Representative image (File) NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday shared details of its ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar, revealing that 98.01 per cent of voters have been covered in the exercise so far, as of July 23.According to officials, the revision has identified nearly 20 lakh deceased…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra has moved the Supreme Court against the Election Commission of India‘s (ECI) move to conduct a special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, calling the process a direct threat to democratic rights. In a scathing critique, Moitra accused the poll body of acting at the behest…
NEW DELHI: A delegation of 11 opposition parties met the Election Commission on Wednesday and objected the ongoing intensive revision of the electoral rolls in Bihar just months ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.The delegation dubbed the exercise as “Votebandi” and claimed that this will put democracy in the state “under threat”Briefing the media after…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday asserted that the enactment of the three new criminal laws was an exercise in “cut and paste”, a day after Union home minister Amit Shah described the new laws as the “biggest reforms since Independence.”Also Read | ‘Affordable, accessible and approachable’: Amit…
Sections 132 and 134 of Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, protect lawyer-client communications from disclosure. The Enforcement Directorate message to Venugopal read, “Please refer to the trail mail in this regard. The summons for June 24 issued to you hereby stands withdrawn with immediate effect.”By afternoon, the SC Bar Association’s executive body, led by senior advocate…
NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday announced that the next nationwide census will commence on March 1, 2027. However, in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, and Uttarakhand, the census process is expected to begin earlier, from October 2026.The nationwide census will also for the first time in over seven decades, include caste enumeration. The move marks…
As the tensions between India and Pakistan continue to escalate, neighbouring country China has issued an advisory to its citizens. According to the Global Times, the Chinese Embassies in both countries issued statements on their official WeChat accounts – a Chinese social media platform – on Friday afternoon. The statement advised Chinese citizens to closely…
NEW DELHI: India and the US on Tuesday will kick off their major tri-service exercise called ‘Tiger Triumph’ in the Bay of Bengal, with a focus on enhancing military interoperability for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) and crisis situations.The two week-long exercise, with a harbour phase at Visakhapatnam and then massive maritime and amphibious…
Many people use a smartwatch to monitor their cardiovascular health, often by counting the number of steps they take over the course of their day, or recording their average daily heart rate. Now, researchers are proposing an enhanced metric, which combines the two using basic math: Divide your average daily heart rate by your daily…
NEW DELHI: India-China diplomatic talks may now be taking a slightly “positive” trajectory but the armed forces continue to hone their high-altitude combat skills through intensive exercises, while the Army is raising a new infantry division of around 15,000 soldiers as part of its continuing rejig of forces and firepower for the northern borders.‘Prachand Prahar…