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New Delhi: The CBI conducted searches at 16 locations in three states including poll-bound Jharkhand in connection with the state's illegal stone mining scam in Nimbu Pahar in which an alleged political aide of Chief Minister Hemant Soren is under the scanner, officials said. The...

New Delhi: India will launch the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission early next month from the spaceport at Sriharikota, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said in New Delhi Tuesday. Singh said the two satellites that are part of the Proba-3 mission to study the...

Pune: Hinting at retirement from parliamentary politics, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar Tuesday said he will have to think about whether he should seek another Rajya Sabha term after his current tenure ends. Speaking at a campaign rally for grand-nephew Yugendra Pawar at Supa in...

New Delhi: The Winter Session of Parliament is scheduled to begin on November 25 and continue till December 20, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said Tuesday. Rijiju said a special celebration to mark the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution will be held...

Mumbai: The Election Commission of India on Tuesday approved the appointment of IPS officer Sanjay Kumar Verma as Maharashtra's Director General of Police. Verma, of the 1990 batch, is currently the Director General, Law and Technical. He is due to retire in April 2028. Verma’s...

Ramanagara (Karnataka): Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel, HD Kumaraswamy expressed outrage Tuesday, calling the FIR filed against him based on a complaint by a senior IPS officer, Lokayukta SIT chief, M. Chandrashekar as “ridiculous and malicious.” While campaigning for his son and NDA...

New Delhi: Opposition MPs part of the parliamentary committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Tuesday to register their protest against alleged unilateral decisions being taken by panel chairman and BJP MP Jagdambika Pal. They said the speaker listened to...

New Delhi: Indian Rare Earths Limited, (IREL) and Kazakhstan’s Ust-Kamenogorsk Titanium and Magnesium Plant JSC, (UKTMP JSC) have signed an agreement to establish an Indo-Kazakh joint venture company, IREUK Titanium Limited, for the production of Titanium Slag in India, according to an official statement issued...

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court Tuesday issued notice to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others on a writ petition filed by RTI activist Snehamayi Krishna seeking a direction to transfer the MUDA site allotment case to CBI. Justice M Nagaprasanna, who also issued notice to Siddaramaiah's...

New Delhi: In a big relief to madrasas in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the constitutional validity of the 2004 Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrasa Education Law and set aside an Allahabad High Court verdict quashing it on the ground that it was...