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Bengaluru: A case was registered Saturday against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and others on the directions of a court in Bengaluru, following a complaint relating to the now-scrapped electoral bonds scheme. According to police, an FIR was registered under IPC sections 384 (punishment for...

Kolkata: Junior doctors and nurses continued their 'cease work' agitation at state-run Sagar Dutta Hospital in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district Saturday in protest against assault on staffers by the relatives of a patient. The staffers of the hospital located in Kamarhati near Kolkata...

Kolkata: Filmmaker Kiran Rao, whose Laapataa Ladies has been chosen as India's official entry for the 2025 Oscars, said that she stands firmly with those who raised their voice demanding justice for the deceased medic of RG Kar hospital. On the sidelines of a programme of...

New Delhi: The decomposed bodies of a 46-year-old man and his four daughters, two of whom were differently-abled, have been found in their rented accommodation in southwest Delhi's Vasant Kunj area, police said Saturday. The bodies, discovered Friday afternoon, did not have injury marks but...

Chennai: A fire broke out at a chemical godown of the electronics component factory of Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd in Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Saturday, police said. However, they said there were no casualties or injuries due to the incident. Seven fire...

New Delhi: Sweden has officially joined ISRO's Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM), approved last week by the Union Cabinet. The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) will reportedly provide ISRO with the Venusian Neutrals Analyser instrument (VNA) -- a lightweight, low-power but highly capable energetic neutral...

Srinagar: Four soldiers and a senior J&K Police officer were injured Saturday in an encounter between terrorists and the security forces in Kulgam district. Officials said that four soldiers and a senior police officer were injured during the gunfight in the Adigam area of the...

New Delhi: The government has exempted export of non-basmati white rice from customs duty. In a notification issued late Friday, the revenue department also reduced export duty on parboiled rice, husked (brown rice), and rice in the husk (paddy or rough) to 10 per cent....

Udhampur/Jammu: National Conference Vice president Omar Abdullah Friday said the deadly terror attacks in otherwise peaceful Jammu region reflects the alleged failure of the BJP which should seek forgiveness from the public of Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP by blaming NC, Congress and PDP for...

New Delhi: More than 67 crore Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts (ABHA) have been created, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Friday, marking the third anniversary of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). The ABHA service, a key feature under the ABDM, provides citizens with...