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SIR appeals pile up in WB, EC says hike number of tribunals NEW DELHI: The innumerable voters in West Bengal who were removed from the electoral rolls after special intensive revision (SIR) may not be able to vote for more than a decade as appellate tribunals set up by Supreme Court could take more than…

A Sable Shearwater chick leaves Lord Howe Island only once as a fledgling, having never flown further than its burrow entrance, never fed itself, and never seen the open ocean. Researchers at Adrift Lab attached solar-powered GPS tags to thirty of these young birds as they prepared to leave in 2022 and 2024, tracking where…

​Bill Goldberg, PC: Wikipedia WWE Hall of Famer and former NFL player Bill Goldberg listed his Eagle Mountain Estate in Bonsall, California, for $3.2 million in November 2019, after spending two decades expanding the property around the home he bought in 1999. Goldberg paid about $1 million for the original estate, which covered roughly 17.5…

NEW DELHI: A day after he addressed the fifth edition of his youth outreach programme ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ in Indore, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi Sunday asked govt why there weren’t adequate hostel facilities for students and sought the status of the investigation into the Satya Niketan building collapse.In a post in Hindi on X, the…

GST gains fade as rising costs dilute price cuts, leaving sectors with mixed outcomes NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A year after GST rationalisation, higher commodity prices have eroded a large part of the gains with prices of several products – from food to consumer goods and automobiles – slowly inching up.Within the multiple segments that saw rate…

The appointees were judicial officers who were earlier recommended by Supreme Court collegium to be elevated to the different HCs NEW DELHI: The law ministry has notified the appointment of 14 new judges to four high courts, which include Delhi, Karnataka, Jharkhand, and J&K and Ladakh. The oath of office to the judges will be…

NEW DELHI: Criticising the use of muscle power by financiers to get back hypothecated vehicles, Supreme Court has told one of them to pay Rs 15 lakh to a truck owner who had taken a loan of Rs 10.4 lakh to buy the vehicle.Nearly two years after sanctioning the loan in June 2021, Cholamandalam Investment…

The International Criminal Court building is seen in The Hague, Netherlands (File photo) The Trump administration is preparing sweeping sanctions against the International Criminal Court that could restrict most of the Hague-based tribunal’s financial transactions and potentially cut it off from much of the global banking system, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing…

NEW DELHI: Around 93% of those whose cases have been decided so far over not being able to vote in the West Bengal polls this year because of doubts raised about their eligibility during Election Commission’s SIR drive have won their appeals and have been included in the electoral roll. However, 8,649 of 1.2 lakh…

A screen displays preliminary results of Russia’s parliamentary election during a briefing at the headquarters of the Central Election Commission in Moscow Russia on Sunday wrapped up its first parliamentary election since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party widely expected to retain its overwhelming control of the…