines zero-dose children as those who lack access to or are never reached by routine immunisation services. They are operationally measured as those who did not receive their first dose of the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) vaccine. It is mainly used to communicate about immunisation gaps and to push for concerted efforts to…
NEW DELHI: Saurabh Gaikwad, the 25-year-old son of former Pune deputy mayor and NCP (SP) politician Bandu Gaikwad, allegedly rammed his speeding SUV into a poultry tempo transporting chickens, injuring two people in Pune early Tuesday morning, the police said.The incident occurred at approximately 5 AM at Z Corner on Manjari-Mundhwa Road when Saurabh Gaikwad…
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RANCHI: Jharkhand should treat Assam as a cautionary tale of how demographic change caused by “infiltration from Bangladesh” has become “a matter of life and death” for the state’s indigenous population, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said Wednesday in Ranchi.“In Assam, Muslim population is 40%. It was 12% in 1951. We lost districts due to infiltration…
