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Wayanad: The death toll in the Wayanad landslide disaster Friday reached 297, said officials, adding that 206 people continue to be missing. The rescue operations continued on the fourth day of the state’s worst-ever natural calamity. More than one thousand-member rescue team drawn from various...

New Delhi: India and Vietnam Thursday adopted an action plan to expand their strategic partnership, agreed to boost defence ties and vowed to redouble efforts to ensure peace and security in South China in the face of Beijing's increasing military muscle-flexing. The situation in South...

Dehradun: Fourteen people died and 10 more were injured in heavy overnight rains that triggered flooding and a house collapse as several rivers swelled in Uttarakhand, officials said here on Thursday. They said that the Kedarnath Yatra was suspended amid the inclement weather conditions as...

New Delhi: Eight Indians working in the Russian armed forces have died and 12 others already left the military, the government said in the Rajya Sabha Thursday. In reply to a question, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh said another 63 individuals...

New Delhi: Opposition leaders Thursday took swipe at the Modi government over water leakage in a lobby of the new Parliament building and hailed the ‘sturdy’ old Parliament building. Congress Lok Sabha MP Manickam Tagore posted on X a video of water leaking from the...

Mumbai: A special POCSO court in Mumbai has sentenced a 19-year-old man to two years rigorous imprisonment for holding the hand of a minor girl and saying 'I love you'. The special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) court judge, Ashwini Lokhande, held...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday sounded a word of caution to the states, saying they can make sub-classifications of Scheduled Castes for granting quota inside the reserved category but it has to be on the basis of ‘quantifiable and demonstrable data’ of backwardness and...

Shimla/Mandi: Four people were killed and about 50 missing following several incidents of cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh where rains washed away many houses, bridges and roads, officials said Thursday. The state emergency operation centre said the cloudbursts took place in Nirmand, Sainj and Malana areas...

Chateauroux (France): Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale clinched the first-ever Olympic bronze in 50m rifle 3 positions event, taking the country's overall tally to three at the ongoing Paris Games here Thursday. Kusale shot an aggregate of 451.4 in the eight-shooter final to finish third after...

New Delhi: Seven people died and three were injured due to heavy rainfall in Delhi-NCR Wednesday evening. Heavy rain led to waterlogging in most areas of Delhi, Noida, Gurugram and Faridabad, causing inconvenience to citizens. In Delhi, one person died, and two were injured after...