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Mamata Banerjee and Nitin Naveen (R) NEW DELHI: The BJP and the TMC traded sharp barbs in West Bengal on Wednesday as the assembly elections neared, increasingly accusing the political battleground. BJP’s new chief Nitin Naveen Mamata accused the government of double standards, alleging that Hindus must seek permission to set up puja pandals, where…

SC raps Haryana Police and its Child Welfare Committee for sensitive handling of three-year-old child rape case. D Supreme Court of India Haryana has slammed the police and the state’s child welfare committee for their handling of the three-year-old rape victim’s case, calling their approach “insensitive” and “shameful”.“The court took serious exception to the police…

New Delhi: India is facing a growing obesity burden, with one in four people overweight, yet the condition is being misunderstood as a lifestyle problem rather than a disease, experts said at a recent panel discussion after World Obesity Day led by ICMR and AIIMS.Experts say that despite growing awareness, most people don’t seek treatment,…

Congress 24 Akbar Road Headquarters (Photo/PTI) New Delhi: The Congress party on Wednesday received an eviction notice for its long-standing national headquarters at 24, Akbar Road, directing it to vacate the premises by March 28. Reacting to the notice, the Congress alleged that the ruling BJP government was trying to divert public attention from the…

NEW DELHI: India may be making progress against tuberculosis, but the scale of the challenge remains – accounting for nearly a quarter of the world’s TB cases even as millions of infections remain undiagnosed.According to the Tuberculosis Fact Sheet 2026 published by the Centre, Tuberculosis continues to be India’s biggest infectious disease challenge. India contributes…

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced the formation of a seven-empowered group to assess the impact of the ongoing military conflict in West Asia on energy supplies, essential goods and supply chains and chalk out a strategy to mitigate its impact on the Indian economy.In a statement in the Rajya Sabha, Modi…

New Delhi: Congress’s Rahul Gandhi has said India’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Modi has become a “universal farce”, adding that the policy is “uncompromising” because “the prime minister has compromised”. “Our foreign policy is Modi’s personal foreign policy, and everyone thinks it is a public joke,” he said when asked about Pakistan being a…

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday sentenced Kashmiri separatist and Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Asia Andrabi to life imprisonment for conspiring to commit crimes against the state.Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jeet Singh sentenced Andrabi’s two associates Sophie Fehmida and Nahida Nasreen to 30 years imprisonment in the case. The court sentenced Andrabi to life imprisonment under…

New Delhi: Jeopardy RJD Chief and former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to quash a CBI case in the alleged land-for-railway-job scam involving him and his family.Justice Ravindra Dudeja rejected Lalu’s argument that the FIR under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act was not sustainable as the…

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Tuesday held a meeting with Chief Secretaries, Chief Electoral Officers and police chiefs of constituencies/UTs and 12 other states sharing their boundaries to review election preparations, law and order issues and expenditure enforcement.Special focus was on border districts and sealing of borders to maintain peace and order in poll-bound…