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New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Tuesday announced a diaper donation drive as part of its ongoing campaign seeking the resignation of the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged NEET-UG paper leak. The party, which has been holding a sit-in protest at Delhi's...

New Delh: The Congress Tuesday cited a media report which claimed that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav's family bought acres of land in Ujjain in zones benefiting from infrastructure projects, and said the engine of plunder is running at full speed under the BJP's...

New Delhi: National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval Tuesday said that India welcomed the memorandum of understanding reached between Iran and the US and viewed the development with cautious optimism and hoped it would contribute positively to regional and global stability. Addressing the 16th BRICS...

New Delhi: Amid a rebellion by around 20 MPs and similar moves by some MLAs in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress has sent a fresh list of its office bearers and national working committee members to the Election Commission (EC), asserting that Mamata Banerjee continues...

Lucknow (UP): The two-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to probe the fire at a commercial building in Lucknow's Aliganj area, where at least 15 lives were lost, reached the spot Tuesday morning and began its investigation into the incident that claimed several lives, officials...

New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer Tuesday began bilateral talks here on issues related to the first phase of the bilateral trade agreement. Greer is in New Delhi on an official visit for the trade pact talks,...

Chennai/Bhubaneswar: The death toll in the ammonia gas leak at a private seafood processing and export facility in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district increased to nine Tuesday, the government said. The health department, in its release, said that all the deceased are women. Seven of them...

New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs George Kurian has resigned from the council of ministers after his Rajya Sabha term came to an end. The BJP had decided not to renominate him in the recent Rajya Sabha polls. President Droupadi Murmu has...

New Delhi: Google restored instant messaging app Telegram Tuesday morning as a temporary ban imposed by the government ended at midnight of June 22. The platform was accessible to some existing users before Google restored it. The app continued to remain delisted on Apple's Appstore...

Lucknow: The three-storey commercial building where a tragic fire claimed 15 lives was issued a demolition order in 2016 over unauthorised construction, but the order was revoked less than two months later, the UP government has said in a statement. The building, located in Sector...