China says US military assistance to Taiwan is pushing the selfgoverning island republic into a “dangerous situation”

The Supreme Court Wednesday said the Constitution intended to bring about a “sense of social transformation” and it would be “dangerous” to say that the private property of an individual cannot be regarded as material resources of community and taken over by state authorities to subserve “common good”.

The curtains came down Wednesday evening on a high-voltage campaigning for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls in 89 seats across 13 states Friday (April 26).

Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, 5T Chairman VK Pandian and BJP’s national vice-president Baijayant Panda will get ‘Z’ scale security, BJP’s state president Manmohan Samal, OPCC president Sarat Pattanayak and Kantabanji MLA Santosh Singh Saluja will be given ‘Y’ scale security keeping in view the threat perceptions during the poll.

A POCSO court in Ganjam district Wednesday sentenced two men to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment each for raping a 15-year-old girl last year.

The West Bengal government has moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court order invalidating the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff made by the state’s School Service Commission (SSC) in state-run and state-aided schools.

AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal has said he will move the Supreme Court against the Assam government’s decision to close the state-run madrasas. The sitting Dhubri MP expressed hope that the apex court will order reopening of all closed madrasas in Assam.

In a major announcement, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi here Wednesday assured of setting up a special farmers commission to tackle the problems of agriculture loans and set up a mechanism to ease the financial burden of the land-tillers, and ensure ‘nyay’ (justice) to various sections of the society.

The Jharkhand government sounded an alert after bird flu cases were reported in a staterun poultry farm in Ranchi, an official said Wednesday. As many as 2,196 birds including 1,745 chickens were culled at the Regional Poultry Farm, Hotwar, an official told PTI.

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Kannauj, the party announced Wednesday, two days after it had declared another candidate for the Uttar Pradesh seat.

Alleging the Tihar Jail administration cancelled Delhi Minister Atishi’s meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the last moment, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh Wednesday said “even the British rule did not see this kind of behaviour”

A Delhi court Wednesday granted time to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to file response to the replies filed by the ED on his two petitions seeking revision against an order on allegedly evading the agency’s summonses in the excise policy case.

As many as 18 Naxalites, including a militia platoon section commander and three women, surrendered Wednesday in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada, a senior police officer said. Hidma Oyam (34) was working as the Hurrepal Panchayat Militia Platoon (HPMP) section commander, said Dantewada Superintendent of Police Gaurav Rai.

Merger and acquisition (M&A) deal value soared by 60 per cent to $19.6 billion in January-March 2024, while that of private equity (PE) experienced a slight dip, according to a PwC India report.

The country’s drugs and pharmaceuticals exports increased 9.67 per cent year-on-year to $27.9 billion in 2023-24, even as the total exports dipped by 3 per cent in the last fiscal.