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New Delhi: Delhi High Court The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) on Friday slammed the wrestler for claiming it Vinesh PhogatThe disqualification for the 2024 Olympics was a “national shame”. The high court said it would “ensure” that he can attend the trial on May 30 to select the team for the next one. Asian…

NEW DELHI: Observing that a person is legally entitled to dispose of his property as he wishes, the Supreme Court has ruled that a will cannot be revoked on the ground that the legal heirs are deprived of their share, reports Amit Anand Chaudhary.A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Vijay Bishnoi held that exclusion…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a PIL challenging the validity of a PIL by parents and teachers from NCR and Chennai. CBSEIts recent policy mandated three languages, two of which must be Indian for class 9, saying it would lead to chaos and confusion.For the urgent hearing of the PIL,…

NEW DELHI: The government has taken steps to stop container piling at India’s busiest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) (Mumbai) and constituted a panel of top officials to clear bottlenecks at 12 major ports. It will meet every week or fortnight to resolve business concerns. The issue of around 35,000-40,000 inbound containers at…

New Delhi: Supreme Court A question was raised on Friday as to why children from economically and educationally better families among the backward classes should be allowed to get the benefit of reservation under the OBC category.“If both the parents are IAS officers, why should they get reservation? There is social mobility with education and…

New Delhi: India and Cyprus upgraded their ties to a strategic partnership, launched a roadmap for defense cooperation and signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint working group against terrorism as Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted President Nicos Christodoulides for talks. Modi said relations with Cyprus, which currently holds the presidency of the…

SRINAGAR: The BJP on Friday launched a poster campaign targeting Omar Abdullah while he was on a personal visit to London, describing the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister as “missing” and seeking “information about his whereabouts”.The posters were shared on J&K BJP’s official social media handles and circulated on WhatsApp. The posters say “missing man…

New Delhi: A major power outage occurred in Gurugram on Thursday after a fire broke out in the main transformer of a 220 kVA power station in Sector-72, disrupting power supply to various parts of the city. Sandeep Chugh, PRO, South Haryana Bijli Bitran Nigam (DHBVN), Gurugram, said, “A power outage occurred in Gurugram after…

New Delhi: RSSNational propaganda chief Sunil Ambekar said on Friday that the Sangh was not strong enough at the time of partition and claimed that “otherwise the country would not have been divided”.Ambekar made these comments while speaking at the screening of the documentary “Delhi Mein Sangh Yatra” presented by the Indraprastha Vishwasambad Kendra in…

Climbers walk in a long line as they move from Camp 3 to Camp 4 on the way to climb Mount Everest in Solukhumbu district, also known as the Everest region. (Reuters) Two Indian climbers – Hyderabad-based tech professional Arun Kumar Tiwari and Sandeep Aray, 46 – died during the descent. Mount Everest After reaching…