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New Delhi/Jharsuguda: The CBI has booked the country's leading aluminium producer Hindalco of the Aditya Birla Group for alleged corruption in getting environmental clearances for coal mining between 2011 and 2013, officials said Tuesday. The agency has also named T Chandini, the then director in...

Shimla: Actor-turned-politician, Kangana Ranaut Tuesday stressed on the need to spread 'Sanatan Dharma' to avoid a Bangladesh-like situation in India. The BJP’s Mandi MP visited flood-hit areas in Himachal Pradesh Tuesday and made the comment while speaking to the media. Kangana said, "We should learn...

New Delhi: Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina's travel plans have hit a roadblock due to certain ‘uncertainties’ and she is unlikely to move out of India for the next couple of days, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. Hasina, who landed at the...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Tuesday told an all-party meeting that India has assured help to former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who arrived here Monday evening, and given her time to decide the future course of action, sources said. Briefing political party...

Kolkata: The Border Security Force (BSF) has been put on high alert along the India-Bangladesh international borders in West Bengal given the crisis in the neighbouring country. The newly-appointed Director General (DG) of BSF, Daljit Singh Chaudhury, who had already reached Kolkata Monday, has reviewed...

New Delhi: INDIA bloc parties staged a protest in Parliament premises Tuesday to press for the rollback of 18 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) on life and health insurance premiums. MPs from various parties such as TMC, Congress, AAP and NCP (SC), among...

Wayanad: The rescue operations in landslide-affected four villages of Kerala's Wayanad entered the eighth day Tuesday with the death toll reaching 402 and around 170 still missing. The over 1,200-strong rescue team comprising personnel from all the Defence forces, NDRF, SDRF, police, fire services and...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Tuesday briefed an all-party meeting about the ongoing situation in Bangladesh, and appreciated the unanimous support by all parties. In a post on X, he also shared photographs of the meeting at Parliament House. "Briefed an All-Party meeting...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday convened a critical meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg in response to the unrest in Bangladesh. The meeting was attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar,...

New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned Monday following unprecedented anti-government protests, landed at the Hindon airbase near Ghaziabad on her way to London, diplomatic sources said. Hasina arrived in India in a C-130J military transport aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force, they...