The Hindu (Hyderabad)
Cabinet gives nod to take over metro rail by March 31
The State government has decided to completely take over the operation and maintenance of the Hyderabad Metro Rail first phase presently spanning 69 km. The government has set March 31 as the deadline for completing the process in this direction. The...
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Time for nations facing tariffs to unionise: Lula
Instead of negotiating with the U.S. on tariffs separately, countries should form “negotiating blocs”, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said here on Sunday, advocating for “unionisation” of those suffering from the tariffs. Mr. Lula,...
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India ‘studying’ U.S. tariff moves: Commerce Ministry
While the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on various countries, including India, several other tariffs remain that continue to hurt various sectors, trade analysts and export data show. In a...
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U.S. Supreme Court halts Trump’s sweeping tariffs
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s farreaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. The 63 decision centres on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law,...
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AICC reviews urban local body polls success in Telangana, flags caution on MIM factor
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) leadership’s comprehensive review on Telangana saw an interesting discussion on the role of the All India MajliseIttehadul Muslimeen (MIM), with senior leaders cautioning the Telangana unit against overtly...
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DGCA proposes swift ban on disruptive passengers
Airline operators may soon be empowered to directly impose a flying ban of up to 30 days on unruly or disruptive passengers without referring the matter to the competent authority. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has proposed...
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Political leaders, officials must foster fraternity: SC
Political leaders must foster fraternity and high public officeholders should live up to the ideals of the Constitution, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday. The court was hearing a petition highlighting instances of Chief Ministers, senior bureaucrats,...
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High drama marks municipal chairperson elections
Elections for municipal chairperson and vicechairperson posts turned chaotic, triggering clashes among supporters of the ruling Congress and Opposition BRS, BJP, and others in many places in the State on Monday. Ironically, the ruling Congress and its...
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Trade deals made from a ‘position of strength’, says Modi
ndia recently entered into a slew of trade agreements, including with the European Union and the United States, “from a position of strength”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday, adding that these deals were designed to expand global market...
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New Urban Challenge Fund to tap market for infra push
The Union Cabinet has approved the launch of the Urban Challenge Fund (UCF), a new Centrally sponsored scheme of the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry with ₹1 lakh crore Central assistance. In a statement on Saturday, the government said the...
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Cong. dominant, BRS puts up decent fight while BJP falters
Congress party registered a commanding performance in the Telangana municipal elections, winning 1,347 wards in the 116 municipalities, translating its victory to capture 66 municipalities so far apart from winning four municipal corporations. The...
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Zero tariff textiles exports to U.S. possible for India: Goyal
India will receive the same benefits on textiles exports under its interim trade agreement with the U.S. as Bangladesh gained through its own deal, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday. “Just as Bangladesh has a facility that if raw...
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Centre plans guidelines for books by defence personnel
mid the controversy surrounding the unpublished memoir Four Stars of Destiny, of former Army chief General M.M. Naravane ((retd), the Defence Ministry is working on detailed guidelines for serving and retired armed forces personnel who wish to publish...
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Tiger kills 6 calves around Siddipet village over two days, eats only one
The tiger on the long meandering journey in Telangana’s nonforest areas has killed three calves in one day, near Arepally village in Koheda mandal of Siddipet district, sending shivers down the spines of local residents. However, it has eaten only one...
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BJP leaders quiet on Centre’s bias, says Revanth
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy charged BJP with insulting Telangana’s self-respect, keeping quiet on Centre’s financial discrimination.
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India, Malaysia ink pacts to expand strategic ties
India and Malaysia on Sunday vowed to expand their ties in the highpriority sectors of trade and investment, defence, energy, advanced manufacturing and semiconductors with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserting that both sides are committed to peace...
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India, U.S. unveil framework for deal
Both countries commit to provide each other preferential market access India intends to buy U.S. products worth $500 billion over the next five years Framework reflects trust and dynamism of partnership; will generate jobs: Modi India will remove or...
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Suicide attack at Shia mosque kills 31 in Pakistan
A suicide blast at a Shia mosque in Islamabad killed at least 31 people on Friday, with a police source saying more than 169 are wounded in the deadliest attack in Pakistan’s capital since the 2008 Marriott bombing. City officials said 31 people died...
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18 killed in blast at illegal coal mine in Meghalaya
An explosion in an illegally operated rathole coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district killed 18 miners on Thursday, officials said. This is one of the biggest miningrelated tragedies since July 2012, when 15 miners died in a flooded...
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TGPSC aspirants protest over job calendar
Hundreds of youths gathered under makeshift tents to protest at Dharna Chowk on Lower Tank Bund Road on Wednesday, demanding that the State government issue recruitment notifications and announce a job calendar.
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No motive found in Charlapalli suicide, say police
Three days after a woman and her two children died near Charlapalli railway station, railway police said they have found no clear motive behind the extreme step. The trade deal with the United States, announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime...
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Bulk applications for deleting voter names in Rajasthan’s Barmer
Subhan Khan, a BJP worker at Janpaliya village in Barmer district of Rajasthan, was stunned when his boothlevel officer informed him that an application had been filed seeking the deletion of his name from the State’s electoral rolls through Form...
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WINCREASE IN DEFENCE SPENDING IN FY27(BE) COMPARED WITH FY26(BE) hile acknowledging the strains created by the external global environment, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday presented the Union Budget 2026 in Parliament, with the aim...
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Shots fired, armed men rob trader outside SBI Koti branch
Panic prevailed in Koti on Saturday morning after unidentified assailants opened fire on a 26yearold cloth merchant and fled with ₹6 lakh in cash near the State Bank of India’s main branch. The Sultan Bazar police have booked a case. According to...
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Menstrual health in schools is integral to right to life: SC
he Supreme Court on Friday declared that the right to menstrual health and access to menstrual hygiene management (MHM) measures in educational institutions is part of the fundamental right to life and dignity under Article 21 of the...
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3.5 lakh Bengal voters yet to appear for SIR hearing
About 3.5 lakh voters marked as “unmapped” under the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in West Bengal have not turned up for hearings, raising concern among election officials. During the first phase of the SIR in the State, about...
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4,000 buses for Medaram Jatara
The TGSRTC will operate over 4,000 special buses for Medaram Jatara from Saturday till February 1. City and inter-district bus services, including those plying within the Greater Hyderabad Zone, will be affected on account of this. In his first major...
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Tension rises in Manipur after Meitei man’s killing
29yearold man was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Churachandpur district of Manipur on Wednesday night, security officials said. The killing was recorded on camera. Mayanglambam Rishikant Singh, a resident of Kakching, belonged to the Meitei...
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Saved banyans of Chevella set on fire again
A broad strip of sunlit ochre along the narrow BT road appears distinctly at variance from the naturally occurring soil at Chevella between Aloor and Damaragidda villages. The lateriterich soil makes a solid bed for the widened portion of National...
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Governor altered policy address, says Kerala CM
he Kerala Legislative Assembly saw extraordinary scenes on Tuesday after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar had made changes to the policy speech prepared by the State government while delivering the customary...
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Revanth Reddy leads team to Davos, to promote Telangana as global investment hub
With an aim to promote Telangana as a preferred global destination for investments, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy embarked on a fourday visit to Davos in Switzerland to participate in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting. Mr. Reddy left...
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PM launches ₹6,957crore Kaziranga corridor work
rime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday cited the outcome of the Bihar Assembly election and the Mumbai civic polls to claim that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has become the first choice of the people in the country. After laying the foundation...
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Will develop erstwhile Adilabad district: CM
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy reaffirmed his government’s resolve to develop the erstwhile Adilabad district in all spheres saying a university will be set up at IIITBasar in Nirmal district and an industrial corridor will be developed in Adilabad...
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Iran signals at executions, trials amid Trump’s threat
The head of Iran’s judiciary defied a warning from U.S. President Donald Trump and signalled on Wednesday that there would be swift trials and executions ahead for those detained in nationwide protests. The comments from Iran’s judiciary chief...
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Retail inflation at 3month high of 1.33% in December
India’s retail inflation quickened to a threemonth high of 1.33% in December 2025, which is still significantly below the lower comfort level of 2% set by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), official data released on Monday showed. Data on the Consumer...
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Defying U.S. warning, Iran clamps down on protests
Protests sweeping across Iran neared the two-week mark on Saturday, with the country’s government acknowledging the ongoing demonstrations despite an intensifying crackdown and as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world. With...
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Mamata, ED lock horns over search at consultancy firm
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Thursday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of removing evidence from two locations during a raid against the political consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) in Kolkata. The...
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EC says it has constitutional duty to bar foreigners from voter rolls
The Election Commission of India (EC) began its defence of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls before the Supreme Court on Tuesday by dismissing claims that it is conducting a “parallel” National Register of Citizens (NRC)...
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Maduro pleads not guilty, says he is still President
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro pleaded not guilty to charges of narcoterrorism in a New York court on Monday, two days after being snatched along with his wife, Cilia Flores, by U.S. forces from Caracas. “I'm the President of the Republic of...
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Venezuela V-P to take over as Maduro held in U.S. jail
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was held in a New York prison on Sunday to face criminal charges after being captured in a nighttime military operation done without approval from the U.S. Congress, even as the South American country’s top court...
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CM sees Kaleshwaram-type exploitation by KCR in PRLIS too
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy told the Telangana Legislative Assembly on Saturday that neither former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao nor then Irrigation minister T. Harish Rao had any intention to give water to Palamuru (combined Mahabubnagar)...
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Centre’s tobacco tax rejig to take effect from Feb. 1
The Union Finance Ministry on Thursday issued a series of notifications that will give effect to the new taxation regime for tobacco products from February 1. The Central Excise (Amendment) Act, 2025, passed in the recently concluded Winter Session of...
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GHMC likely to be split into three corporations after February 2026
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, purview of which has been expanded from 650 sqkm to 2,053 sqkm recently, may not remain so for very long. A media conference by the GHMC Commissioner R.V. Karnan on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, left enough...
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Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first woman PM and key political rival to Hasina, dies
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, whose rivalry with the deposed Premier Sheikh Hasina defined the country’s politics for a generation, died on Tuesday, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said in a statement. She was 80. Ms. Zia was...
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SC pauses its judgment on Aravalli, moots new panel
The Supreme Court on Monday kept in abeyance its November 20 judgment upholding a government expert panel definition restricting the world’s oldest surviving mountain system, the Aravalli Range, to hills sporting an elevation of 100 metres or above,...
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EC conditionally halts voter hearing under SIR in Bengal
The Election Commission of India (EC), in a fresh set of instructions, has asked district election officials (DEOs) in West Bengal not to summon for hearings those voters identified as “unmapped”, but whose names or ancestral connections were present...
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10.56 lakh names cut on draft rolls in Assam
The names of 10.56 lakh voters have been deleted on the draft electoral rolls of Assam which were published on Saturday after a housetohouse verification of the voter lists during the special revision exercise conducted by the Election Commission in...
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BNP leader calls for ‘secure’ Bangladesh at homecoming
Bangladesh should be a “secure” home for all communities cutting across religious and regional differences, said the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Tarique Rahman, on Thursday following his return home after nearly 18 years...
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Dhaka braces for return of BNP leader ahead of polls
After nearly 18 years in exile in the United Kingdom, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman will return to Dhaka on Thursday, formally marking the official launch of the party’s campaign for the February 12 general...
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CM seeks information on contract and outsourcing staff appointed by BRS
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy directed senior officials to furnish information pertaining to the regular, contract and outsourcing employees working in their respective departments. The Chief Minister set January 26 deadline for the departments to...
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India, New Zealand wind up FTA talks, set to boost trade
India and New Zealand on Monday concluded discussions on a free trade agreement (FTA) that will give India tarifffree access to the island nation’s markets, bring in $20 billion in investments over 15 years, and help double bilateral trade to $5...
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Keeping a close watch on Bangladesh events: India
India on Sunday described the killing of a Hindu youth in Bangladesh as a “horrendous act”, and expressed “strong concern” about the safety of minority communities in the neighbouring country. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal...
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U.S. wants India’s nuclear norms globally aligned
Two days after Parliament cleared the SHANTI Bill, which allows private participation in India’s nuclear sector and eases liability norms by capping operator liability for a nuclear incident to ₹3,000 crore, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed...
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Consider ‘ground realities’ in various States, SC tells EC
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Election Commission of India (EC) to take a “sympathetic view” of representations to extend the enumeration phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, taking into consideration the “ground realities”...
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LS passes nuclear energy Bill allowing privatisation
he Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025, despite demands by several Opposition parliamentarians for referring the legislation to a parliamentary...
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Sydney beach shooter was Indian citizen, say officials
Sajid Akram, one of the two Bondi Beach attackers who killed at least 16 people at a Jewish event in Australia on Sunday, was an Indian citizen from Hyderabad, government officials who ran a background check on the deceased told The Hindu. He last came...
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With new Bill, demand-led job scheme set to turn supply-driven
The Union government is set to introduce the Viksit Bharat — Guarantee For Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 in the Lok Sabha. The move will mark a shift from...
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11 dead as gunmen fire on Jewish event in Sydney
At least 11 people were killed and 29 wounded when gunmen fired on a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday in what Australian police and officials described as a terrorist attack. One suspected gunman was killed and another was in a...
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Retail inflation moves up marginally to 0.7% in Nov.
Retail inflation in India quickened marginally to 0.7% in November 2025, up from the historic low of 0.25% in October 2025, with a continued contraction in food prices offsetting a marginal acceleration in fuel inflation. November’s inflation rate is...
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EC extends deadline for SIR in five States, one U.T.
he Election Commission has extended the schedule of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in five States and one Union Territory: Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and the Andaman and Nicobar...
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Illegal immigrants will be detected, deported: Shah
he National Democratic Alliance government will “detect, delete and deport” illegal immigrants from the country, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday, as the Lok Sabha witnessed a faceoff during a discussion on electoral reforms, leading to...
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Citizenship under CAA only if claims verified: SC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said conferment of rights associated with Indian citizenship to people claiming to be religious minorities who fled persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh and protected under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act,...
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Govt., Opposition spar in LS over Vande Mataram
The Centre and the Opposition on Monday sparred in the Lok Sabha over Vande Mataram, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi terming it the voice of the freedom movement that had been “fragmented” by the Congress in its “surrender before the Muslim...
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25 dead in Goa nightclub fire; probe finds use of fireworks
Amassive fire erupted at a nightclub in north Goa just before midnight on Saturday, leaving 25 people dead and six injured. The initial police investigation found that the blaze was caused by a fire show with “electric firecrackers”, organised without...
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As crisis continues, govt. imposes cap on airfares
The Union government imposed caps on airfares, set a timeline for refunds, and announced special trains to help stranded passengers on Saturday, as IndiGo, the country’s largest domestic airline, began a slow return to normalcy. The airline has...
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India-Russia friendship remains steady like the pole star, says PM
Appreciating Russian President Vladimir Putin for taking the IndiaRussia relationship to “new heights” over the past quarter of a century, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid out an expansive canvas of energy and trade collaborations between the two...
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SC tells States to replace distressed BLOs for SIR
The Supreme Court on Thursday put the onus entirely on State governments to substitute employees unable to bear the work pressure of a boothlevel officer (BLO), while refusing to let the reported distress of the workforce “hamper” a tightly wound...
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Govt. withdraws order to install Sanchar Saathi app
The Department of Telecommunications on Wednesday walked back its directions to phone manufacturers ordering them to install a government app starting next year. The reversal caps a turbulent episode, in which the government first downplayed the nature...
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DoT order to ‘pre-install’ govt. app triggers storm
The Union government’s mandate on Monday for smartphone makers to preinstall the Sanchar Saathi app sparked backlash from the Opposition and from digital rights activists. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wrote on ◣ that...
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SC gives CBI free hand to stop ‘digital arrest’ scams
he Supreme Court on Monday tasked the Central Bureau of Investigation with cracking down on ‘digital arrest’ scammers and their associates, giving the agency a “free hand” to launch an anticorruption probe into bankers involved in the opening of mule...
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SIR form deadline extended to Dec. 11 amid BLO distress
Amid widespread reports of boothlevel officers (BLO) facing severe stress, the Election Commission on Sunday extended the schedule of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in nine States and three Union Territories by a...
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