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Aizawl, Nov 14 (PTI) Mizoram's main opposition party Mizo National Front (MNF) president Zoramthanga on Friday attributed the collective efforts and dedication of party workers for the MNF winning the by-election to the Dampa assembly seat in Mamit district. In the Dampa Assembly bypoll, MNF candidate Dr R Lalthangliana defeated his nearest rival, Vanlalsailova of the ruling Zoram People's Movement (ZPM), by a margin of 562 votes, according to the results announced by the Election Commission. ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) India's adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the justice system remains human-supervised, ethically guided and privacy-conscious, Union Minister of State for Law and Justice, Arjun Ram Meghwal said on Friday. The minister made the comments at the 10th OECD Global Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice, held in Madrid during the Justice Leaders Dialogue on the theme "Data-driven and resilient justice systems for shared prosperity. "India's adoption of AI in the jus ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) The Union government has released Fifteenth Finance Commission (XV FC) grants during the financial year 2025-26 for rural local bodies in Assam, the Panchayati Raj Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said it entails the second instalment of untied grants of the financial year 2024-25 amounting to Rs 219.24 crore. These funds are for all eligible 27 district panchayats, all eligible 182 block panchayats and all eligible 2,192 gram panchayats of the state. Further, ...Read More >
Lucknow, Nov 14 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday congratulated the voters, workers and office bearers of the NDA for their resounding victory in the Bihar Assembly elections. He also termed the victory as a "testament to the people of Bihar's unwavering faith in the development-oriented guidance" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a post on X in Hindi, Adityanath said, "Hearty congratulations to the dedicated workers and office bearers of the BJP-NDA alliance for t ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Nov 14 (PTI) The Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election victory is a shot in the arm for Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who made the poll a prestigious battle for the party and further consolidated his position. With the win, the Congress's tally in the 119-member Assembly rose to 66. This is the second bypoll the party has won in the last two years. Congress candidate V Naveen Yadav on Friday won the by-election to the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency -- crucial for both the ruling ...Read More >
Visakhapatnam, Nov 14 (PTI) World Trade Organization Chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Friday said India should take the leadership role in reform process at the WTO amid growing uncertainties at global trade front. She said that India's economy is growing at a healthy pace and it is a leader in areas such as technology. She said that there is a need to look at areas in the WTO which are not working and discuss ways to correct that. "'...and here India can be a leader, India should be a leader in ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) Ruling parties Friday lost four of the eight seats where assembly bypolls were held on November 11 with the Congress bagging one seat in BJP-ruled Rajasthan and the PDP handing the National Conference its first ever defeat in its stronghold of Budgam in Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP won the Nagrota seat in Jammu and Kashmir and Mizoram's main opposition party, Mizo National Front (MNF), retained the Dampa assembly seat with its candidate R Lalthangliana defeating Vanlalsail ...Read More >
New Delhi: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)'s support proved crucial for the Congress in the Jubilee Hills by-elections in Telangana as the ruling party registered a comfortable win over the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) of former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, popularly known as KCR. It is said that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy had "managed" AIMIM chief and Hyderabad Lok Sabha member Asaduddin Owaisi to support the Congress candidate, V Naveen Yadav. There are over 1.20 ...Read More >
Srinagar/Budgam (J&K), Nov 14 (PTI) Opposition PDP candidate Aga Syed Muntazir on Friday won the Budgam assembly bypoll in Jammu and Kashmir, defeating ruling National Conference (NC) candidate Aga Syed Mehmood by a margin of nearly 4,500 votes. This is the first time that the NC has lost in its bastion of Budgam, in central Kashmir, since 1957, the first elections for the legislative assembly. According to the data on the ECI website, Muntazir secured 21,576 votes against Mehmood's 17,098 at ...Read More >
Tarn Taran (Punjab), Nov 14 (PTI) Punjab's ruling AAP retained the Tarn Taran assembly seat with its candidate Harmeet Singh Sandhu defeating his nearest rival and SAD nominee Sukhwinder Kaur Randhawa by a margin of 12,091 votes. Harmeet Singh Sandhu secured 42,649 votes against Randhawa's 30,558 after the completion of all 16 rounds of counting, the Election Commission website showed. Celebrations broke out at AAP offices in Tarn Taran and Chandigarh, with party workers dancing to drumbeats a ...Read More >
New Delhi: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has dealt a body blow to the grand old party, the Congress, in the Seemanchal region as it appears set to win six seats. An aggressive campaign by Asaduddin Owaisi in Kishanganj, Katihar, Araria and Purnia districts helped him gain the support of the electorate and eroded the Congress vote bank. The Congress, which contested 61 seats, was banking on a strong performance in this region, but it managed to win only a few seats, while A ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) Police have intensified digital surveillance and are keeping a vigil on various social media platforms to monitor conversations, reactions and potential leads linked to the Red Fort blast, police sources said on Friday. Multiple specialised teams have been deployed round-the-clock to scan public posts, comments, videos and online discussions to detect any hint of radicalisation, misinformation, provocation or suspicious online activity emerging after the blast, said a so ...Read More >
Budgam (J&K), Nov 14 (PTI) PDP's winning candidate from Budgam Aga Syed Muntazir on Friday said the bypoll verdict of the people is a protest against the ruling National Conference (NC) for not fulfilling its political and developmental promises. Muntazir won the Budgam assembly bypoll in Jammu and Kashmir, defeating ruling National Conference candidate Aga Syed Mehmood by a margin of nearly 4,500 votes. According to the data on the ECI website, Muntazir secured 21,576 votes against Mehmood's ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday termed the NDA's landslide win in the Bihar assembly elections as a victory of good governance, development and the spirit of public welfare and social justice. In a series of posts on X, Modi also congratulated the BJP's alliance partners -- Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, LJP-RV supremo Chirag Paswan, HAM leader Jitan Ram Manjhi and RLM chief Upendra Kushwaha. "Deepest gratitude to my family members of Bihar, who have blessed ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) Sunrisers Hyderabad are set to trade out-of-favour India pacer Mohammed Shami to Lucknow Super Giants ahead of the 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL). SRH had acquired the services of the 35-year-old pacer for Rs 10 crore at the auction last year. "Both franchise have agreed to the trade," a source in the know of things told PTI Shami endured an underwhelming season last year with SRH. In nine outings he managed just six wickets at an average of 56.16 with an economy rate ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 13 (PTI) India faces a significant public health risk from poor-quality PVC resin imports containing carcinogenic compounds at levels up to five times higher than global safety limits, a report by the Centre for Domestic Economy Policy Research (C-DEP.in) said on Thursday. The report, launched at IIT Delhi, revealed that imported PVC resin contains high levels of Residual Vinyl Chloride Monomer (RVCM), classified as a Category 1A carcinogen by the International Agency for Researc ...Read More >
Porbandar, Nov 13 (PTI) Exercise Trishul has set new benchmarks in jointness and interoperability and "we go back much stronger out of it", top Indian military commanders said on Thursday. The nearly two-week-long mega tri-service exercise will draw to a close after the culmination of a final amphibian exercise, Amphex 2025, currently underway at Madhavpur Beach off Saurashtra Coast in Gujarat. Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command; Vice-Admiral Krishna Swam ...Read More >
Patna, Nov 13 (PTI) Leaders across the political spectrum of Bihar on Thursday held hectic parleys and reviewed last-minute preparations as the state was readying for the counting of votes polled in the recently held high-stakes assembly polls that will decide whether Nitish Kumar, the longest-serving chief minister, will get a record fifth term. RJD leader and INDIA bloc's CM candidate Tejashwi Yadav said his party workers and the common people were ready to handle "any unconstitutional activi ...Read More >
Mumbai, Nov 13 (PTI) The rupee consolidated in a narrow range and settled for the day lower by 6 paise at 88.68 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday, as foreign fund outflows and continuous dollar demand from local importers, including oil companies, exerted pressure on the local currency. Forex traders said rupee is trading in a tight range, as overnight decline in crude oil prices and renewed optimism over US-India trade talks providing a steady anchor and restricted the downfall. ...Read More >
Srinagar, Nov 13 (PTI) The mercury dropped across Kashmir, with night temperatures remaining below the freezing point at most places and Srinagar recording the coldest night of the season at minus 2.1 degrees Celsius, Meteorological Department officials said on Thursday. The minimum temperature in Srinagar on Wednesday night was over three degrees below the season's normal. Except for south Kashmir's Kokernag, which recorded a minimum temperature of 1.2 degrees Celsius, all other weather stati ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 13 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has carried out searches at the premises of a businessman and his employees in Mumbai for allegedly evading customs duty to the tune of Rs 190 crore by creating fake export documents to misrepresent goods as being exported to Nepal and Bangladesh, while actually selling them domestically. ED officials said searches were conducted in the case of M/s Titan Sea & Air Services Pvt Ltd and others recorded on the basis of an FIR registered by t ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 13 (PTI) State-owned NBCC Ltd on Friday reported a 25 per cent increase in consolidated net profit to Rs 156.68 crore in the September quarter on higher income. Its net profit stood at Rs 125.13 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 3,017.15 crore in the July-September period of the current fiscal year from Rs 2,512.95 crore in the corresponding period of the preceding year, according to a regulatory filing. NBCC is into engineering, procurement and construction ...Read More >
Jaipur, Nov 13 (PTI) Counting of votes for the bypoll in Rajasthan's Anta assembly constituency will be held on Friday amid tight security arrangements, officials said on Thursday. Voting was held in Anta on Tuesday. "Counting will be held at the seminar hall of the government PG college in Baran district under CCTV surveillance on Friday. All preparations for the counting have been completed," an official of the election commission said. A high voter turnout of 80.21 per cent was recorded in ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 13 (PTI) The National Assessment and Accreditation Council has issued a show-cause notice to Al Falah University -- which is under scanner following the Delhi blast -- for displaying false certification on its website, officials said on Thursday. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is an autonomous government body that evaluates and certifies the quality of higher education institutions like colleges and universities. In its show-cause notice, the NAAC said ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Nov 13 (PTI) A day after retired Lieutenant General D S Hooda, who led the 2016 surgical strikes, accused an escort vehicle of Punjab Police of hitting his car, the state's Director General of Police on Thursday issued directions for respectful and courteous conduct on the road by cops escorting VIPs. Hooda on Wednesday alleged that his vehicle was hit by a Punjab Police vehicle, which was escorting a VIP, on the Zirakpur flyover in Mohali when he was travelling with his wife. He c ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Nov 10 (PTI) A red alert has been sounded in Punjab on Monday evening following a blast near the Red Fort in Delhi that claimed nine lives and left several injured. "In the wake of the blast in New Delhi, a red alert has been sounded across all districts in the state of Punjab," said a Punjab police department spokesperson. Commissioners of police and Senior Superintendents of Police have been asked to remain alert, said the spokesperson. The police force has been deployed at sens ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 11 (PTI) The Iranian embassy on Monday expressed deep sorrow over the loss of lives in a blast near the Red Fort in Delhi that left at least nine people dead and many injured. The high-intensity explosion ripped through a slow-moving car at a traffic signal in the area, gutting several vehicles, officials said. "The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in India expresses its deep sorrow over the loss of lives and injuries of several Indian citizens in the car blast incident i ...Read More >
Srinagar, Nov 10 (PTI) Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Nalin Prabhat on Monday reviewed the counter-terror operations and law and order situation in Bandipora district. During the meeting, Prabhat took a detailed review of the prevailing security situation with special focus on kinetic and non-kinetic counter-terror operations, and initiatives to curb drug abuse and other criminal activities, a police spokesperson said. The director general of police (DGP) visited Bandipora district in north Ka ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 10 (PTI) India and Vietnam on Monday inked a pact to set up a framework for submarine search, rescue and support mechanism in case of any eventualities. The two sides also signed a letter of intent (LoI) to strengthen bilateral defence industry collaboration. The documents were signed after the two sides held the 15th edition of India-Vietnam Defence Policy Dialogue (DPD) in Hanoi. It was co-chaired by Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh and Deputy Minister of National Defence ...Read More >
Ranchi, Nov 10 (PTI) Jharkhand Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Chief Minister Hemant Soren and state BJP president Babulal Marandi on Monday expressed shock over the explosion near Delhi's Red Fort metro station, which left at least eight people dead and several injured. "The incident of the car explosion that occurred in Delhi is extremely tragic and distressing. My deepest condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones in this accident. May God provide strength to the grieving fam ...Read More >
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