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New Delhi: NDA allies offered full support to three bills during the Lok Sabha debate on Friday.South ally TDP’s floor leader Lavu Sri Krishna Devrayalu said his party would support bills to pave the way for restrictions and reservations for women based on “guarantees” given by Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Modi.He referred…

New Delhi: After announcing on April 16, 2026, the date from which the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023 – one-third seats in the House of the People and the Assemblies of the Union Territory of Delhi would be reserved for women – will not come into force from April 20, Friday. From…

New Delhi: Flight operations have resumed at the Pune airport after an incident involving an Indian Air Force aircraft was completed on “war footing”.In a social media post at X, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Muralidhar Mohal said that runway repair work at Pune airport has been completed and air traffic is expected…

NEW DELHI: A victorious opposition party hailed the defeat of the Constitutional Amendment Bill as a defeat for restrictions and not women’s protection.After the opposition won the polls, Congress’ Rahul Gandhi spoke to TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee and thanked him for his support.There were concerns that only a few of the 28 TMC MPs might make…

New Delhi: Home Minister Dr Amit Shah Friday strongly defended the delimitation proposal, saying the current freeze on Lok Sabha seats since 1976 violated the constitutional principle of “one person, one vote, one value”, reported Kumar Rakesh. He said that the number of voters in many constituencies had increased so much that an MP could…

KOLKATA: With just 72 hours to go before the Supreme Court’s deadline from Saturday to add voters cleared by the SIR tribunal, the Election Commission is yet to name a person whose voting rights have been restored and who can contest the first phase of the Bengal Assembly polls on April 23. More than 27…

New Delhi: Supreme Court Congress on Friday rejected leader Pawan Khera’s plea for interim protection till Tuesday from his arrest and asked him to seek anticipatory bail from an Assam court, where the chief minister has lodged an FIR against him. Himanta Biswa Sharmahis wife A bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and AS Chandukar refused…

New Delhi: The head priest of the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple, whose custom of barring entry to menstruating women was abolished in 2018, said on Friday Supreme Court Dhananjaya Mohapatra reports that the rights and wrongs of idol worship practices, which are central to Hinduism, are judicially undetermined, while rituals are peculiar to each deity’s manifestation….

New Delhi: An incident involving an Indian Air Force (IAF) plane on the Pune runway on Friday temporarily halted operations at the airport. The IAF, however, clarified that the airmen are safe.In a post on social media platform X, the IAF said, “The Pune runway is temporarily unavailable due to an incident involving an IAF…

Pahalgam Valley (PTI Photo) Haptnar (Anantnag): His scorched hands and bullet-riddled body told a story of courage and sacrifice. Poni-wallah Syed Adil Hussain Shah, who grabbed the barrel of a terrorist’s rifle to save tourists during the horrific massacre in Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley last year, came to embody the spirit of Kashmir and the spirit…