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Top lawyers, tall claims: Battle over India's data privacy law to start in SC next week

NEW DELHI, May 8 -- Next week, the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant will start hearing arguments for and against India's first-ever data privacy law. After five separate publi... Read More


Punjab: ASI convicted in rRs.r25K bribery case, sentenced to 3-year jail

India, May 8 -- A special court in Mohali has convicted Punjab Police assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Jagdish Lal, who was posted at Jaijon in Hoshiarpur district, in a 2019 corruption case and sentence... Read More


Cong leaves it to high command to pick Kerala CM

Thiruvananthapuram, May 8 -- Two observers sent by the AICC leadership held consultations with the party's MLA-elects and passed a resolution on Thursday authorising the high command to decide on the ... Read More


Siddaramaiah approved revocation of IPS K Ramachandra Rao's suspension: Parameshwara

BENGALURU, May 8 -- Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara on Thursday said the decision to revoke the suspension of senior IPS officer K Ramachandra Rao had been taken by chief minister Siddaramaiah,... Read More


MLA urges Cong to take call on K'taka leadership change

BENGALURU, May 8 -- Even as Siddaramaiah emerged as the country's oldest serving chief minister following the exit of Pinarayi Vijayan in Kerala, pressure mounted within the Congress on Thursday to qu... Read More


Niti Aayog VC Ashok Kumar Lahiri's phone number hacked

New Delhi, May 8 -- A phone number belonging to Niti Aayog vice chairman Ashok Kumar Lahiri was allegedly hacked on Thursday evening, he claimed in a Facebook post the same day. He claimed the hacker ... Read More


Ganga Expressway extension to Haridwar: New corridor to be a bridge of faith between two Mahakumbh hubs

LUCKNOW, May 8 -- Pilgrims travelling between Haridwar and Prayagraj may soon experience a much faster journey, with plans underway to extend the 594-km-long Ganga Expressway from Meerut to Haridwar. ... Read More


Plans in works to revive central rural job scheme, PMAY in West Bengal

New Delhi, May 8 -- The new government in West Bengal is yet to be sworn in, but the Union rural development ministry is already discussing ways in which two flagship rural welfare schemes, the Mahatm... Read More


U.P. has moved away from politics of fatwas to dev: CM

Meerut, May 8 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said the state had moved away from the politics of "appeasement" and "fatwas" to a model focused on development and public welfare. He also ... Read More


Ex-cji appointed to mediate in dispute over kapur estate

New Delhi, May 8 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday appointed former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud as mediator to facilitate a settlement in the high-stakes inheritance dispute w... Read More