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Pune: In an incident of road rage, a woman riding a two-wheeler with two children was punched in the face by a motorist in Pune city after she advised him to drive properly, police said Sunday. A case has been registered against the 57-year-old man...

New Delhi: The Congress Sunday sought the Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker's position for the opposition in the all-party meeting convened by the government ahead of Parliament session, and raised the issue of paper leaks, including of the prestigious NEET, sources said. They said party leader...

New Delhi: At least three devotees were killed and six others injured in Uttarakhand's Kedarnath in a landslide triggered by rain Sunday, officials said. The landslide occurred between Gaurikund and Chirbasa in Kedarnath. After receiving the information about the incident, the Gaurikund police along with...

New Delhi: An all-party meeting convened by the government ahead of Parliament's Monsoon Session began Sunday morning with leaders from various political parties, including BJP president JP Nadda, Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi and Union minister and LJP (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan attending it. Defence...

Muzaffarnagar: For the past seven years, Brijesh Pal, a daily wager, worked at a roadside dhaba in Khatauli area of Muzaffarnagar during the two months of Shravan to help his Muslim owner manage the heavy footfall of customers, mainly the Kanwariyas. He would get Rs...

New Delhi: No NEET-UG candidate has scored above 682 in the revised results for a centre in Haryana that was under the scanner after six aspirants who took the medical entrance exam there May 5 got 720 out of 720. The scores were revised after...

New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India Saturday sought Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s support in raising issues of press freedom and right to information in Parliament and claimed the government has taken several legislative steps to regulate and control the media. In a letter to...

New Delhi: The CBI Saturday arrested one of the masterminds, a B.Tech graduate from NIT-Jamshedpur, in the NEET-UG paper leak case and two MBBS students who allegedly acted as "solvers", officials said. With the fresh arrests, the total number of people held so far by...

New Delhi: In India, 11.9 lakh excess deaths occurred in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, 17 per cent higher compared to 2019, an international study has found. The estimate is about eight times higher than the official COVID-19 deaths in India, and 1.5 times the...

Kolkata: A Pakistani citizen was nabbed by the jawans of the 41st battalion of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), late Friday night when he illegally crossed over to the Indian territory through the Indo-Nepal international border in Darjeeling district in the northern sector of West Bengal....