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Cooch Behar workers’ ‘vote first, work later’ mantra hits Jaipur restos, households & biz

Jaipur: Bengal polls just a fortnight away, a sharp staff shortage has gripped households and eateries across Jaipur as migrant workers from Cooch Behar return home to cast their votes, leaving kitchens short-handed and businesses scrambling. Read More

Judge resigns year after cash pile found at home

NEW DELHI: Justice Yashwant Varma, who has been in the eye of a storm for more than 13 months since the accidental discovery of wads of burnt notes in his official bungalow in New Delhi, has resigned as a judge of Allahabad high court Read More

‘History Will Record Unfairness’: Justice Yashwant Varma Writes To Probe Panel, Questions Evidence

Justice Yashwant Varma resigns, claims Lok Sabha inquiry into the case was “unfair,” cites procedural lapses, unreliable video evidence and public vilification. Read More

‘Mahatma Gandhi mein aag lag rahi hai bhai’

Yashwant Varma NEW DELHI: “Mahatma Gandhi mein aag lag rahi hai bhai” (Mahatma Gandhi is catching fire) – the frantic exclamation of a fireman, captured on video, became the focal point of a probe into the fire tha Read More

Varma goes down protesting: ‘Asked to answer the unanswerable’

NEW DELHI: Justice Yashwant Varma of Allahabad high court may have submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu on Friday, but he went down crying foul. Read More

‘X may lose safe harbour status over Rana posts’

NEW DELHI: The Centre and Delhi Police told Delhi high court on Friday that social media platform X (formerly Twitter) risks losing its safe harbour protection in India as an intermediary if it fails to act despite court orders and p Read More

Highest-ever women voter turnout in Kerala, Assam and Puducherry

NEW DELHI: Women aced voter turnout in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday, not only recording their highest-ever polling percentage but also surpassing the male voter turnout in the two states and the Union territory. Read More

Yashwant Varma’s resignation may open graft-probe window

Yashwant Varma (File photo) NEW DELHI: Friday’s resignation saves Justice Yashwant Varma from the ignominy of defending himself in Parliament in a debate on the motion to remove him as a judge. Read More

Parties woo women voters with cash transfer promises

To woo women voters in Assam, BJP and Congress have pitched competing cash-transfers. Read More

Army promotes Col Purohit to Brigadier rank after AFT relief, acquittal in Malegaon case

NEW DELHI: Indian Army has cleared Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit’s promotion to the rank of Brigadier following his acquittal in Malegaon blast case and his plea before the armed forces tribunal (AFT) that he should not be retired b Read More

Can’t have different DA hikes for staff and pensioners: Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: Observing that inflationary pressures do not discriminate between a serving employee and a pensioner, hitting the two equally, Supreme Court Friday held that fixing differential rates of enhancement of inflation-linked dea Read More

Piyush Goyal assures supply chain support to Gulf counterparts

NEW DELHI: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal has held talks with his counterparts from the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain as well as the Gulf Cooperation Council and assured India’s support in addressing supply chain challe Read More