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Union Home Minister Amit Shah (ANI photo) New Delhi: Union Home Minister Dr Amit Shah announced on Friday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be implemented by the RSS and its party aspirants Uniform Civil Code (UCC) after coming to power in West Bengal elections.Shah, who has pulled out all the stops ahead of…

Biker meets with accident during Vijay’s roadshow in Sivaganga (ANI) New Delhi: In yet another incident during the Tamilga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) chief’s election campaign victoryA bike rider met with an accident during the actor-politician’s roadshow in Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga on Friday.The incident was caught on camera.Footage shared by news agency ANI showed a group…

New Delhi: Janata Dal (United) supremo Dr Nitish Kumar He was sworn in as a Rajya Sabha MP on Friday, months after taking oath Bihar Chief Minister in record tenth term.Kumar’s move to the upper house, which surprised many when it was announced last month, paves the way for the BJP, a JD(U) ally, to…

Lt Col Srikanth Purohit (file photo) New Delhi: Lt Col Prasad Srikant Purohit, acquitted in the Malegaon blast case last year, has been cleared for promotion to the rank of Brigadier, sources said on Friday. In July 2025, an NIA court acquitted six people, including the priest and former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur, in…

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld a trial court’s order declaring UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari a “fugitive economic offender” in a money laundering case. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna found no merit in the appeal filed by the fugitive and dismissed it. In July 2025, a trial court declared Bhandari a “fugitive…

Silchar: BSF personnel deployed vehicles and opened border gates early on Thursday to help at least 70 families living across the barbed wire fence along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Assam’s Sribhoomi district to reach polling stations and cast their votes, making the exercise a powerful claim of identity for residents of Karimganj South assembly constituency….

KOLKATA: The parents of Sunali Khatun, 26, a Bengali woman pushed to Bangladesh as “illegal immigrants” last year, have their names on the electoral roll, strengthening her claim to citizenship even as a legal battle continues to move her husband and other relatives to the neighboring country.Sunali’s mother Jyotsna Bibi was among the millions “under…

Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday saw a record voter turnout, with Election Commission officials describing it as a “validation” of intensive revision and revision of voter lists and a sign of people’s “unwavering confidence in the electoral process”. Voter turnout exceeded previous peaks – reaching an all-time high of 91.2% in…

New Delhi: An Indian Army contingent has left for Egypt to take part in the fourth edition of the India-Egypt joint special forces exercise – Cyclone-IV – conducted in Anshas from April 9-17.The exercise follows the continuation of growing military cooperation between the two countries and the successful conduct of previous editions in India. According…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday expressed concern over the arguments supporting community-based restrictions on temples and mutts, saying such exclusion could adversely affect Hinduism and divide society.A nine-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant made the remarks while hearing a batch of petitions related to discrimination against women at religious places, including…