New Delhi: Delhi Police has cited the possibility of “serious” law and order concerns and inconvenience to residents and citizens to deny permission to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) for its proposed protest at Jantar Mantar on October 10. In a letter addressed to the party’s co-convenor Saurav Das and joint secretary Balkrishna, the Deputy…
New Delhi: Delhi is under an unprecedented security blanket, with around 25,000 police and paramilitary personnel deployed across the city. Forty-five metro stations face entry and exit restrictions, and surveillance has been increased at the national capital’s borders, railway stations, bus terminals and other sensitive locations ahead of a proposed protest by the Cockroach Janta…
New Delhi: Leaders of the opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on Friday met President Droupadi Murmu and flagged the issue of its ‘vote chori‘ claims to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and repeal of all assembly polls held in the last two years, with Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi…
New Delhi: To prevent bulk or malicious attempts to remove legitimate voters from electoral rolls, the Election Commission on Friday introduced specific caps on how many Form 7 applications a single registered elector can submit. These restrictions apply equally, whether the forms are submitted online or offline. During the special period designated for filing claims…
Kolkata: The BJP on Friday swept the West Bengal assembly bypolls, trouncing its rivals by a record margin in politically significant Nandigram and scoring a surprise victory in Muslim-majority Rejinagar, consolidating its position barely five months after ending the TMC’s 15-year rule in the state. The results offered two contrasting but politically consequential readings of…
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Friday approved a proposal to rename the Noida International Airport at Jewar as ‘Narendra Modi International Airport, Noida-Jewar’, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said. Briefing reporters after a Cabinet meeting here, Adityanath said the state Cabinet was grateful to Prime Minister Modi for the airport, which he described as a…
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday hit back at the Congress following its attack on the Modi government over US actions affecting Indian IT professionals and accused Rahul Gandhi and his “foreign collaborators” of wanting to create anarchy in the country. In a series of posts on X, BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said Prime Minister…
Thiruvananthapuram: The Keralam government is preparing to introduce legislation in the upcoming Assembly session to provide a legal guarantee for the care and protection of senior citizens, Chief Minister V D Satheesan said on Friday, expressing hope that the bill would be passed this month. The proposed legislation aims to ensure that elderly people receive…
New Delhi: The government has advised large social media firms to prioritise action against unlawful content related to ongoing protests based on complaints received from authorised bodies, including law enforcement agencies, sources aware of the development said. The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) is learnt to have issued an advisory to social media platforms…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has stepped up security across the national capital ahead of the INDIA bloc’s Friday march to Rashtrapati Bhavan to seek President Droupadi Murmu’s intervention over its demand for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, sources said. More than 20,000 police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed across central Delhi, where the…
