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New Delhi: Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri Tuesday apologised to the high court here for his tweets against Justice S Muralidhar, who is current Chief Justice of Orissa HC and was a former Delhi HC judge. An affidavit to that effect was filed by Agnihotri withdrawing his...

Thiruvananthapuram: Congress Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor, who has been touring Kerala for some time now, found a strong supporter in veteran Congressman and former deputy chairperson of the Rajya Sabha Prof P J Kurien. Kurian Tuesday said that Tharoor has all that is required...

New Delhi: World Bank Tuesday revised upwards its GDP growth forecast for India to 6.9 per cent for 2022-23 from 6.5 per cent earlier. World Bank's India Development Update said India is affected by spillovers from the US, Euro area and China. It however saw...

Pratapgarh (Uttar Pradesh): In what seems to be a replay of Mahabharat, a woman put herself at stake while playing Ludo and then lost to her landlord. The woman, Renu, used to gamble with the money that her husband, who works in Rajasthan's Jaipur, sent...

New Delhi: India logged 165 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases further declined to 4,345, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Tuesday. The total tally of Covid cases stands at 4.46 crore (4,46,73,783). The death toll has climbed to 5,30,633 with two...

New Delhi: India is a secular country and everybody has a right to their religion, the Supreme Court said Monday while dismissing a PIL seeking to declare late religious figure Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra as 'Paramatma'. A bench of Justices M R Shah and...

Patna: RJD president Lalu Prasad's kidney transplant surgery Monday in Singapore was successful, his son and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav said. Yadav said his father, as well as elder sister Rohini Acharya, who donated one of her kidneys to the 74-year-old, were fine....

Srinagar: Farooq Abdullah was re-elected president of the National Conference (NC) for another term Monday. The 85-year-old leader was unanimously elected the party's chief at the NC's delegate session held near the masoleum of party founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah at Naseem Bagh here. The day...

Srinagar: Polling was underway Monday in two district development council (DDC) constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir where a re-poll was ordered by election authorities due to disputed qualification of candidates, officials said. The polling for the DDC seats of Hajin-A in Bandipora and Drugmulla in...

New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 226 coronavirus infections, while active cases declined to 4,434, according to the Union health ministry data updated Monday. The case tally stood at 4.46 crore (4,46,73,618). The death toll climbed to 5,30,630 with two fatalities reconciled by...