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NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee registered her “strongest protest” after the Election Commission barred the rival factions from using party’s name and reserved election symbol in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly bypolls, news agency PTI reported, citing sources.“Mamata submitted response to EC’s interim order seeking three preferred names, symbols “under strongest protest”, at…

NEW DELHI: As Congress members of Parliament’s standing committee on finance sought to dissociate themselves from the panel’s support for MDR on UPI transactions, its chairperson, Bhartruhari Mahtab, questioned their claim, noting their presence in the meeting and being party to the report were matters of record.“It is all on the record. The MPs were…

Putin, Netanyahu, Meloni and US embassy on President Donald Trump’s behalf also sent wishes. NEW DELHI: BJP celebrated PM Narendra Modi’s 76th birthday Thursday with development and political programmes, prayers and diyas nationwide, also marking his unbroken 25-year run as head of govt.Allies Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu of TDP, Maharashtra deputy chief…

NEW DELHI: Air India Express suspended eight crew members for three months for failing to complete the mandatory post-flight declaration, news agency ANI reported, citing sources.The incident took place on August 2 after the flight landed in Amritsar from Dubai.According to ANI, the crew was required to undergo the post-flight declaration within two hours of…

People in Chennai should not alienate Delhi and vice versa, the court said NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday told Tamil Nadu govt that it needed to change its mindset towards teaching Hindi in schools and should thrash out issues with Centre on setting up Navodaya Vidyalayas in every district.As Vijay-led TN govt took the same…

SC last week asked govt to reconsider its decision not to reduce the cut-off percentile NEW DELHI: Nudged by Supreme Court to reduce the cut-off percentile for admission to super specialty medical courses to fill around 2,000 vacant seats, Centre Thursday told the court that the qualifying percentile for NEET-SS may go from the existing…

The bench directed the state chief secretary to submit what remedial measures would be taken to prevent such incidents NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday took strong exception to 31 unnatural deaths in Manipur’s relief camps – set up after the eruption of Kuki-Meitei ethnic clashes in 2023 to shelter internally displaced persons (IDPs) – including…

Kharge and Rahul Gandhi targeted BJP over “malgovernance” and “lighting of diyas” New Delhi: Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi targeted BJP over “malgovernance” and “lighting of diyas” during its lamp-lighting campaign for PM Narendra Modi’s birthday.“In Balaghat, more than 30 tribal children have died amid illness, malnutrition and a lack of basic health facilities. The…

The Odisha government had rejected a plea of Hindutva activist Dara Singh for premature release from prison in the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday allowed Dara Singh to amend his petition to challenge Odisha govt’s rejection of his remission plea after the state informed the court about its decision….

EC barred both factions from using party symbol, name in Bengal bypolls NEW DELHI: Election Commission Friday froze All India Trinamool Congress‘s reserved “flowers and grass” poll symbol after acknowledging a split between factions led by Mamata Banerjee and Arup Roy.Pending final settlement, neither faction can use AITC’s name or symbol. For Oct 6 assembly…