The court also held that if the number of women in such list is equal to or more than the number of special reservation quota, then there is no need for further selection towards the special reservation quota.

The Indian Express spoke to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) technical team and independent experts to figure out what India’s largest subway system is doing to emerge from Covid.

JEE (Main) is the first national-level entrance test to be held amidst the pandemic. Around 8.58 lakh students are set to appear for it at 660 centres across India over six days, in 12 shifts.

Pages flagged by the BJP that are on the platform include the official account of the Bhim Army, satire site “We Hate BJP”, unofficial Congress-supporting pages, and a page called “The Truth of Gujarat” sharing mostly Alt News fact checks.

Hours after he was sentenced, Bhushan told a press conference that he would pay the fine, but he reserved his right to seek a review of the judgment holding him guilty of contempt.

Sushant Singh Rajput case: Sushant's sister Priyanka, who is a Supreme Court lawyer, also got a prescription arranged from Delhi when the actor pointed out that such medicines could not be obtained without a doctor’s advice.

GDP shrinks: slowdown plus Covid plus effect of lockdown

While concerns over the market’s over-valuation have been raised by various participants and even by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, many feel the markets were waiting to correct and news from the Line of Actual Control was the trigger.

The urgency also stems from the RBI’s assessment that initial greenshoots visible in May-June had reversed in July and August, and that it will take some for the economy to mend and regain momentum.

Indian troops have moved to occupy heights, foil bid to change status quo; Brigade Commander-level meeting on

Published by Harper Collins and co-authored by Sanjeev Mathur, the book highlights how the 2005-batch IPS officer leveraged the TV screen to flush out Asaram before arresting him in 2013 within 10 days of receiving a rape complaint from Delhi Police.

For the last four days, India has been detecting more than 75,000 new cases, a figure that no other country has touched.

With economic activity severely disrupted in the first two months of this fiscal, hit hard by a series of localised lockdowns and rising Covid-19 cases, GDP contraction for the first quarter is being pegged at an average 20 per cent by economists, with the de-growth range between 15.2 per cent and 25.5 per cent.

Much of this funding is being frontloaded for disbursal in the current year as an emergency response to the impact of the pandemic; some of the loan will likely come in 2021-22, government sources said.

It's been a year since 19 lakh people were excluded from the NRC in Assam. And they have not yet been issued rejection orders with which they can appeal at the state’s Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs).

Over the last month, several Opposition leaders have been critical of the state government on the Brahmin issue.

While a formal decision is yet to be taken, the issue is learnt to have been discussed at a high-level video conference between Railway Board top brass and zonal and divisional officials earlier this week.

This man’s contribution to the attack was highly appreciated by the key planner of the attack, Mohammed Umar Farooq — in a voice message sent to Pakistan, Mohammed Umar compared him to Afzal Guru, the 2001 Parliament attack convict who was hanged in 2013.

West Bengal Home Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay in a letter to Chairman of Railway Board Vinod Kumar Yadav said resumption of local trains and Metro services could be allowed, while maintaining Covid-19 protocols, including social distancing.

Sources said that the state government was likely to issue the guidelines in a day or two that may come into effect from September 2. "It is under consideration to increase the number of people in government and private offices," an official said.

On Saturday morning, a statement on the CSK official Twitter handle said Raina had returned to India because of personal reasons and the franchise offered “complete support to Suresh and his family during this time”.

The data, for the year 2019, also shows that among the marginalised groups, Muslims are the one community with more undertrials than convicts.

Option 1 won’t be treated as state debt; in Option 2, need to service interest on debt

India was one of the countries scheduled to participate in Kavkaz 2020 from September 15 to September 27.