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LUCKNOW: In 1973, Yogendra Narain, a young IAS officer, was posted to Muzaffarnagar as district magistrate. Soon after, a group of men from the Banwariya community sought his intervention, accusing the police of harassment. The Banwariyas, a decriminalised community, still bore the stigma of the pre-1947 British law that branded them as a tribe of…

KOLKATA: Complying with the Supreme Court’s seven-day deadline, the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Saturday released a list of 1,804 “specifically tainted” candidates who have been barred from appearing in the Sept 7 and Sept 14 fresh recruitment examinations due to discrepancies in their 2016 State Level Selection Test (SLST) appointments.Among them, 1,400…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said that Moscow and Beijing are “united in strengthening” the Brics grouping, positioning it as a counterweight to what he called “discriminatory sanctions” hampering the economic progress of many nations. Speaking to China’s Xinhua News Agency ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin, Putin stressed that…

JAIPUR: Former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar (74), has sought the restoration of his pension as a former legislator from the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. The request before the state assembly was made under the provisions of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (Officers and Members Emoluments and Pension) Act, 1956, which governs salaries and pensions for former MLAs.Dhankhar represented…

GURGAON: The arrests of 42 bank employees in cybercrime cases over the past year have helped the city cops map out the multiple ways in which fraudsters find their targets and manage to evade scrutiny.Police said bank staffers involved in the scam often leaked data of their customers, alerted fraudsters if cops came looking, and…

BHUBANESWAR: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday said opposition parties will be persuaded to participate in the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) examining three bills that propose the automatic removal of the Prime Minister, Union ministers, CMs and state/UT ministers, if detained for 30 consecutive days on serious criminal charges.Addressing a news conference in Bhubaneswar,…

CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court has suspended the sentence of controversial preacher of Satlok Ashram Barwala, Rampal, who has been behind bars for more than 10 years after being convicted of the murder of a female follower inside the ashram in 2014.A division bench comprising Justice Gurvinder Singh Gill and Justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa…

NEW DELHI: There are no permanent friends or enemies in international relations, only permanent interests, defence minister Rajnath Singh stressed on Saturday, amid the tariff tension with US and the thaw in India-China relations.India will “never compromise with its fundamental interests and principles”, and will remain steadfast on its policies and self-reliance drive to preserve…

PRAYAGRAJ: Holding that a Hindu marriage does not become invalid merely because it is not registered, the Allahabad high court has clarified that a family court cannot insist on the production of marriage registration certificate in a petition filed for divorce on mutual consent. “It is settled that the registration certificate of a marriage is…

NEW DELHI: India’s peak outbound travel month of June saw a decline in the number of Indian visitors to the US in 2025 over the previous year for the first time this millennium, barring the Covid period.With 2.1 lakh Indians headed to America in June, the number was 8% lower than 2.3 lakh in same…