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A discreet complaint about a young employee’s behavioral changes at TCS Nashik BPO triggered a covert police investigation. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court advocate Ashwini Upadhyay on Thursday filed a plea seeking to declare forced religious conversions a “terrorist act.”The plea came in the backdrop of allegations of religious conversion and sexual harassment at Tata Consultancy…

TVK chief Vijay (File photo) NEW DELHI: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay on Thursday unveiled the party’s manifesto for the Tamil Nadu assembly polls, a week before all 234 constituencies in the state are set to vote.The counting of votes will be held on May 4.The actor-politician, who launched TVK in February 2024, made…

NEW DELHI: A ground collision between two aircraft at Indira Gandhi International Airport on Thursday left both planes damaged after a SpiceJet aircraft, while taxiing, struck a stationary Akasa Air plane.Officials said the impact occurred on the taxiway, with the wings of the two aircraft coming into contact, forcing both to be grounded for inspection.According…

Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the BJP is planning to “plant bombs” during the upcoming state assembly elections.She further claimed that the BJP—ruling at the Centre and the principal opposition in West Bengal—would then bring in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to investigate the…

Actor Vijay has made his first political bet, with a bold but risky strategy.By taking the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) into the 2026 Tamil Nadu assembly election without allies, he is stepping into a political arena where alliances have historically determined winners. In a state long dominated by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the…

Amit Shah, Akhilesh Yadav clash in Lok Sabha. NEW DELHI: A heated debate took place between home minister Amit Shah and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday as a special Parliament session was held to discuss Constitution Bill, Union Territories Laws and the Delimitation Bill.Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Yadav slammed the Centre…

NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Thursday introduced the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to amend the women’s reservation law after a division of votes, with 251 members supporting the move and 185 opposing it.The Bill, which seeks to operationalise women’s reservation before the 2029 general elections, was tabled alongside two ordinary legislations, the Delimitation Bill…

NEW DELHI: In a bid to tackle growing obesity in India, the ICMR has launched a nationwide exercise to find out what actually works to reduce weight and related health risks, at a time when nearly one in four adults in the country is overweight or obese.The scale of the problem is becoming hard to…

Photo credit: PTI UNITED NATIONS: India has asserted that any reform of the United Nations Security Council not accompanied by expansion in the permanent category with veto would perpetuate existing imbalance and inequities in the UN organ.Addressing the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) meeting on Security Council reforms on Tuesday, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador…

NEW DELHI: A cleric has been arrested in the Amroha triple talaq and halala case nearly three months after the matter first came into focus, with the survivor alleging that he facilitated a Feb 2025 nikah using a fake document that led to her gang rape under the pretext of halala. The woman, who said…