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NEW DELHI: Over three-and-a-half years since nine parties — three national parties NCP, Trinamool Congress and CPI and six state parties — were issued notices by the Election Commission on why their ‘status’ should not be downgraded based…

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress along with other opposition parties have planned to approach the Delhi high court to register respective cases against central probe agencies to “prevent their misuse” against political opponents, according to…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will consider whether the pleas challenging the validity of the electoral bond scheme for political fundingof parties can be referred to a constitutional bench for an "authoritative…

NEW DELHI: The BJP is the world's most important foreign political party and it may also be the least understood according to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal authored by Walter Russell Mead."India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party…

NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arivind Kejriwalwrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday requesting him not to stop the national capital's budget."It is the first time in the country's 75-year history that a state budget has been…

Shashi Deshpande Won The Lifetime Achievement Award At The Fourth Round Of AutHer Awards. ‘Women Writers Were Earlier Ignored, Dismissed, Stereotyped, But That Has Changed Now,’ She SaidWhy do you write about women? Shashi Deshpande,…

WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday strongly condemned the attack on the Indian consulate in San Francisco by a group of separatist Sikhs, terming it absolutely unacceptable.Raising pro-Khalistan slogans, the protesters on Sunday broke…

NEW DELHI: India on Monday lodged a strong protest with the US Charge d'Affaires in Delhi over the incident of vandalism at the Indian consulate general in San Francisco by some pro-Khalistan elements during a protest.The ministry of…

WASHINGTON/CANBERRA: A group of pro-Khalistan protesters on Sunday attacked and damaged the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, prompting sharp condemnation from Indian-Americans who demanded immediate action against those responsible for…

NEW DELHI: A 72-year-old woman, at the centre of headlines after a co-passenger allegedly urinated on her on board a New York-Delhi Air India flight last November, has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the DGCAand airlines to…