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- India
Petition filed to challenge EWS reservation, questions tax slab
A petition, that could question the authenticity of the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) 10 percent reservation, was filed at the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court challenging the Supreme Court’s latest…
- Hyderabad
IT raids on Telangana minister, kin in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The Income Tax department carried out searches at the residence and offices of Telangana Labour Minister Malla Reddy and his relatives in and around Hyderabad on Tuesday. The IT teams launched…
- India
UP government to investigate income source of unrecognized Madrassas
Lucknow: After conducting a survey, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government decided to investigate the income sources of the unrecognized madrassas, situated in the border districts of Uttar Pradesh. In the survey conducted…
- World
162 killed as quake jolts Indonesia’s Java
Djakarta: At least 162 people were killed and hundreds more injured as a 5.6 intensity earthquake shook Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday, reports said. The quake struck Cianjur town in…
- India
Maha: Governor, spokesperson’s remarks on Shivaji unsettle BJP
Maharashtra Governor BS Koshyari on Saturday said Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was an icon of the “olden days” in a speech in which he also referred to Dr BR Ambedkar and Union minister Nitin Gadkari…
- World
Indonesia: 20 dead as 5.4 magnitude earthquake rattles Java
Jakarta: Nearly 20 people died and around 300 received injuries as an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 rocked Indonesia’s western province of West Java on Monday. The quake’s tremors were also felt throughout…
- India
Circumstantial evidence, forensic exam key in Mehrauli murder investigation: Experts
New Delhi: A week since the arrest of Aaftab Amin Poonawala, police have been scouring for evidence to nail him in court for the murder of Shradha Walkar but it remains a…
- India
COP27 ends with compensation fund; heeds India’s call for sustainability
New Delhi: The UN climate summit in Egypt concluded on Sunday with a landmark decision to establish a fund to address loss and damage, but the outcome on other crucial issues such…
- World
How China promotes inter-ethnic marriages between Uyghur women and Han ‘suitors’
Washington: China is mixing financial, educational and career incentives with coercive measures to families under state policies to promote intermarriage between majority Han Chinese and ethnic minority Uyghurs in the restive Xinjiang…
- World
US: 5 killed, 18 injured in gay nightclub shooting in Colorado
Washington: In another case of a mass shooting in the United States, five people were killed and another 18 were injured in a shooting incident at a gay nightclub “Club Q”, in…
- India
Anti-conversion law: MP govt to move SC against interim relief from action given to interfaith couples
Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh government is going to move the Supreme Court to challenge the high court’s interim order restraining it from prosecuting interfaith couples who enter wedlock without informing the district…
- World
COP27 ends with historic decision on damage fund, little progress on other issues
.New Delhi: While the UN climate summit in Egypt concluded with a landmark decision to establish a fund to address loss and damage, the outcome on other crucial issues like phaseout of…
- India
Marriage of Muslims is not excluded from POCSO Act: Kerala HC
Kochi: Kerala High Court has held that marriage between Muslims under personal law is not excluded from the sweep of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Court also ruled…
- India
ED files charge sheet against PFI, 3 members
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed a charge sheet against the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) and its three members in a special court in Delhi in connection…
- India
Retired bureaucrat Arun Goel appointed as new Election Commissioner
Retired bureaucrat Arun Goel appointed was appointed by the President of India as the new Election Commissioner on Saturday. Goel, a 1985-class Punjab cadre officer, will serve on the election panel with…
