NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said the upcoming Lok Sabha elections were just a formality as people have already made up their minds to bless Prime Minister Modi. “It’s a formality that every 5 years we have to vote, otherwise there was no need of this election because people have…
NEW DELHI: Yoga guru Ramdev on Tuesday appeared before the Supreme Court and tendered an unconditional apology for violating order related to misleading advertisements of Patanjali‘s medicinal products.The apex court criticized Ramdev and Patanjali Ayurved’s managing director, Acharya Balkrishna, for their “absolute defiance” in not submitting proper compliance affidavits.The court also expressed disapproval of Balkrishna’s…
Continuing the tradition of deploying special observers to provide critical feedback and oversight of a level-playing field in elections, the election commission on Tuesday appointed special general and police observers for six states as well as special expenditure observers for five states.The general and police will be the special observers who will help EC to…
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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Election Commission on a PIL filed by activist Arun Kumar Agrawal seeking complete count of voter verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) paper slips in elections as opposed to the current practice of verification of only five randomly selected electronic voting machines (EVMs) in each assembly segment…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday declined to interfere with a Varanasi court’s order allowing a priest nominated by the Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust to conduct daily puja at ‘Vyas Ji Ka Tehkhana‘ inside Gyanvapi mosque’s cellar and said Muslims would continue to offer namaz as usual inside the mosque.After a one-and-a-half-hour-long hearing on the…
An adult leopard sneaked into north Delhi’s Jagatpur village on Monday, entered some houses and attacked people, injuring eight of them, police said. The animal, suspected to have strayed from nearby Yamuna Biodiversity Park, was trapped in a room and tranquillised by forest department personnel, five hours after it was first sighted. Cops took the…
NEW DELHI: Raising the issue of Katchatheevu for the second straight day, PM Modi Monday targeted DMK over revelations that the party had consented to renunciation of the island in 1974.Taking to X, Modi mentioned official documents cited by TOI to say that notwithstanding DMK’s public protestations, party stalwart and then CM of Tamil Nadu…
At the outset of the hearing on Congress’s appeal against a Delhi high court order, solicitor general Tushar Mehta told a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih that he wanted to make a statement on behalf of I-T department. He said no further action would be taken against the opposition party…
NEW DELHI: There has been a sudden twist in the story of ruling Biju Janata Dal in Odisha. The BJD, which was till recently talking about a possible alliance with the BJP citing the “great friendship” between Prime Minister Modi and Naveen Patnaik, now seems to be struggling to prevent the exodus of its leaders…
