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New Delhi: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh Monday hit out at the Election Commission for the "tone and tenor" of its recent letter to his party while also urging the poll body to act against "communal and incendiary rhetoric" allegedly used by Assam Chief Minister Himanta...

Kolkata: Eighty-seven days after the body of a woman medic was discovered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a city court Monday framed charges against the prime accused Sanjay Roy who claimed he has been framed. The court announced that day-to-day trial would commence...

Kolkata: As many as 80 different associations have united to create a platform christened 'Abhaya Manch' to continue the protests after the rape and murder of a junior doctor of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital here in August. The body of the doctor was...

Mumbai: Just two weeks before Maharashtra Assembly elections, state police chief Rashmi Shukla was removed by the Election Commission of India Monday amid Maha Vikas Aghadi’s allegations that she was favouring the BJP. Shukla, an IPS of 1998 batch and the first woman to appointed...

Dehradun: A privately operated bus fell into a deep gorge in Uttarakhand's Almora district Monday, killing at least 36 of the about 60 people on board and injuring 24. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh for the next of...

Srinagar: J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, while commenting on PDP MLA Waheed ur Rehman Parra’s resolution opposing abrogation of Article 370, said Monday that the resolution tabled by a private member has little significance. Omar Abdullah said in the Assembly that a single MLA's private...

New Delhi: Two juveniles have been apprehended for allegedly hitting and dragging two Delhi Traffic Police personnel on their car's bonnet, officials said Monday. The incident took place Saturday evening at the Ber Sarai traffic signal near Vedant Deshika Marg. The traffic police personnel sustained...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday allowed a plea by Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan seeking relaxation of a bail condition of reporting to police every week in a UAPA case registered against him. A bench of Justices PS Narasimhan and Sandeep Mehta relaxed the bail...

Almora: In a major tragedy, at least 20 passengers lost their lives when the bus they were travelling in, careened off the road and fell into a 200-metre-deep gorge in Uttarakhand's Almora district Monday. Among the victims were several children, heightening the tragedy of the...

Brisbane: India and China have made ‘some progress’ in disengagement, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Sunday, describing it as a ‘welcome’ move which opens up the possibility that other steps could happen. His comment comes days after Indian and Chinese troops completed disengagement at...