Manipur violence claims another life as gunmen strike Senapati village Two Mao Naga men were shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Kalenjang village in Manipur’s Senapati district Saturday afternoon, with two others wounded, in the latest escalation in a Naga-Kuki conflict that has claimed more than 40 lives since Feb.The shooting took place under Senapati…

EC says SIR decisions taken unanimously by full commission NEW DELHI: Election Commission asserted Saturday that the decisions regarding special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were taken unanimously by chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and election commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.The statement came following the first meeting of the “full” Commission after…

Congress leaders paid homage to former PM Manmohan Singh NEW DELHI: Remembering him as a statesman and a visionary, Congress netas Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi Saturday led the party in paying homage to late Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his birth anniversary.Congress held a ceremony at the party office where the Gandhis,…

Describing Pakistan as a serial practitioner of terrorism in his UNGA address, foreign minister S Jaishankar said that there must be no dilution of the zero-tolerance approach to the menace. Without naming Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, who had raked up the Kashmir issue in his General Assembly speech on Friday, Jaishankar said he had misrepresented…

NEW DELHI: With EPFO increasing the mandatory wage ceiling from Rs 15,000 a month to Rs 25,000, employees will now contribute Rs 3,000 (at 12% contribution of Rs 25,000 wage) towards their PF savings from Rs 1,800 earlier, govt said in a set of FAQs released. This will be along with a contribution of Rs…

Opposition INDIA bloc parties will meet on September 30 to discuss alleged poll-roll manipulation under the SIR process and a possible joint campaign seeking CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation. NEW DELHI: Opposition INDIA bloc will meet on Sept 30 to discuss the alleged manipulation of poll rolls under SIR and a possible joint struggle to press…