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SC dismisses plea challenging 1989 SC/ST Act

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to the constitutional validity of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, observin... Read More


SC directs Yogi govt to replace public prosecutor

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to replace the public prosecutor conducting the Lakhimpur violence trial against Ashish Mishra, son of former ... Read More


BJP seeks to shore up Dalit support ahead of UP polls

NEW DELHI, Sept. 23 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants its cadre in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh to ensure that the party's hold over the substantial Dalit vote-bank- estimated to be about 21% of t... Read More


Allow Pradhan to fight bypoll if granted bail: HC

Kolkata, Sept. 23 -- The Calcutta high court on Tuesday told the West Bengal government to allow Milan Pradhan, the Congress candidate in the Nandigram assembly, to contest the upcoming bypolls on con... Read More


SC bins challenge to SC/ST Act provisions

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to the constitutional validity of some key provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrociti... Read More


Ram temple donation'theft': SIT charge sheetlikely to be filed today

LUCKNOW, Sept. 23 -- The Supreme Court-mandated Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya is likely to file its charge sheet before th... Read More


BJP will return to power in UP with 'massive majority': Nitin Nabin

MEERUT, Sept. 23 -- BJP national president Nitin Nabin on Tuesday said the party would return to power in Uttar Pradesh with a "massive majority" in the 2027 assembly elections, asserting that the ent... Read More


BJP MLA seeks pension scheme for journalists

LUCKNOW, Sept. 23 -- Sarojininagar MLA Rajeshwar Singh has urged chief minister Yogi Adityanath to introduce a pension scheme for senior journalists and the families of journalists who die during serv... Read More


Mahana meets Iceland parliamentary leaders

LUCKNOW, Sept. 23 -- Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly speaker Satish Mahana met the speaker of the Parliament of Iceland and the chairman of its Foreign Affairs Committee in Reykjavik, the capital o... Read More


SP alleges mass BLO transfers and bogus voters, seeks probe

LUCKNOW, Sept. 23 -- Samajwadi Party state president Shyam Lal Pal on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer, seeking urgent action against alleged large-scale tra... Read More