The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment ) Bill, 2022 will be introduced by Home Minister Amit Shah in Lok Sabha today. The Bill proposes that the number of seats in the unified corporation will not be more than 250 and will be determined by the “Central Government at the time of the establishment of the Corporation”

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The Western representatives called on the Taliban to urgently reverse the order as it will have consequences far beyond harming Afgan girls.

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Many Asian-Pacific countries are dismantling thickets of COVID-19 rules at bewildering speeds, even though the omicron variant of the coronavirus is still raging in parts of the region.

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Congress government in the State creates institutional mechanism to protect them

V K Sasikala's affidavit of 2018 and submissions of doctors of the Apollo Hospitals that treated the late AIADMK supremo formed the pivot on which the panel largely revolved to find answers.

Anstruther library will finally return to normal opening hours if remaining Covid rules are shelved after Easter. The announcement follows a long-running

Images of Elizabeth Wangoi, the lady who was crying outside the church with a shoe on her hand also went viral and remains in the memory of many Kenyans.

Three days after the carnage, CM visited Bogtui village, where eight people were charred to death by an armed mob on Mar 21. Mamata’s visit had two fallouts: one, the main accused was arrested by police within hours by tracing his cellphone network, two, family members of the victims had a chance to speak to CM openly.

The first round of negotiation between protesting teachers and the authorities remains inconclusive.

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The conflict in Yemen between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and pro-government troops shows no signs of abating and the country teeters on the edge of famine.

According to the news received from Varanasi, before attending the swearing-in ceremony of Yogi Adityanath government, BJP office-bearers and workers in Varanasi also prayed in various temples and sought blessings for the government.

They’re the first local juveniles charged with hate crime since the start of 2020. The alleged assault lasted an hour.

The Everett City Council approved a $2 million contract to find alternative designs for the highly trafficked spot.

A Ventura County man was charged [Thursday] in a superseding indictment that alleges he illegally imported into the United States more than 1,700 reptiles – including 60 reptiles found hidden in his clothes last month at the United States-Mexico border.

Quebec's justice minister says he's looking into a criminal trial in the province involving a police informant that took place entirely in secret and was kept off the official court docket.

Mr Taiwo's cause list showed that the judgement on the defection of Governor Ayade of Cross River State from PDP to APC has been shifted...

The tiny terrors have been wreaking havoc in Corsham, Wiltshire, where they are allowed to run around without a lead.

Adityanath has earned a new sobriquet 'bulldozer baba' due to raging of properties of criminals and mafias built through illegal means.

The Durban University of Technology has blamed police inactivity for another “violent” protest at the institution on Thursday.

'We want maximum voting and a healthy system. People from the whole world appreciate our system'

Without enough newsprint, The Island suspends print edition 

The ‘Mysore Declaration-2022’ was adopted at the 96th AIU annual meeting and the National Vice-Chancellors’ Conference which concluded at the University of Mysore

The government is considering the option of housing Ukrainian refugees in so-called refugee villages as their number may run into the hundreds of thousands in the next six months, the NRC reports. The paper had access to a government inventory in which the possibility of setting up such villages, which could house thousands of Ukrainians, is mentioned but without much detail. The document, of which the official status is unclear, also said Ukrainians could assist the police in maintaining public...

'The Hindu electorate is more or less in the BJP defined space now.'

Let’s say that three years ago, two political parties – let’s call them Liberals and NDP – agreed on a coalition to govern. Among the thousands of policies in these last three eventful years, which ones would have been made contractually harmonious and free from harm?

An administrator at an Atlanta Christian school bragged on Facebook about using school records to identify students who were old enough to vote for the Democratic candidates in the 2020 Georgia Senate runoff.

The aspirants fell sick with COVID-19 when exam was held in January

This appointment will determine just how big Kahana's revolution is going to be.

A bill to merge Delhi's three municipal corporations in the national capital into a single entity was introduced in Lok Sabha on Friday amid opposition claims that the move was beyond the legislative competence of Parliament.

The monk-turned politician will take the reins of the most populous state for a second time in a row after completing his full five-year term.

More often than not, Moi used the presidential limousine and occasionally waved to the onlooking crowd through the sunroof.

A bill to merge the three municipal corporations in the national capital into a single entity was introduced in Lok Sabha on Friday amid opposition claims that the move was beyond the legislative competence of Parliament.

With BJP's return to power in Uttar Pradesh, the monk-politician has consolidated his place in the organisation.

As CM, he took decisions that confirmed his image as a Hindutva mascot. Early in the first term, he banned illegal slaughterhouses and the state police cracked down on cow slaughter. But the menace of stray cattle created disquiet among farmers, presenting the Adityanath government with a new challenge.

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But question of compensation still to be settled

Prince Charles is more fitted to sit on the throne than he is to stand behind a bar, at least if his latest attempt at pulling a Guinness is any indication. The 73-year-old royal, who is next in line to the throne, sparked plenty of laughter during his visit to the Irish Cultural Centre (ICC) in [...]

Justice says wife made ‘ill-considered’ bid to secure best terms in ‘particularly bitter’ separation case

Nine resolutions passed; stress on realising SDGs

The constituency is represented by BJP’s Vijay Kumar Sinha in the Assembly and JD(U)‘s Lalan Singh in Parliament

A Vernon city councillor says the alternative approval process for a new cultural centre in downtown Vernon is not telling "the whole truth."

Literary festival is being held at the Sahitya Bhavan on Saturday and Sunday

It is the Navy’s premier technological training establishment

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Clash between school, corporation over accommodating anganwadi