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NEW DELHI: Average rainfall in India during the second half of monsoon season (Aug-Sept) is most likely to be ‘below normal’, IMD said Friday, flagging the continuing risk of El Niño, which is associated with a weak monsoon.Last month, IMD had cited El Niño’s impact to forecast below normal rains in July. The month’s rainfall…

Nearly 16.4% of the electorate in Haryana and 10.8% in Andhra Pradesh were excluded in draft voter rolls published for the two states Friday as part of phase 3 of special intensive revision (SIR).In Haryana, the total strength of electors in the draft roll was 83.6% of 2.1 crore at the start of SIR on…

Zubair Baloch — the brother of jailed Pakistan gangster Uzair Baloch, whose ruthless ascent was dramatised in the movie ‘Dhurandhar’ — is learned to be critically wounded following a targeted drive-by shooting in Karachi’s Lyari neighbourhood on Thursday evening, reports .The 40-year-old was sitting outside his Singu Lane home when two masked assailants on a…

NEW DELHI: Petrol would have cost around Rs 125 a litre in the national capital when global crude prices touched $135 a barrel had oil companies not blended ethanol into the auto fuel, the petroleum ministry said on Friday, defending the programme against what it described as “misleading” claims about its costs, impact on food…

Dismisses Plea Against Bail To ‘Mastermind’ NEW DELHI: Implementing its view that bail granted by a HC should not be ordinarily challenged in the apex court, Supreme Court Friday dismissed Uttarakhand’s appeal questioning the grant of bail to one Abdul Malik, the alleged mastermind of a mob that hurled a petrol bomb to torch a…

Neeraj Chopra won the silver medal, while Yashvir Singh pulled off a surprise bronze with his final throw as India had two athletes on the podium in the men’s javelin throw at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Friday.Neeraj, the 28-year-old Tokyo Olympic champion, was not at his best in difficult weather but still managed…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court which is already examining petitions challenging the practice of talaq-e-hasan, Friday sought the Centre’s view on a new PIL seeking a ban on polygamy among Muslims and securing the rights of women, aggrieved by marriage of Muslim husbands during subsistence of first marriage, over the matrimonial home and maintenance.A bench of…

NEW DELHI: Frowning upon “interference” by the joint secretary of the then chief minister of Rajasthan in May 2018 in a matter of granting sanction to prosecute a govt official, Supreme Court has directed the state to pay 1 lakh to the official for harassing him.A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K Vinod…

TOI correspondent from London: Economic fugitive Vijay Mallya invited fellow billionaire Nirav Modi to his multi-million-pound townhouse overlooking Regent’s Park where the pair discussed their respective exiles when the latter was living freely in London before his arrest, the final podcast of the “Diamond King”, released Friday, claims.A source in the diamond trade who tipped…

Mukesh Khanna calls CJP ‘sponsored’, says they don’t represent students or Gen Z amid abusive language against PM Narendra Modi: ‘Ye log sarkar girane…’ Veteran actor Mukesh Khanna has weighed in on the ongoing controversy surrounding the recent Gen Z protests, reacting to the self-styled Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and backing criticism over the alleged…