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Court holds that due to government order still in force suspending all visa services to Pakistani nationals after Pahalgam terror attack, the petitioner cannot demand that her visa application be processed

After months of wait-and-watch, India is calling out differences with Trump head on as domestic pressure mounts.

The meeting came on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump held a telephone conversation to review progress in bilateral cooperation

BLOs allege they were pressured to sign, and say that two men, claiming to be from the Belagavi City Corporation, brought a bulk of Form-7 applications seeking deletion of only Muslim names.

While late student’s father, Ravindra Wakode, refused to speak to the media, the family’s lawyer said they have not received any response from the government so far over their demands

HC Bench recuses from NIA’s appeal against bail for Sachin Vaze in Antilia case, directing assignment to another panel as questions linger over evidence and timing of witness statements

Attacks come against backdrop of tense Statewide standoff between Youth Congress activists and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha supporters after Congress workers waved black flags as Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s convoy passed through Kollam on September 26

On the night of August 14, Mahua Moitra claimed in a social media post that a large crowd had gathered outside the circuit house, shouting "Jai Shri Ram" slogans after she refused to leave the premises

Amit Shah said the people of Punjab are waging a decisive battle against drugs, and to unite the State in eradicating them, the BJP launched the 'Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra' on September 18

The signatories, who wrote to CJI on the eve of India’s 80th Independence day, invoked the Supreme Court’s 2021 judgment in K.A. Najeeb, which held that prolonged incarceration can violate an accused person’s fundamental right to a speedy trial under Article 21 of the Constitution

India’s opposition parties are stepping up pressure to remove the country’s top election official over a controversial revision of electoral rolls.

ECI withdraws SIR declaration from Form 6 in States where the exercise is over

First such official visit by Indian delegation since Operation Indoor; Senior External Affair Ministry official leads team at three-day SCO preparatory meeting 

From growing trust deficit in Indian politics to the mishandling of the youth protest at Jantar Mantar, BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi, in an interview to The Hindu, speaks at length on various burning issues in the country. On the Ayodhya Ram Temple, he holds the government responsible for the temple trust’s functioning and stressed the need for fair elections and public trust in the SIR process

“India rejects unwarranted references to India and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir made by the President of Turkiye during his UNGA address,” Randhir Jaiswal said

LJP(RV) chief says the party is open to a seat-sharing arrangement with the NDA but will contest all seats in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab if no agreement is reached

Additional Solicitor General tells Madras High Court that he has been asked by the Union Ministry of Law and Justice to leave the matter to be argued by the Election Commission

Appearing before CJI Surya Kant, senior advocates, representing petitioner Rakesh Kumar Singh, made an oral mentioning for early hearing of the plea which urged the court to direct that Gyanesh Kumar should not exercise the functions of Chief Election Commissioner, pending final hearing of this petition

External Affairs Minister S. v says terrorism from Pakistan is a primary Indian concern, and its lack of full appreciation by partners affects ties, amid warming Washington-Islamabad relations

Over 4,000 Form-7 seek deletion of names, largely Muslim voters, across Congress, BJP seats

Congress Working Committee to meet today (September 29) to discuss the “internal differences” in the ECI

Academic Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd questions the interference of the PMO in the syllabus of universities, which ought to be in the purview of the Department of Higher Education or University Grants Commission

He challenges UDF government and the Dairy Development department to supply evidence of corruption; says that people cannot be blamed for suspecting that the dissolution was part of a clandestine move to destroy Milma

Justice Pardiwala said the alleged crime reveals the systemic failure on the part of the Government of Delhi NCR and the capital’s police to ensure basic public safety.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh says poll panel’s proposed measures amount to an admission that the electoral roll revision exercise has been a ‘disaster’; fails to address concerns about ECINet, Form 6 changes

The meeting is part of a campaign by the Congress against the ritual that was conducted by a few people in Haldwani after a rally addressed by party president Mallikarjun Kharge 

The protesters waved black flags against Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at separate locations in Kozhikode district on September 27

The issue of submission of 1,564 applications by just seven individuals in Babaleshwar has raised several suspicions; that these applications largely contain the names of Muslim voters serves as evidence of the BJP’s attempt at vote theft, Mr. Patil says