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New Delhi: Election petition should not be rejected at the very threshold where there is a “substantial compliance” of law, the Supreme Court on Friday said as it dismissed a plea of Manipur MLA challenging the decision of the high court which refused to dismiss a plea against her election.A…

New Delhi: The government on Friday scrapped the minimum price thresholds for onion and basmati rice to boost outbound shipments and enhance farmers’ income.The decision to remove the Minimum Export Price (MEP) on both onion and basmati rice comes ahead of assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana.Haryana along with Punjab…

  New Delhi ,September 13: The Supreme Court has granted bail to Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the corruption case related to the alleged excise policy scam. The case was registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has…

  Srinagar September 12: J&K State Committee CPI(M) pays rich tributes to Comrade Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary CPI(M), who passed away today after a brief illness in AIIMS, New Delhi. Comrade Yechury joined the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) in 1974. He was elected as national President of SFI. A…

NEW DELHI, Sep 8: A man who recently travelled from a country experiencing mpox transmission has been identified as a suspected case of the disease, the Union health ministry said on Sunday. The patient has been isolated at a designated hospital and is currently stable, it said, adding that there is…

  New Delhi: Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Sunday called for collective efforts to break the common perception that justice delivery system in India suffers from “taarikh pe taarikh culture” and asserted such efforts will strengthen the trust factor among citizens.He also proposed a critical analysis of ‘aging of…

  Dehradun: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday questioned the silence of certain NGOs on the violence against a “health warrior” at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, terming the incident as “barbarity expressed in extremity”.Addressing students and faculty members at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in…

  New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday said delay in court decisions in heinous crimes, like rape, forces the common man to think that the judicial process lacks sensitivity, even as she called for a change in ‘culture of adjournments’ in the judiciary.She said longstanding pendency and backlog of…

  SRINAGAR ÷ The India’s apex court on Wednesday (Aug 28) emphasised that the high court, under Section 482 CrPC, is empowered to quash an FIR even when the charge sheet is filed. This, the apex court said should be done when the court believes that continuing the proceedings would…