SUPREME COURT REJECTS OBC QUOTA HIKE IN TELANGANA
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon knocked down a Telangana government plea challenging the High Court’s interim stay on expanded reservations – past the 50 per cent cap set by the top court in its landmark 1992 Indra Sawhney judgment – for Other Backward Classes, or OBC, communities. The state argued that increasing […]
JDU SLASHES MUSLIM CANDIDATES TO ONLY 4 AS AGAINST 10 LAST TIME
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) has fielded Muslim candidates in four seats for the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, carefully balancing caste equations with community vote banks in the politically sensitive state. The four candidates are among the 44 names announced in the second list released by Bihar’s ruling party Thurssday […]
SC HEARING ON SIR INCONCLUSIVE, ADJOURNED TO NOV 4
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) June 24 directive for a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi is hearing the matter. The petitioners have raised concerns that the SIR process permits […]
18 IN THIRD BJP’S LIST TO COMPLETE 101 TALLY
NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janata Party late Wednesday night released the third list of 18 candidates in Bihar to complete its tally of 101 candidates allotted to it in the seat-sharing distribution. Earlier in the day, the party had released its second list of 12 candidates while 71 names were released on Tuesday. The BJP […]
NITISH GETS 5 SEATS THAT CHIRAG PASWAN WANTED
NEW DELHI: A day after its ally BJP, the Nitish Kumar-led JDU has released its first list of 57 candidates for the upcoming Bihar election. Five ministers in the current government have retained their seats. Three strongmen, including Anant Kumar Singh, also feature in the JDU’s first list. Four women candidates are on the first […]
JDU CHALLENGES BJP TO DECLARE NITISH AS CM FACE
NEW DELHI: The uneasy calm within the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar deepened on Wednesday after the Janata Dal (United) [JDU] openly challenging its senior ally, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), to declare Nitish Kumar as the NDA’s chief ministerial candidate. The sharp reaction came in response to what JDU leaders described as […]
DAYDREAMING GOOD FOR YOUR CAREER
NEW DELHI: Daydreaming can lead to epiphanies and greater career purpose, new research finds. The legendary tale of the business leader who had an epiphany that fundamentally changed his or her professional journey—turning hobbies, small observations, or frustrations into billion-dollar ideas—is well known. Julia Child writing her first cookbook at 50 and becoming a famous […]
GREEN CRACKERS ALLOWED IN DELHI-NCR ON DIWALI
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the bursting of green crackers in Delhi-NCR on the occasion of Diwali (October 20) but within a restricted time limit. As per the top court’s order, firecrackers will be allowed only between 6 am and 7 am, and then from 8 pm to 10 pm and will […]
