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Jammu: Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday dismissed the opposition's attempt to revive the autonomy plank during the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls and asked the NC-Congress alliance to stop fooling people by promising statehood as only the Centre can restore the status. Shah assured people...

Kolkata: Arrested former principal of RG Kar hospital Sandip Ghosh has been operating a "criminal nexus” along with the other "co-accused” for “wrongful gains”, according to initial findings of the CBI's probe into financial irregularities at the medical establishment here, an officer claimed Saturday. The...

Guwahati: All new applicants for Aadhaar cards in Assam need to submit their NRC application receipt number (ARN), Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Saturday. A detailed standard operating procedure (SOP) will be prepared for the purpose and this will be implemented from October 1,...

Islamabad: In a rare public acknowledgement by a serving Pakistani army chief, General Asim Munir has mentioned the involvement of Pakistan army in the Kargil war as he listed the 1999 conflict with India among the major wars fought with the eastern neighbour. Munir, the...

Imphal: The Manipur government has pressed into service a military chopper to conduct aerial patrolling and deployed anti-drone systems to repel the rogue drones of militants hours after five persons were killed in separate incidents of violence in the state's Jiribam district Saturday, officials said....

Lucknow: Five people were killed and 24 others were injured when a three-storey building collapsed in the Transport Nagar area of Lucknow Saturday evening, officials said. As per information provided by the office of the UP Relief Commissioner, the injured have been rushed to Lok...

New Delhi: The central government has discharged Puja Khedkar from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) with immediate effect, over a month after the Union Public Service Commission cancelled her selection, official sources said Saturday. Khedkar, who was a trainee officer from the 2023 batch, has been...

Hathras: The death toll in the bus accident that occurred here yesterday has reached 17 after two children succumbed during treatment, officials said Saturday. Sixteen people -- 11 in Hathras and 5 in Aligarh -- are still undergoing treatment, District Magistrate of Hathras Ashish Kumar...

Kolkata: The West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) Saturday issued a show cause notice to the former principal of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, Sandip Ghosh. Sources said that if Ghosh does not give any reply to the showcase notice within the next 72 hours,...

New Delhi: Former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president, Brij Bhushan Singh lashed out at wrestler Vinesh Phogat, a day after she and Bajrang Punia joined the Congress ahead of the Haryana Assembly polls and accused her of cheating at the Olympics. Singh Saturday claimed...