EC confiscates voter rewards worth over 650 cr from poll-restricted states like UT
New Delhi: Potential voter incentives worth over Rs 650 crore have been election committee Teams from five polling states/UTs, with West Bengal accounting for nearly half of the seizures so far.Since the launch of the Electronic Seizure Management System…
Beef row: Chief minister vows action against relatives of AJP nominee
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday raised the issue of beef consumption while campaigning against Kunki Chowdhury (27), a key ally of Congress’ Assam Jatiya Parishad Parishad (AJP) candidate from Guwahati central seat…
RG Kar victim’s mother threatens to ‘beat’ Didi, TMC seeks action
KOLKATA: The mother of a trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital in 2024 has sparked a bitter political controversy as the BJP candidate after she threatened to throw out the Bengal chief minister in a purported…
500 judges perform SIR duties, Bangladesh courts are piling up cases
KOLKATA: More than 500 judicial officers (judges of lower courts) from across Bengal are involved in adjudicating suspicious cases flagged on the electoral roll released in February, significantly slowing down the processing of cases in the state’s…
8L PNG in one month Link: Official
NEW DELHI: Nearly 800,000 new piped gas consumers have joined the ranks in the past month, driven by the government and gas companies to promote the use of piped gas and reduce dependence on cooking gas cylinders, a senior official said on…
Modi in Bengal says Malda siege of judiciary officials is evidence of jungle rule
KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday cited the jailing of seven judicial officers on special administrative area duty in Malda district as evidence of the breakdown in law and order in Bengal, intensifying his criticism of Trinamool Congress…
HC lets married teen live with man of her choice
BHOPAL: A 19-year-old married woman who has been given legal sanction to live “independently” with the man of her choice told the Gwalior bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court that her 40-year-old husband – who is more than twice her…
Women’s rights vs women’s rights Religion: CJI-led 9-J bench includes all faiths and has a woman
New Delhi: Inspired by the rule of thumb that “justice must not only be done but must be done visibly”, CJI Surya Kant constituted a nine-judge bench, including judges from various faiths and a woman, to decide the validity of contentious…
Petition filed in South Carolina challenging revised ‘transgender’ law
New Delhi: In less than a week since the controversial amendments dealing with the definition of transgender, omitting “self-perceived identity” as a basis for approval of a transgender certificate from a magistrate and introducing a medical…
Reacting to AAP Punjab unit charges, Chadha says Punjab is ‘my soul’
New Delhi: “Punjab is not a topic for me. It is my commitment. It is my soul,” alienated AAP MP Raghav Chadha On Sunday, while rebutting the allegations made by the AAP Punjab unit chief a day ago, he said that despite repeated…