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Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi JAISALMER: Pakistan must stop supporting terrorism if it wants to “remain on the world map”, Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi declared Friday, warning that India will not show the restraint it exercised during Operation Sindoor.Dwivedi’s address to soldiers near the Pakistan border in Anupgarh of Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar district followed a…
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh High Court has termed right to a dignified death and cremation an intrinsic part of the fundamental right to life enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution. The observation came Monday in response to a PIL registered suo motu by division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru over…
JAIPUR: Rajasthan HC Thursday ordered the commercial taxes department to release within seven days the full salary and arrears of one of its officers who has been without pay for over a year since slipping into a coma in Aug 2023.HC passed the order after hearing a plea by the officer’s wife. The petitioner’s counsel…
Around three-fourth of all prison inmates in India in 2023 were undertrials, according to the latest report released by NCRB. The numbers are staggering: India has 5.3 lakh people in jail; of them, 3.9 lakh are yet to be convicted — they are on trial.But this is actually an improvement over the previous years. The…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur Skill University on Saturday. By honouring Thakur, NDA govt signalled a strategic outreach to these communities and reinforced backward caste consolidation in the poll-bound state.The launch anchors a series of Bihar-centric youth empowerment initiatives worth over Rs 62,000 crore nationally, with a sharp focus…
MUMBAI: Bombay HC dismissed Friday a writ petition filed by Anil Ambani against SBI, challenging its decision to classify the loan account of Reliance Communications as “fraud”. SBI’s order dated June 13, 2025 said Ambani shall be reported to RBI.Challenging the order, Ambani claimed principles of natural justice were flouted and that he was granted…
Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to four years in prison on prostitution charges, though he was acquitted of more serious sex-trafficking charges earlier this year. The verdict wrapped up a major scandal involving the music industry, as Diddy was accused of torturing, sexual abuse, organizing freak-off parties, trafficking, etc. In the trial, he was cleared…
PUNE: The season’s first cyclonic storm over the Arabian Sea has intensified into ‘Cyclone Shakti’ on Friday, the IMD stated. Currently centred about 250km west-southwest of Gujarat’s Dwarka, the system is expected to strengthen into a severe cyclonic storm by Saturday. While forecasters said it is unlikely to have a significant impact on the Indian…
NEW DELHI: The NCERT has rolled out special classroom modules on ‘swadeshi’, tracing its roots from 1905 anti-partition agitation in Bengal to PM Narendra Modi’s call for a self-reliant India.The publications, ‘Swadeshi: Vocal for Local’ (for middle stage) and ‘Swadeshi: For a Self-Reliant India’ (for secondary stage), revisits the historic movement that urged Indians to…
BHIWANDI: A 32-year-old powerloom worker who allegedly raped and murdered a six-year-old girl in Bhiwandi in 2023 and fled from a court two months ago struck once again barely 2km away on Wednesday.He allegedly raped and strangled a seven-year-old neighbour, left the body in a gunny sack and fled. He was caught the same night…
