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Chandigarh: Olympic wrestler Vinesh Phogat Saturday joined protesting farmers at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana and said the central government should pay heed to their demands and make it a priority to address their issues. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and the Kisan...

Thiruvananthapuram: Top actor Mohanlal Saturday broke his silence over the shocking revelations in the Justice Hema Committee report which has shaken the Malayalam film industry, and said the entire industry is answerable to the questions raised but the actors' association is targeted and blamed for...

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a key accused involved in an international conspiracy to radicalise youngsters and establish an Islamic caliphate in India, an official statement said Saturday. It said Aziz Ahamed alias Aziz Ahmed alias Jaleel Aziz Ahmed was nabbed...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually flagged off three new Vande Bharat trains Saturday to enhance connectivity on three routes -- Meerut-Lucknow; Madurai-Bengaluru; and Chennai-Nagercoil and to save the time of commuters on these routes. PM Modi flagged off the three state-of-the-art Vande Bharat...

Kolkata: A civic volunteer of Kolkata Police was arrested Saturday for allegedly riding into a barricaded area with his motorcycle and injuring one of Rabindra Bharati University students who were holding a demonstration there against the rape and murder of a doctor, a senior officer...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday underlined the need for swift justice in cases involving crimes against women and said that it will give them greater assurance of their safety. Modi also said the judiciary is considered a guardian of the Constitution, and that...

New Delhi: Union Minister Annapurna Devi Friday asserted that existing laws were stringent enough to tackle violence and crimes against women and urged the West Bengal government to implement the same in "letter and spirit". In a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee,...

New Delhi: A chopper, being transported to the Gauchar airstrip by an Indian Air Force MI-17 helicopter for repairs, crashed in Uttarakhand's Rudraprayag Saturday morning. The chopper, operated by Crystal Aviation Company, had previously made an emergency landing near the Kedarnath helipad May 24, 2024,...

New Delhi: Doctors at the nation’s premier medical institute AIIMS-Delhi will hold a protest in the national Capital Saturday afternoon to seek justice for the rape and murder victim at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal. Vice president of the Federation of...

New Delhi: Surpassing the world’s leading digital payments platforms, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) processed nearly Rs 81 lakh crore transactions in the April-July period this year, which is a staggering 37 per cent increase (year-on-year). According to latest data by global payments hub Paysecure,...