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Kolkata: Former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar on Monday skipped questioning on the Saradha cheat fund scam, and instead sought seven days time from the CBI. Kumar was summoned for questioning at 10.30 a.m., but he sent a letter seeking a week’s time before he could present himself for the questioning, stating “personal reasons”. Two […]

New Delhi: A day after after being sworn in with his 57-member council of ministers by President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a bilateral meeting with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. In the first of a series of bilateral meetings with foreign leaders, Modi and Sirisena discussed issues of interest […]

New Delhi: An IIT post-graduate was arrested from Rajasthan for running a fake website named ‘Pradhan Mantri Free Laptop distribution Scheme-2019’ with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s picture to earn money from website traffic as well as get personal data of visitors to misuse, a police officer said on Sunday. “A team of Delhi Police Cyber […]

New Delhi: Former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was among the first to welcome the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) verdict on Kulbhushan Jadhav in favour of India and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for pursuing the case. She also thanked Harish Salve for presenting India’s case at the ICJ effectively and successfully and said that […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday expressed his condolences over the demise of former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, saying that he has lost a valued friend and that the BJP and Jaitley shared an unbreakable bond. Jaitley, 66, passed away after prolonged illness at the AIIMS on Saturday morning. Modi said in a […]

Chennai: The countdown for the launch of India’s advanced earth observation satellite Cartosat-3 using the rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-XL (PSLV-XL) is progressing smoothly, said an official of the Indian space agency. The rocket is scheduled to blast off from the second launch pad at 9.28 a.m. on Wednesday. The 26-hour countdown for the launch […]

Mumbai: Oil to telecom major Reliance Industries (RIL) on Thursday surpassed the Rs 10-lakh-crore in market capitalisation, becoming the first Indian company to do so. RIL hit its 52-week high on the BSE at Rs 1,581.25 a share, rising 0.64 per cent. While RIL gained nearly 40 per cent during the last year, the Nifty50 […]

Sonbhadra: In a government school in Uttar Pradesh’s Chopan block one litre of milk was allegedly mixed in a bucket of water and served to 81 children as part of their midday meal, following which a teacher was suspended on Friday. The incident reportedly took place on Wednesday and it came to light after a […]

Guwahati: Normal life came to a halt on Tuesday in Assam’s Brahmaputra Valley due to a statewide bandh called by two students’ organizations in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment)Bill, which has received Lok Sabha nod. The 11-hour shutdown, called by the All Assam Students’ Union and the North East Students’ Organisation – an apex body […]

Bengaluru: In the midst of nationwide protests over the amended Citizenship Act, Union Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi on Tuesday said that he has asked authorities to “shoot at sight” anybody who causes damage to Railway property. “If anyone is destroying railway property, then I ask the chief minister of the particular state […]

New Delhi: The polling for the 70-member Delhi Assembly got underway on Saturday morning, an election that saw the ruling AAP, opposition BJP and the Congress engaged in a bitterly fought high-octane campaign. Over 1.47 crore people are eligible to exercise their franchise in the polls that will decide the fate of 672 candidates. The […]

Guwahati: A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck western Assam and north Bengal on Saturday evening. There was no report of any damage or casualty, officials said. “The quake hit 35 km southeast of western Assam’s Bongaigaon and nearby north Bengal (under West Bengal) at 6.17 p.m. on Saturday evening,” an official of the India Meteorological Department said. […]

Kolkata: Veteran Bengali actor and former Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul died of cardiac arrest early Tuesday, family sources said. He was 61. Paul, who had gone to Mumbai to visit his daughter, complained of chest pain at the Mumbai airport during his return to Kolkata and was rushed to a hospital in Juhu but […]

Kota (Rajasthan): Twenty-four people were killed and five more sustained injuries after a private bus carrying a wedding party fell into a river on the Kota-Dausa highway in Bundi district on Wednesday morning, police said. The bus, with at least 29 people on board, was headed to Sawai Madhopur from Kota when its driver Shyam […]

Melbourne: India continued their winning run, beating New Zealand by four runs in a last-ball thriller of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup here on Thursday. With this win, India becomes the first team to qualify for the semifinal. Invited to bat, India posted a below-par 133 for eight against New Zealand in the crucial […]