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Mumbai: Stock markets rose sharply Monday, with Sensex closing higher by 676 points and Nifty climbing 1 per cent on heavy buying in auto and consumer durables stocks, buoyed by plans for big bang reforms in the GST regime by Diwali. The 30-share BSE Sensex...

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress Monday filed a petition with a single judge bench of the Calcutta High Court against the Election Commission of India (ECI), challenging its decision to seek details of booth-level agents (BLAs) from individual political parties a year before the Assembly elections...

Beirut: The US special envoy to Lebanon said Monday that his team would discuss the long-term cessation of hostilities with Israel, after Beirut endorsed a US-backed plan for the Hezbollah militant group to disarm. Tom Barrack, following a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, also...

Patna: The Election Commission (EC) Monday came out with the names of 65 lakh people who were removed from the draft electoral rolls published as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise, officials said. The development came after the Supreme Court directed the EC...

Mumbai: Mumbaikars woke up to very heavy rainfall Monday, while the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a ‘red' alert, forecasting extremely heavy rains at isolated places in the city and adjoining areas, prompting the civic body to declare a holiday for schools and colleges, officials...

New York: Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed that the United States and its European allies could extend NATO-style security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a potential deal to end the war, a US official said Sunday following his summit with President Donald Trump....

Washington: Ukraine's future could hinge on a hastily assembled meeting Monday at the White House as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky brings with him an extraordinary cadre of European leaders to show US President Donald Trump a united front against Russia. The European political heavy-hitters were...

New York: Ahead of his Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Monday, US President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine should give up claims to territories currently occupied by Russia, even as Zelensky prepared for talks alongside a group of European leaders. It was...

New Delhi: Plans for big bang reforms in the GST regime by Diwali, the Putin-Trump summit and S&P upgrading India's sovereign credit rating are likely to instil optimism in the domestic equity market in the week ahead, analysts said. Besides, trends in global markets and...

Aurangabad (Bihar): In a scathing attack on the Election Commission after its press conference, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday said the poll body is colluding with the BJP to carry out "vote chori openly" in the name of Special Intensive Revision in Bihar and asserted...