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Hyderabad: Justice B Sudershan Reddy, INDIA bloc’s nominee for vice president and a former Supreme Court judge, is best remembered for his landmark 2011 judgment which declared the controversial Salwa Judum militia in Chhattisgarh as unconstitutional. The militia was later disbanded.His ruling, rooted in the protection of fundamental rights, underscored that state-sponsored vigilantism could not…

Justice (retired) B Sudershan Reddy NEW DELHI: Opposition’s candidate for vice president post, Justice B Sudershan Reddy, on Tuesday said he accepted INDIA bloc’s candidature as an opportunity to propagate the ideals of the Constitution – equality, fraternity, liberty and dignity – which are very “dear to him for past 55 years”.Shortly after opposition announced…

NEW DELHI: The Indian gaming industry, which till just a few years back was seen as a sunrise sector, was shell-shocked by govt’s proposed move to ban “online money game”, claiming it would sound the death knell for firms. Industry experts pointed out that the measure would put 4 lakh companies, 2 lakh jobs, investments…

KOCHI: The year M A Abdullah Maulavi was born marked the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, a decade of rapid tech transformation. Little did the now 105-year-old Kerala native know that it would take him another century and more to find his tech mojo as a “fully digi-literate” person able to use a smartphone. “I…

NEW DELHI: Keeping aside objections of Kerala and Tamil Nadu govts on the maintainability of the Presidential reference, Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would give its opinion on the President’s 14 queries if it finds these raising important questions of law on SC’s power to fix timelines for her and governors in granting, withholding…

Indira Gandhi and son Sanjay in a file photo from 1977 NEW DELHI: Over 1.07 crore people were sterilised during the National Emergency from 1975 to 1977, exceeding the “targets” set by the then Indira Gandhi govt by 60%, as per the findings of the Justice J C Shah Commission shared by the Union home…

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, deputy CM DK Shivakumar BENGALURU: Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has cautioned that the five guarantee schemes launched by the Siddaramaiah-led Congress govt are exerting considerable strain on Karnataka’s finances, wiping out the fiscal recovery achieved after the Covid-19 years and eating into capital spending.In its report on state finances…

MUMBAI: Tuesday’s heavy rain, which justified IMD’s red alert, crippled Mumbai more than Monday’s, with 400 residents from low-lying areas around Mithi river evacuated after water levels rose, several roads waterlogged, 11 flights diverted to other airports and 24 arriving flights forced to do a ‘go-around’. One person was electrocuted after coming into contact with…

Chasoti (Kishtwar) flash floods CHASOTI (KISHTWAR): Almost as many severed limbs as intact bodies have been recovered in Chasoti in the past two days after the flash floods, leaving villagers and doctors at Atholi sub-district hospital, 30km downhill from the affected area, shaken. On Monday, one intact body and a severed leg were retrieved. On…

JAMMU: Bodies of two flash flood victims, including a minor girl, were found on Tuesday after intensive searches in Jammu’s Rajouri and Poonch districts, while Army troops, in a swift rescue operation, evacuated several people stranded on an island in the swollen Poonch River in Lower Kuniyan area of Poonch.According to officials, a search and…