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Will strengthen INDIA bloc, says Congress

NEW DELHI: Amid the rumblings triggered by the opposition’s comprehensive defeat in Bihar, Congress said it was committed to INDIA bloc and would double efforts to strengthen the national alliance. Read More

Bihar: Kurmis & Kushwahas power Nitish Kumar’s rise, two decades on

NEW DELHI: The consolidation of Kurmis and Kushwahas – two intermediary backward castes – behind Nitish Kumar powered his rise two decades back, and as he took take oath for an unprecedented 10th time as Bihar CM on Thurs Read More

Bihar: Humble gamcha has its moment under the sun, courtesy PM Modi

NEW DELHI: If one moment conveyed NDA’s triumphant mood at the swearing-in ceremony in Patna after its massive poll win, it was the sight of PM Narendra Modi waving a ‘gamcha’ to the crowd of happy supporters, many Read More

Bihar: Nitish 10.0 takes oath with 14 mantris from BJP, 8 from JDU

NEW DELHI/PATNA: As the swearing-in ceremony ended at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan Thursday, CM Nitish Kumar took PM Modi’s hand and lifted it with his to greet a large cheering crowd, marking the new dynamic in their relationsh Read More

Article 142 can’t be used to usurp powers of President, governors: SC

NEW DELHI: A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday disapproved in dismay a two-judge bench’s decision to use SC’s Article 142 powers to grant ‘deemed assent’ to 10 Bills pending for long with Tamil Read More

5-judge bench agrees with 2-judge bench on only one point: Guv can’t sit on bill indefinitely

NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu govt’s 2023 writ petition accusing the governor of deliberately not acting on 10 bills passed by the state assembly had led a two-judge Supreme Court bench to pen a 415-page judgment on April 8, strippin Read More

10 years of JJ Act: 55% pendency, 1 in 4 boards has no full bench

NEW DELHI: Ten years after the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 came into force, a new study by the India Justice Report has exposed how the country’s juvenile justice system is crumbling under the sam Read More

ED seizes more assets of Anil Ambani group

NEW DELHI: In its ongoing money laundering investigation against Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group entities, ED Thursday said the special task force constituted at its headquarters here has attached more assets, worth over Rs 1,452 Read More

Government appoints 7 new secretary-rank officers

NEW DELHI: Govt on Thursday appointed seven new secretary-rank officers, including the new heads for oil, telecom and agriculture ministries. Read More

SC bans new mining leases in Aravalis, allows only existing ones to operate

NEW DELHI: To protect the Aravali hills and ranges – the only barrier against desertification of the Gangetic plains – Supreme Court Thursday barred grant of mining leases, but allowed existing ones to operate, while askin Read More

SC: Can’t impose timelines on governors to clear bills

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that it has no jurisdiction or power to set a timeline for a governor or the President to take a decision on bills passed by state assemblies, ask the President to seek SC’s opi Read More

Indian, Nasa experts confirm 3I/ATLAS is a ‘comet’, rule out ‘alien ship’ theory

Indian and Nasa space scientists have captured fresh images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and confirmed that it has all the characteristics of a “comet” while dismissing some astronomers’ theory that it could be an “alien ship”. Read More