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The Delhi High Court directed a man to face trial under the POCSO Act for sexual relations with his minor wife. Justice Sanjeev Narula held that personal law cannot exempt liability under POCSO and the BNS. The woman was 16 and the man was 28 when they married. The court said mar
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The Tamil Nadu State Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes directed Collectors to remove caste names from streets, roads, waterbodies and other public places. Chairperson-in-charge Imayam asked for a report within a month after renaming those sites. He cited an Oct
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Lawyer Shailendra Mani Tripathi filed a Supreme Court petition seeking action against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. It cites reports that SIR electoral roll decisions were taken without the other two commissioners' concurrence. The plea seeks a probe into deletion of
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BJP candidates won mayor races on Friday in Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota municipal corporations in Rajasthan. Sunil Kothari took Jaipur with 89 votes to 60, aided by 11 independent councillors. Prasanna Chand Mehta beat Rajendra Solanki 53-47 in Jodhpur. Anusuiya Goswami won Kota 65-
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The Supreme Court eased bail terms for 2020 Delhi riots accused Meeran Haider on Friday, cutting police attendance from twice weekly to once. The court exempted his October 17 wedding and October 24. Justice Aravind Kumar's bench kept bans on public rallies until trial ends. Haid
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BJP allies on Friday said Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar should clarify differences inside the Election Commission over Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan said the CEC must dispel public misgivings. TDP and Rashtriya Lok
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday moved an Assembly resolution seeking immediate restoration of full statehood. BJP MLAs led by Leader of the Opposition Sunil Sharma entered the well in protest. The text cites earlier House resolutions of June 26, 2000, and
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The Delhi High Court on Friday directed Meta Platforms to remove a woman's morphed social media images with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Justice Girish Kathpalia issued notice to Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das, Abhijit Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Ratna Singh. The court l
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BJP MLA Chotelal Verma from Agra's Fatehabad constituency died Thursday at a Noida hospital. He was 73. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath paid tribute on X, calling the death extremely sad. Verma first won Fatehabad in 1993 and won again in 2002, 2012 and 2022. In 2022 he secured mo
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to urgently list a 2016 PIL seeking speedy disposal of criminal cases involving lawmakers. Amicus Vijay Hansaria told the Surya Kant-led bench that almost 40 percent of legislators face such cases. His report said 251 of 543 Lok Sabha members an
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CJP said it will launch a nationwide protest from Mumbai on October 2 if Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar does not resign. Convener Abhijeet Dipke said the protest would then move across India. On Thursday, CJP gave Kumar 48 hours to step down. The demand follows reports
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Four Maharashtra residents petitioned the Bombay High Court Kolhapur bench to quash 14 Election Commission orders and stop the SIR process. They seek restoration of deleted voter names and postponed assembly elections. The petition cites an Indian Express report of objections on
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The Enforcement Directorate continued searches at Greater Mohali Area Development Authority offices in Mohali. The agency searched premises linked to housing officials and a minister's nephew in Ludhiana on Wednesday. Aam Aadmi Party workers protested outside GMADA, accusing the
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Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday asked the Maharashtra government to call a special Assembly session next week on the drought. He sought a two-to-three-day sitting and farm loan guarantees matching those for sugar mills. Thackeray also asked for tehsil-wise drou
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on September 23 sought more time from the Supreme Court. The Union government is deciding whether to spare current Class 6 students from the three-language policy. Justice Joymalya Bagchi asked the government to give Class 6 students some relief. Ch
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of a Patna High Court judgment. That court held removing a woman's salwar and pressing her chest did not amount to attempt to rape. A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant said the judgment has offending portions. It issued
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The Tripura High Court waived remaining jail terms for four Bangladeshi nationals convicted of illegal entry and ordered the state to repatriate them. Justice T Amarnath Goud delivered the Monday order in two cases. Ratilal Das and Binita Rani Das had received two years' rigorous
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Jammu and Kashmir observed a September 23 holiday for Dogra Maharaja Hari Singh's birth anniversary, added in 2022 by the Lieutenant Governor's administration. BJP events in Srinagar and Jammu praised his 1947 accession. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah highlighted Sheikh Abdullah an
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Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on September 23 demanded the arrest of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. She also sought fresh Assembly polls using the pre-SIR voter list. She alleged the BJP and the Election Commission had looted the year's Assembly el
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The BJP on Wednesday rejigged 36 prabharis and co-in-charges, with a focus on poll-bound states ahead of coming elections. National vice president Ram Madhav was named Uttarakhand in-charge, with Arvind Menon and New Delhi Lok Sabha MP Bansuri Swaraj as co-in-charges. Smriti Iran
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BSP president Mayawati named her nephew Ishan Anand, 25, as the party's national convener at a Lucknow meeting of national office-bearers on Wednesday. The appointment comes days after she announced her final decision that neither of her two nephews would hold any party posts. El
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Kerala's Congress-led government ordered a police probe against former chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan after the Enforcement Directorate recommended action in an alleged payment case. CPI(M) leaders rallied at the state secretariat. Secretary M V Govindan called the government a
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Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said the state will set up a special committee for industry-based curricula. At KEONICS' 50th anniversary in Bengaluru on September 22, he cited 30,000 vacant engineering seats and pay near Rs 20,000 a month. KEONICS chair Sharath Kumar Bach
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Opposition parties on September 23 called for impeachment proceedings against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. An Indian Express report said Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi recorded objections at least 14 times over ten months. They said major decisio
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The Trinamool Congress accused BJP workers of attacking its leaders in Kolkata's Mukundapur on September 22 night. The party said former MLA Humayun Kabir was injured and IT cell head Upasana Chowdhury was assaulted, with her car vandalised. Abhishek Banerjee condemned political
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will begin his PDA Rath Yatra from Rae Bareli on September 24, visiting MLA Rahul Lodhi after student clashes on September 17. The yatra targets backwards, Dalit and minority voters before Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls slated for February 2027.
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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta congratulated ABVP after it won three of four central panel posts in the latest Delhi University Students' Union election. She recalled serving as DUSU president in 1996-97 after a year as general secretary. Independent Deepanshu Shokeen won vice-
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Uttar Pradesh minister O P Rajbhar said the state would soon be divided into four parts, with Purvanchal getting a chief minister from his community. The remarks renewed talk of carving Western UP, Awadh, Bundelkhand and Purvanchal. The firmest Assembly step came in November 2011
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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday questioned the delay in filing a chargesheet in the Ram temple donation theft probe. He cited a report quoting Tushar Mehta that forensic CCTV review found 105 theft incidents, up from 70 earlier. Ramesh said no chargesheet has been filed
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The BJP won mayoral posts in six of seven major Rajasthan Municipal Corporations on Monday, including Ajmer and Pali where Congress held more councillor seats. Congress kept Bikaner with Anil Kalla while BJP candidates were unopposed in Bharatpur and Bhilwara. Top posts were fill
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A Delhi court on Monday set aside a September 11, 2025 Magistrate order refusing a probe into claims Sonia Gandhi's name entered the electoral roll three years before Indian citizenship in 1983. Special Judge Vishal Gogne called the order non-speaking and sent it back for a reaso
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JD(U) has launched Nitish Samvad, sending party leaders across 12 Bihar districts along the Ganga to oppose renewal of the Farakka water-sharing treaty with Bangladesh, due to expire in December. Four districts are already covered, with more stops planned in October and November.
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Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Monday attacked the Modi government over rising food prices. He questioned the Prime Minister's silence on inflation. He said onion's all-India average retail price rose from Rs 29.50 per kg in June to Rs 53.78 per kg in September, an 8
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Former BJP MP Pratap Simha was booked over remarks he allegedly made during a Ganesh immersion procession in T Narasipura, police said on Sunday. Mysuru SP Mallikarjuna Baladandi said the Saturday case covers assault on a public servant, rioting and promoting enmity. Several otheThe Hindu BusinessLineArchived
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to form a special bench on an NHAI plea against orders to build stray cattle shelters nationwide. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said the direction would cost about Rs 7,000 crore. He said the work belongs to local district administrations. Chie
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MLC Ivan D'Souza said on September 20, 2026, that the Centre cannot force Karnataka to sing all six stanzas of Vande Mataram in State programmes. He defended keeping only two stanzas, as done for years. He cited Section 3 of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment
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Former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi said the Centre and Punjab keep blaming each other while drugs reach villages. He told The Indian Express higher seizures do not prove success if supply continues. He backed listing Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, Fa
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INLD patron Sampat Singh condemned the BJP's month-long Seva Sankalp Abhiyaan on Sunday as self-glorification paid from public funds, The Hindu reported. He said schools were ordered to hold deepotsav programmes burning hundreds of lamps. He contrasted Narendra Modi's call to cut
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RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Saturday met a 12-year-old boy in Patna. The boy alleged assault after filming mustard-oil lamps at a Prime Minister Narendra Modi birthday event on September 17. Yadav said police pressured the boy to change his statement. BJP state spokespers
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said a six-state pact on the 422-MW Kishau dam means Himachal will not bear the Rs 15,624-crore project cost. Himachal, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi signed on September 15. The Centre is to fund 90
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Congress criticised IIM Jammu for notifying a Rs 500 fine on students absent from a September 17, 2026 lamp-lighting ceremony marking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday. Congress MP Syed Naseer Hussain questioned making attendance at the event mandatory. The institute notice
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Mamata Banerjee has moved the Supreme Court against the Election Commission freeze on the All India Trinamool Congress name and symbol. On Friday the panel allotted her faction Mamata All India Trinamool Congress and a football player symbol. The Arup Roy faction received Democra
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A special NIA court in Jagdalpur said the May 25, 2013 Jhiram Valley attack that killed 27 people was planned nearly three months ahead. The detailed order followed death sentences for all 10 convicts on September 16. Investigators traced planning to a February 16-25, 2013 Maoist
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After the Election Commission gave rival TMC factions interim names and symbols, Mamata Banerjee said she would back Congress candidate Milan Pradhan in Nandigram. Her nominee Sanchita Pradhan Dey withdrew on Friday. Police later arrested Pradhan in a 2007 murder case. The bypoll
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Counting is underway for Delhi University Students' Union polls for president, vice-president, secretary and joint secretary. The presidency race features ABVP's Yash Dabas, NSUI's Vijay Shankar Meena and AISA-SFI's Ananya Raturi as leading contenders. ABVP has projected a 4-0 sw
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Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool faction moved the Supreme Court on September 18, 2026, challenging the Election Commission's freeze on the party name and symbol. The ECI allotted interim names and symbols to both factions hours earlier. The petition said the ECI relied on rebel legis
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Congress Nandigram bypoll candidate Milan Pradhan was arrested on September 18, 2026, in a 2007 case, about an hour after Mamata Banerjee pledged support when her faction's nominee withdrew. State president Subhankar Sarkar said Pradhan faced threat calls. Mallikarjun Kharge call
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Senior Congress leader and former Union minister E.M. Sudarsana Nachiappan died in Sivaganga on September 17, 2026 after a brief illness. He was 79. He represented Sivaganga in the Lok Sabha from 1999 to 2004 and served in the Rajya Sabha from 2004 to 2016. He was minister of sta
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The Delhi High Court reprimanded authorities and student unions over alleged violence and vandalism during Delhi University Student Union election campaigns. It called the conduct unacceptable at any cost. The court directed the University of Delhi and the Delhi Police to file ac
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Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress emailed new name and symbol choices to the Election Commission at 11:36 pm on Thursday under protest. The interim order bars both factions from the All India Trinamool Congress name and flowers and grass symbol for October 6 bypolls. Polls cov