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Kolkata, March 29 – The judicial process for adjudicating the claims of 40 lakh voters, which constitutes approximately 67 per cent of the total electorate of over 60 lakh, has been completed by Sunday evening, according to an insider from the office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer...

The Election Commission has released the third supplementary voter list under the SIR process in West Bengal. This announcement was made late last night. While the exact number of voters included or excluded has not been disclosed.This publication marks another step in the ongoing revision of...

Mumbai, March 27 A young girl died after being hit by a dump truck in the Chembur area of Mumbai on Friday evening, a police official said.The incident occurred within the jurisdiction of the RCF police station, he added."The driver has been apprehended. The process of registering a case is...

Lucknow, March 20 The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday held that ad hoc service cannot be ignored when considering employees for promotion, provided the initial appointment was made through a lawful process and the employee has served continuously.A division bench comprising...

Mumbai, March 17 – The Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill-2026 was passed after a heated debate late Monday night in the state Legislative Assembly. The ruling Mahayuti government strongly defended the necessity of the Bill to curb unlawful and forced conversion, while cracks appeared within...

Mumbai, March 16 – Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis clarified on Monday that the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026, is not directed against any specific religion. He emphasized that the Bill is being introduced solely to prevent religious conversions carried out through coercion, fraud...

Jabalpur, March 16 The Madhya Pradesh High Court has quashed an FIR accusing a married Army officer of raping a policewoman under the guise of marriage, observing that their relationship was consensual and the case appears to be a tactic used by the complainant to pressure the officer.A single...

New Delhi, March 13 Shiv Sena-UBT Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Friday demanded that all three branches of government – the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary – should be equal before the law, accountable, and open to scrutiny.During Zero Hour, Chaturvedi highlighted the...

Guwahati, March 11 – Assam Cabinet Minister Pijush Hazarika accused the Congress party on Wednesday of attempting to politicize the name of the iconic Assamese singer, Zubeen Garg, saying such actions reflect the party's "cheap mentality."In a post on social media, Hazarika stated that Zubeen...

The Supreme Court today directed the West Bengal government and the Election Commission to provide all logistical support to judicial officers involved in the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls in the state. A three-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices...

Jammu, March 10 Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia on Tuesday expressed full confidence in the judiciary and said that he and others who were recently discharged in the excise policy case but were later served notices by the Delhi High Court would follow all legal processes.Sisodia...

New Delhi, March 9 – Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva welcomed the Delhi High Court's decision to hear the petition filed against the discharge of former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and other accused by a lower CBI court in the excise...

New Delhi, March 2 The Supreme Court has warned that artificial judgments will have real consequences, coming down hard on a trial court that relied on fake, AI-generated verdicts in its decision-making process. Orders based on fictitious judgments will not just be seen as an error in...

New Delhi, March 2 Taking cognizance of a trial court relying on alleged non-existent verdicts that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), the Supreme Court has said that a decision based on such fake judgments would not be an error in decision-making, but would amount to...

New Delhi, February 27 – The Aam Aadmi Party welcomed the Delhi court's decision to acquit former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the alleged corruption case related to the scrapped excise policy. The party stated that the verdict exposes the...

Shimla, February 26 – Himachal Pradesh BJP President Rajeev Bindal criticised the Congress-led state government on Thursday, describing the developments related to the standoff between the Delhi and Himachal Pradesh police over the custody of three Youth Congress activists as "unprecedented and...

Dhaka, February 24 An investigation will be conducted into the alleged irregularities in the prosecution process of Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal, which last year sentenced deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death, its new chief prosecutor Amirul Islam said on Tuesday.Amirul...

Varanasi, February 21 – Swami Avimukteshwaranand stated on Saturday that the FIR filed against him in a case of child sexual abuse would ultimately expose what he described as "false allegations," expressing full faith in the judicial process and stating that the truth would emerge through...

Itanagar, February 18 The Arunachal Pradesh Police have recovered 15 vehicles that were fraudulently sold within the state after being stolen from neighboring Assam, the police said on Wednesday.The cars, recovered from Naharlagun in the Itanagar Capital Region, were among 40 vehicles hired...

New Delhi, February 17 – The Supreme Court has directed the National Judicial Academy to form a committee of experts to draft guidelines for judges dealing with cases of sexual offenses, emphasizing the need to instill sensitivity in the judicial approach.The top court, through its Director...