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Wayanad: Rescue operations entered the seventh day Monday when the toll in Kerala’s worst natural calamity touched 387, while 180 people still missing after the massive landslides and floods in Wayanad last week. The over 1,500-strong rescue team comprising personnel from all three defence forces,...

New Delhi: The Parliament's Budget Session resumes Monday with several key bills on the agenda, following a week of intense debates between opposition and ruling parties who are likely to again spar over several issues. In the Lok Sabha, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will...

Berhampur: A sniffer dog ‘Storm’ along with a 5- member police team of Berhampur left for landslidehit Wayanad in Kerala Sunday morning to join the search and rescue operation in landslidehit Chooralmala and Mundakkai. According to sources, the K9 squad proceeded to Kerala on the...

New Delhi: The Election Commission Sunday rejected the analysis by a citizens' platform about unusually big difference between voter turnout figures declared initially and the final figures in the Lok Sabha elections, and said a "false campaign" is being run to discredit the polls. The...

Hyderabad: Amid media reports that the Centre is likely to introduce a bill to curb the "unfettered" powers of waqf boards, AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi Sunday alleged that the NDA government wants to take away the autonomy of the waqf board. BJP has been against...

New Delhi: Chinese Premier Li Qiang has sent a message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveying condolences to the families of the deceased in the landslides at Wayanad in Kerala. "On August 3, Premier Li Qiang sent a message of condolence to PM Modi on...

Rudraprayag: Over 370 people, including devotees, stranded on the rain-ravaged trek route to Kedarnath, have been evacuated and sent to Lincholi to be airlifted as the rescue operation entered its fourth day Sunday. So far, more than 10,000 people have been rescued from Kedarnath, Bhimbali...

New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has put out the definition of "memorable" to hit back at those criticising him for using the word in a social media post on the Wayanad landslide relief works he participated in. It started with Tharoor sharing on X...

Jaipur: Nearly a year after a 20-year-old pregnant woman was stripped and paraded naked in Rajasthan, a district court has sentenced 14 men, including her husband, to seven-year imprisonment while noting that it was a "heinous crime" similar to the one committed in Manipur. Chief...

Thiruvananthapuram: The BJP Sunday responded to demands from various quarters, including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, to declare the devastating Wayanad landslides a national disaster, saying that such a concept doesn't exist under Central government guidelines, a policy unchanged since the UPA government's tenure. Senior party...