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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi heaped praise on wrestler Vinesh Phogat for her scintillating show at the Paris Olympics and becoming the first Indian woman grappler to reach the final. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met and greeted the Indian athletes and medal winners of...

Kolkata: Kolkata Police, so far, have arrested a total of 19 people in connection with the ransacking of the emergency department of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital here. According to a statement released by the city police Friday, of the 19 arrested people,...

New Delhi: The Resident Doctors' Associations (RDAs) across Delhi will hold a joint protest march Friday from 2 p.m. from the Nirman Bhavan in the national capital against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata at the R.G. Kar Medical College and...

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): India Friday, successfully orbited two satellites with its new rocket – Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV). On its third and final developmental flight, the SSLV-D3 put into orbit an earth observation satellite-08 (EOS-08) weighing about 175.5 kg, and SR-0 satellite belonging to...

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): ISRO Friday launched its third and final developmental flight, Small Satellite Launch Vehicle-D3, carrying Earth Observation Satellite EOS-08. The rocket lifted off majestically from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, situated about 135 km east of Chennai...

New Delhi: The Election Commission will announce the schedule for assembly elections Friday afternoon. An EC invite to the media for a press conference around 3 pm did not mention the states for which the election schedule would be announced. The terms of the legislative...

New Delhi: Emphasising the importance of freedom and liberty, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud Thursday noted that the recent events in neighbouring Bangladesh remind the value of these rights. Speaking after hoisting the national flag in the Supreme Court premises here, Chandrachud said Independence Day reminds...

Moscow/Paris: Leaders from across the world, including French President Emmanuel Macron, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, greeted India's leadership and the people of the country as it celebrated its 78th Independence Day Thursday. While most of the leaders from...

Kolkata: CBI officers Thursday visited the residence of the doctor who was raped and murdered at a Kolkata hospital, and spoke to her parents as a part of their investigation, an official said. The investigators took note of the time they received the call from...

Kolkata: The vandalism at the emergency department of the state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, where a woman doctor was brutally raped and murdered, has caused worry to the CBI officials, said sources here. The probe team of the central agency apprehends...