Article 35A of the Indian Constitution empowers the J&K legislature to define the state’s “permanent residents” and their special rights and privileges
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2nd Apr 2026 | Updated at 06:53am 2nd Apr 2026
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Punjab govt to move SC against governor
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Gaganyaan test flight's crew module successfully recovered by Navy
Hours after the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) scientists successfully conducted the Gaganyaan failure test, the Navy’s Eastern Naval Command recovered the Crew Module (CM) from the Bay of Bengal. Isro chief S Somanath said the crew...
KCR unveils poll promises to counter Congress' guarantees
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TMC stands for 'terror, mafia, corruption': Nadda
Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.
Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...
West Midlands delegation visits Ahmedabad to boost ties
A 37-member West Midlands delegation, led by Mayor Richard Parker and officials including Manoj Ladwa and Neil Rami, visited Ahmedabad to strengthen economic, cultural, and educational ties, coinciding with the inaugural Commonwealth Connect...
Somnath Swabhiman Parv honours India’s spiritual resilience
The Somnath Swabhiman Parv, held at the first Jyotirlinga in Gujarat, marks one thousand years since the first attack on the Somnath Temple in 1026. This national event, instead of focusing on destruction, celebrates India’s resilience, faith,...
With mobile communication and Internet services suspended and public movement restricted, all of the Kashmir Valley was in a state of lockdown from midnight...
Nearly two years after the Supreme Court set aside the centuries-old practice of instant triple talaq or talaq-e-biddat calling it un-Islamic, arbitrary...
India has slammed Pakistan with yet another note verbale earlier this month, an action taken against five cases of harassment of Indian diplomats in Islamabad.
VG Siddhartha, the founder of the popular chain Cafe Coffee Day and son-in-law of former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna, has gone missing from a bridge...
Iran has freed nine Indian crew members of a Panama-flagged tanker, MT Riah which was detained by the Iranian coastguard on July 13, with 12 Indian crew...
The death toll in Assam and Bihar floods surged to 209, with over 10.6 million people affected by the deluge in the two states, officials said
Over 1,000 passengers, including nine pregnant women, were ferried to a safer location from the Mumbai-Kolhapur Mahalaxmi Express that was stranded for...
Over 1.5 kg jewellery and coins were recovered from the stomach of a mentally unstable woman at a government hospital in West Bengal's Birbhum district
Subrata Chattopadhyay, a professor at Nabagram Hiralal Pal College in West Bengal’s Hooghly district was 'assaulted' at the campus gate by members of the...
