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Patna: The death toll in the hooch tragedy in Bihar's Siwan and Saran districts has mounted to 24, Director General of Police Bihar Alok Raj said Thursday. According to Alok Raj, 20 people have died in Siwan and four in Saran district after consuming spurious...

Chandigarh: OBC leader Nayab Singh Saini Thursday took oath as the chief minister of Haryana at a ceremony in Panchkula attended by a galaxy of NDA leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Anil Vij, Krishan Lal Panwar and Rao Narbir Singh were among those administered...

Jaipur: Another National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) aspirant from Uttar Pradesh allegedly died by suicide in Rajasthan's Kota district, police said Thursday. The deceased, identified as Ashutosh Chaurasia (20), a student from Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, preparing for NEET in Kota, was found hanging from a...

Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai police have arrested a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang in connection with an alleged plot to kill actor Salman Khan, an official said Thursday. The accused, Sukha alias Sukhbir Balbir Singh, was apprehended from Panipat in Haryana by a team...

Mumbai: A Mumbai-bound Vistara flight with 147 persons on board made an emergency landing here Thursday upon its arrival from Frankfurt in Germany following a bomb threat to the aircraft, a source said. The Boeing 787 aircraft was immediately taken to the isolation bay for...

Kolkata: The fast-unto-death strike by a section of medicos in the aftermath of the rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital here entered the thirteenth day Thursday. Eight hunger-strikers, seven in Kolkata and one in Siliguri of Darjeeling...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955. A Constitution Bench, headed by CJI D. Y. Chandrachud, was dealing with a clutch of petitions challenging the vires of Section 6A, which was inserted to give...

Panchkula: BJP's Nayab Singh Saini will take oath as the Chief Minister of Haryana Thursday for the party’s unprecedented third term with an absolute majority in the recently concluded Assembly election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s key allies will be in attendance. The oath-taking ceremony will...

Bhubaneswar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday issued notices to the Chief Secretary, Government of NCT of Delhi, and the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, calling for a detailed report within two weeks on the rape of a 34-year-old woman from Odisha October 10. Hearing...

New Delhi: In an initiative shedding the colonial imprint and traditional attributes, the statue of Lady Justice, in the judges' library of the Supreme Court, now holds a copy of the Indian Constitution, instead of a sword, and the blindfold has come off to leave...