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New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park, the first home to translocated cheetahs in India, continues to struggle with a high leopard population and a low prey base, while the twin challenges have delayed preparations at the Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary that will be the...

Kolkata: The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, Tuesday approached the Calcutta High Court on four student activists associated with the ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ march to the Bengal Secretariat reportedly going missing since Monday midnight. The single-judge Bench of Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj...

New Delhi: The Centre has reduced redressal time of public grievances, raised on a dedicated portal, to 21 days, from the existing 30 days. In an order mentioning revised guidelines, it has suggested appointment of dedicated officers to handle complaints besides emphasising "whole of the...

Kolkata: West Bengal Police said that Tuesday's march to state secretariat Nabanna is “illegal”, since the organisers were not permitted to hold the rally to press for their demand for the resignation of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the wake the alleged rape and murder...

Srinagar: Following hectic negotiations, the National Conference (NC) and the Congress Monday agreed on a seat-sharing formula for the Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, with the parties set to contest 51 and 32 seats respectively. The alliance partners also allotted one seat each to...

New Delhi: The BJP Monday distanced itself from its Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut's remarks on the farmers' agitation, and asked her to refrain from making such statements in the future. Actor-politician Ranaut earlier stoked a controversy by suggesting that the farmers' protest could have led...

Jammu/New Delhi: The BJP Monday named 16 candidates for the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, considerably pruning an initial list of 44 following protests by some party cadre who alleged that "parachute candidates" were favoured over dedicated workers. The original list,...

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday released the first list of 44 candidates for the three-phase Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, however, it was withdrawn soon after. Sources privy to the development said that the list is being redone and the party...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Monday announced the creation of five new districts in the Union Territory of Ladakh. In a post on 'X', Shah said in pursuit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to build a developed and prosperous Ladakh, the Union...

Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati Monday asserted that she was not retiring from active politics and alleged that the "casteist media" had been ‘propagating such fake news’. The 68-year-old Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president is a four-time former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. "To foil the...