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Deploy more staff for SIR: SC to states

India, Dec. 5 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday underscored that states governments cannot distance themselves from their statutory obligation to provide adequate manpower for electoral work, making it... Read More


States will get pan masala cess share for health push: Nirmala

India, Dec. 5 -- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday told the Lok Sabha that the revenue from the proposed capacity-based cess on pan masala will be shared with states to be used in ... Read More


US snubs S Africa to unveil 'new G20'

India, Dec. 5 -- South Africa's presidency joked on Thursday that the country would "take a commercial break" from the G20 while US President Donald Trump leads the forum, after Trump's administration... Read More


Root slams 1st Ashes ton, but Starc takes 6

India, Dec. 5 -- Joe Root posted a long-awaited first Ashes century in Australia to give England the honours on Day 1 of the second cricket test despite Mitchell Starc's six wickets. Starc removed Ben... Read More


Reward for information in country's biggest digital arrest case

MUMBAI, Dec. 5 -- The Maharashtra cyber police have announced a reward for information on an accused, Devendra Saini, wanted in the Rs.58-crore digital arrest scam. The case, which surfaced in October... Read More


virar-dahanu corridor to get 15-car local trains soon

MUMBAI, Dec. 5 -- Western Railway (WR) is set to begin a critical three-month upgrade at Virar that will pave the way for operating 15-car trains on the 60-km Virar-Dahanu corridor, a move expected to... Read More


BMC polls may be held mid-Jan

Mumbai, Dec. 5 -- As most of the 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra are on track with election preparations, including drafting a list of duplicate entries in the electoral rolls, the polls are ... Read More


shuffle in bmc: addl civic chief Saini moved out, Avinash Dhakne to take charge

MUMBAI, Dec. 5 -- In a significant administrative reshuffle ahead of the long-pending BMC elections, additional municipal commissioner (eastern suburbs) Dr Amit Saini has been transferred. The state g... Read More


HC grants bail to ex-DU professor Hany Babu

MUMBAI, Dec. 5 -- The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Delhi University professor Hany Babu, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case, citing his prolonged pre-trial incar... Read More


Carpenter falls to his death from work site in vikhroli

MUMBAI, Dec. 5 -- Four days after a 37-year-old labourer died after falling from second floor of an under-construction building in Vikhroli, another fatal incident in the same neighbourhood has shed l... Read More