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No legal marriage rights for same-sex couples, rules SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant legal recognition to same-sex couples and said only Parliament and state legislatures can validate marital unions in a ruling that disappointed millions Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) people in India.

17 Yrs On, Nithari 'House Of Horrors' Now In Ruins

The D-5 Kothi has become a landmark of sorts in Sector 31, a grim reminder though of the horrific crimes that came to be associated with a once sprawling bungalow, home to Moninder Singh Pandher and Surinder Koli, the main accused in the Nithari killings.

Zampa finds his zip as Australia finally register their first victory

Australia finally got their campaign off the floor with a five-wicket win over struggling Sri Lanka at the Ekana Stadium on Monday. Pat Cummins's team had been reeling from heavy defeats to India and South Africa, even finding themselves at the bottom of the points table on Sunday after Afghanistan upset holders England.

The script that earned T20 cricket a place at the 2028 Los Angeles Games

David Warner pulling the ball away, Jasprit Bumrah leaping in celebration, an acrobatic catch at the boundary. These visuals were all part of a video presentation at the IOC Session here made to introduce cricket as one of the five new proposed sports for the 2028 Olympics.

Early festive cheer, World Cup effect lift consumption

Demand for consumer goods and personal care products has picked up ahead of the peak Diwali shopping season after clocking dull sales in the first few months of the fiscal year.

England's batters bad at attacking in this World Cup

Bowling concerns noo und England's boul

Minimum export price for basmati rice irks traders

India will continue to apply a minimum export price of $1,200 per tonne on basmati price to curb overseas shipments, according to a notification on Sunday, but the government is \"actively reviewing\" the floor price it had set in August based on requests by exporters, an official said.

DS Group exploring acquisition of Noida's Great India Place mall

DS Group, the makers of Rajnigandha pan masala and Catch spices, is exploring the acquisition of the Great India Place Mall complex at Noida in Delhi-NCR, two people aware of the development said. A deal is likely at around ₹2,000 crore, they said, which would make it one of the biggest in Noida's real estate sector.

WPI inflation contracts for six months in a row

Wholesale prices, as measured by the wholesale price index (WPI), contracted for the sixth consecutive month in September, according to data released on Monday by the Union ministry of commerce and industry, coming in at -0.26% from -0.52% for the previous month.

Worldwide MDB climate finance hits $100bn

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) have managed to raise $100 billion in climate finance for mitigation as well as adaptation efforts last year, a new report claims. And around $60.7 billion of that went to low and middle income countries.

Muslim boy killed in attack linked to war

An Illinois man was charged with hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother in an attack that targeted them for their religion and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, officials and Muslim rights activists said on Sunday.

Aid stuck as Gaza hospitals near collapse

As Gaza braces for an Israeli ground offensive, hospitals struggle to cope

Top court verdict on validity of same-sex marriage today

The Supreme Court is set to deliver its verdict on a clutch of petitions demanding legal recognition for same-sex marriages on Tuesday, a ruling that would map out India's jurisprudential acknowledgment of marriage equality and the realisation of rights that may emerge from such endorsement by the highest court of the land.

Complaint against TMC MP sent to House panel

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has referred to the parliamentary privileges committee a complaint from BJP lawmaker Nishikant Dubey alleging Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra accepted cash and gifts from a member of the Hiranandani family to ask questions, senior officials said on Monday, even as the Hiranandani Group denied the allegations.

After three months, Centre clears appointment of Manipur HC CJ

The Union government on Monday notified the much-delayed appointment of Delhi high court judge Siddharth Mridul as the new full-time chief justice of the Manipur high court, more than three months after the collegium's recommendation.

Delhi HC allows CPR to use 25% of funds to pay salaries to employees

CPR'S LICENCE TO RECEIVE FOREIGN FUNDS WAS SUSPENDED BY THE GOVT IN FEBRUARY 2023, AND ITS ACCOUNTS WERE ALSO FROZEN

JD(S) won't join NDA, says K'taka unit chief

Disquiet grew within the Janata Dal (Secular) over its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, with the party's Karnataka unit president CM Ibrahim on Monday saying the JD(S) will not join the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), defying the decision taken by party supremo and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda.

Polls may lead to a shortened winter session

The winter session of Parliament the last full session before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections might be a shorter one, officials indicated on Monday.

Appeasement politics will not end if Cong wins: Shah

The Congress will continue doing \"appeasement\" politics for a vote bank if it returns to power in Chhattisgarh after the assembly elections next month, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Monday and accused the Bhupesh Baghel government of being corrupt.

NewsClick founder, HR head move SC against arrest

NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and its human resources department head Amit Chakravarty on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking urgent hearing against the Delhi high court's refusal to interfere with their arrest and police remand in a case lodged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

Apex court refers electoral bonds pleas to 5-judge Constitution bench

The Supreme Court on Monday referred to a Constitution bench of five judges the final adjudication of a clutch of petitions challenging the validity of the central government's electoral bonds (EB) scheme as a source of political funding.

'Gas leak' at Naraina unit leads to panic

Panic was triggered among residents of Naraina village in west Delhi after a strong stench from what officials said was a chemical storage warehouse filled the area late on Sunday evening - possibly due to a leakage-prompting the immediate closure of the unit and a nearby government school the next morning.

SC seeks secretariat reply on Chadha plea

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the Rajya Sabha secretariat on a petition filed by Aam Aadmi Party lawmaker Raghav Chadha challenging his indefinite suspension from the Upper House.

Dwarka e-way's Ggm leg set to open in November, say officials

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is carrying out a detailed safety audit of the 18.9km stretch constructed under packages three and four of the Dwarka Expressway in Gurugram, ahead of the highway's likely opening by the end of November, officials said.

Old City traders wake up to a garbage crisis

The main bazar street was littered with garbage as heaps of waste spilled out of dustbins, and four dirty public convenience facilities were raising a stink, as the revamped Chandni Chowk stretch between the Red Fort and the Fatehpuri Mosque on Monday looked like a dirty thoroughfare urgently in need of civic attention.

May make AAP accused in excise case, ED tells SC

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday told the Supreme Court that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) could be named as an accused in connection with the Delhi excise scam in which two senior party functionaries - former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and Member of Parliament Sanjay Singh-are already under arrest.

Families of accused say legal battle took toll on them too

When Surinder Koli was arrested after discovery of human remains of at least 19 victims in December 2006, his wife Shanti and their young daughter were still in his ancestral village of Mangrukhal in Almora district of Uttarakhand - a small hamlet with around 55 houses.

Plan for solar panels along Najafgarh drain

Authorities plan to install more than 10,000 solar panels along a 6km stretch of the Najafgarh drain as a pilot project, people aware of the proposal said on Monday, adding the project, which will be executed jointly by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) and BSES, will generate around 5 megawatts (MW) of power.

17-yr wait for justice was meaningless, say distraught families

Minutes after the Allahabad high court acquitted Moninder Singh Pandher and Surinder Koli in relation to the 2006 serial murders of Nithari, a man let out a loud cry in front of the D-5 kothi in Noida. \"How can they walk free? They killed my niece,\" the 52-year-old said.

White-ball cricket's sucker punch

It has almost been drilled into us. Over and over again. If you have watched enough cricket, you would have heard Sunil Gavaskar talking about West Indies and fast bowling.