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PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court has directed the Uttar Pradesh govt to ensure that anyone who converts to Christianity automatically forfeits all Scheduled Caste benefits, failing which it would be construed as a “fraud on the Constitution and contrary to the ethos of reservation policies”.Justice Praveen Kumar Giri’s Nov 21 order cites Paragraph 3 of the…

‘Tere Ishk Mein’ is emerging as a full-blown box office triumph. The Anand L Rai directorial, starring Dhanush and Kriti Sanon, has lived up to its pre-release momentum and is now racing toward the coveted Rs 100 crore net mark at the Indian box office.Tere Ishk Mein Movie Review Day 5 box office collections According…

HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday addressed the executive meeting of the state Congress, highlighting the diversity within the party and drawing an analogy with Hindu religion.“The Congress takes along all types of individuals. One says he will worship Lord Venkateswara, another says he will worship Hanuman. When we could not bring…

KOLKATA: Even if a candidate under the reserved category scored higher than the cut-off marks and was upgraded to general category, s/he would continue to enjoy benefits of the former category, Calcutta high court held Tuesday.The directive came after an SSC candidate, who made it to the first list of the 2025 SLST exam, moved…

NEW DELHI: The protection enjoyed by a woman under Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) is not available in proceedings related to Foreign Exchange Management Act (Fema), which is governed by civil law, Delhi high court has ruled.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna dismissed a writ petition filed by a 53-year-old Canadian citizen challenging ED summons issued under…

NEW DELHI: Ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit for the India-Russia annual summit, Moscow has backed oil trade with India saying sanctions against Russian companies will cause only an insignificant dip in India’s imports from Russia.Briefing the media, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said both sides were working to find ways to not allow volume…

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar meets newly elected Speaker of Bihar assembly Prem Kumar (ANI photo) PATNA: BJP’s Prem Kumar, who won the Gaya Town assembly seat for a record ninth time in the recent Bihar elections, was unanimously elected assembly speaker on Tuesday, succeeding his party colleague Nand Kishore Yadav.Kumar, 70, was the only one…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday asked EC to ‘sympathetically’ consider Kerala govt’s request for extending the deadline for completion of SIR of state voters list by a week beyond the conclusion of local body elections on Dec 13.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi told Kerala govt to submit a representation…

NEW DELHI: Almost 83% of the total Rs 915 crore political donations routed through the Tata group-controlled Progressive Electoral Trust (PET) in 2024-25 went to BJP, while Congress’ share was a mere 8.4%.A perusal of the contribution reports of various electoral trusts (ET) for 2024-25, now available on the Election Commission website, indicates that the…

JAISALMER: An Indian Army tank sank in the Indira Gandhi Canal during a routine military exercise in Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar district on Tuesday morning, resulting in the death of one jawan.The incident occurred during a training exercise aimed at practising how to cross the canal with armoured vehicles, local police said. The Army was yet to…