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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday held that even in money laundering cases, bail is a rule and jail is an exception, and granted relief to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's aide in an illegal mining-related case registered by the Enforcement Directorate. A bench of...

Kolkata: Tension is aggravating in different pockets of West Bengal over the 12-hour general strike called by the BJP Wednesday as incidents of firing were being reported. In Bhatpara of North 24 Parganas district, firing took place, following which a local BJP supporter Rabi Singh,...

New Delhi: Senior IPS officer B Srinivasan was Tuesday appointed as the Director General (DG) of the National Security Guard (NSG), the country's counter-terrorism force, according to a Personnel Ministry order. Srinivasan is a 1992 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Bihar cadre....

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dedicated the foundation day of the Trinamool Congress’ student wing TMCP Wednesday to the memory of the woman doctor of the state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital who became the victim of a ghastly rape and murder...

Kolkata: Daily life was partially affected in West Bengal on Wednesday due to a 12-hour shutdown called by the BJP, protesting the police action against demonstrators during a march to the state secretariat. Rail and road blockades at several places in the state since the...

New Delhi: BRS leader K Kavitha, who was arrested in March this year, walked out of Tihar Jail here late Tuesday evening to a rousing welcome by her party members, hours after the Supreme Court granted her bail in corruption and money laundering cases linked...

Kolkata: Clashes broke out between police and protesters at different parts of Kolkata and its neighbouring Howrah on Tuesday, as the agitators tried to make their way through barricades to march towards the West Bengal secretariat ‘Nabanna'. The protesters were attempting to reach ‘Nabanna' to...

Kochi: The Malayalam film industry remained embroiled in controversy following the Justice Hema Committee Report's explosive revelations as AMMA president Mohanlal and its executive committee members stepped down Tuesday, amid a slew of sexual allegations against various members. In an unexpected turn of events, the...

New Delhi: In a pre-poll alliance, Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) and Chandra Shekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) Tuesday formed an alliance for the 90 Assembly seats in Haryana that will go to the polls October 1. Out of 90 seats, Dushyant Chautala’s JJP,...

Mumbai: A court in Mumbai has convicted a 22-year-old man for outraging the modesty of a woman by winking at her and holding her hand but refused to impose any sentence on him considering his age and the fact that he has no criminal antecedents....