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Mumbai: In an unusually tough move ahead of the Assembly elections, the Maharashtra Congress President Nana F. Patole has ordered suspension of 28 rebels – comprising candidates or saboteurs – for a period of six years with immediate effect, a party leader said here Monday....

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu Monday administered the oath of office to Justice Sanjiv Khanna as the Chief Justice of India (CJI) in a swearing-in ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here. Justice Khanna will be the 51st CJI and will have around six months...

Mumbai: BJP Sunday promised to enact an-anti conversion law with stringent provisions in Maharashtra, and also assured a skill census for training as per industry needs as well as free ration to low-income families. Union Home Minister Amit Shah unveiled in Mumbai the 25-point 'Sankalp...

Mumbai: The opposition MVA Sunday released its manifesto for the Maharashtra Assembly polls, promising free cervical cancer vaccines for girls aged 9 to 16 and two optional leave days for women employees during menstruation. The manifesto, titled 'Maharashtranama', also assured a caste-based census, establishment of...

Jammu: A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Army's special forces laid down his life Sunday, while three more soldiers were injured in a gunfight with terrorists in a remote forest area in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, officials said. The operation comes amid an...

Bokaro: Alleging that the Congress-JMM coalition wanted to divide OBCs by pitting sub-castes against each other, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday told an election rally in Jharkhand 'ek rahoge toh safe rahoge' (be united to be safe). Addressing the rally in Bokaro, Modi claimed that...

New Delhi: Security has been beefed up outside the Canadian High Commission here as members of a Hindu-Sikh outfit marched towards it in protest against attacks on Hindu temples in Canada. The Hindu Sikh Global Forum members are marching towards the High Commission in the...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will Monday swear in Justice Sanjiv Khanna as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI). Justice Khanna will be the 51st CJI and will have around 6 months term in office. As a Supreme Court judge, he has been part...

New Delhi: Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will jointly hold here November 12 a key session of the intergovernmental Russian-Indian commission on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation during his ‘working visit’ to India. As part...

New Delhi: The Congress Sunday claimed that India was facing a "demand crisis" due to sustained income stagnation and said the 'double engine' of private investment and mass consumption that powered the UPA's decade of sustained GDP growth has been "derailed" in the last ten...