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Rijiju: No new deadline for Waqf registration, no penalties for 3 months

India, Dec. 6 -- Union minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday ruled out extending the deadline for registering Waqf properties on the UMEED portal but said his ministry, recognising the conc... Read More


Israeli LMGs head to India next year

JERUSALEM, Dec. 6 -- A leading Israeli defence firm has said it intends to supply the first batch of 40,000 light machine guns (LMGs) to India starting early next year, while it is in the final stages... Read More


Sharad Pawar rules out alliance with Ajit Pawar faction for upcoming local body elections.

Pune, Dec. 6 -- Sharadchandra Pawar, chief of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction), has clearly stated that his party will not contest the upcoming local self-government elections in ... Read More


Supreme Court Judges calls for 'Cooperative Ecological Federalism', traditional wisdom at NGT meet

Chennai, Dec. 6 -- Supreme Court Judges today called for 'Cooperative Ecological Federalism' and traditional wisdom at the The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Zone Bench (SZB), and the Souther... Read More


Kerala High Court stays arrest of Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil in rape case

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 6 -- The Kerala High Court has stayed the arrest of Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil, who has been absconding in the rape case registered against him. The bench of Justice K B... Read More


Law to declare social boycott crime on anvil

Bengaluru, Dec. 6 -- Karnataka is preparing to introduce a law that would make social boycott a criminal offence, a move officials said is designed to counter deeply rooted forms of exclusion that con... Read More


What is Right to Disconnect Bill introduced in Lok Sabha and can it clear Parliament?

India, Dec. 6 -- Supriya Sule, Lok Sabha MP from the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), introduced a private member's bill in the lower house on Friday seeking legal right for employees... Read More


Upalokayukta's remarks trigger political slugfest

Bengaluru, Dec. 6 -- Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday took to social media to rebut an appeal by the BJP for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into comments made by the state's Upal... Read More


Jefferey Epstein files likely to be released this month - What's in the documents? Will new names surface? Explained

New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- The Donald Trump administration is soon going to release the Jefferey Epstein files as a federal judge on Friday cleared the path towards making it happen. This comes after the C... Read More


Ratan Khatri: The Matka King who architected a million-dollar betting syndicate

New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- Through the 1960s, every evening at 9pm, in one of the seamier pockets of Mumbai, a man in a crisp white kurta would shuffle a fresh deck of cards. With theatrical precision, he w... Read More