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New Delhi/ Keonjhar: The Supreme Court Tuesday sought the Odisha government's response on a plea for premature release of a "repenting" Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, who is serving life sentence for the ghastly killing of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor...

Jammu: An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in a remote forest area in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district Tuesday, officials said. The gunfight started when security forces launched a search and cordon operation in Ghadi Bhagwah forest following information about the presence...

Moscow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was Tuesday officially conferred the 'Order of St Andrew the Apostle' award by Russian President Vladimir Putin for his contribution to fostering bilateral ties between the two countries. In a special ceremony in St. Andrew Hall in the Kremlin, President...

New Delhi: The CBI has arrested two more persons, including a candidate, from Patna in connection with the alleged leakage of NEET-UG paper, taking the total number of arrests by the agency to 11, officials said Tuesday. NEET-UG aspirant Sunny who hails from Nalanda and...

Mumbai: Mumbai Police Tuesday arrested Mihir Shah, two days after the 24-year-old allegedly rammed his BMW car into a two-wheeler, killing a woman and leaving her husband injured. Mihir, whose father is a leader of the ruling Shiv Sena, had fled after the fatal crash....

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government Tuesday suspended the local SDM, a circle officer and four others on the basis of the SIT report on the Hathras stampede that did not rule out a ‘big conspiracy’ behind the incident. The SIT report also flagged lapses on...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday said that a date of hearing has been accorded to a PIL seeking a probe into the Hathras stampede that left 121 dead. "I have ordered listing of the plea yesterday itself," Chief Justice  DY Chandrachud said when PIL...

Jammu: President Droupadi Murmu Tuesday condemned the Kathua terror attack in which five Indian Army soldiers were killed and as many were injured Monday. The President, who is the supreme commander of the defence forces, in her post on X she said, “The attack on...

New Delhi: The killing of five Army personnel in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district will not go unavenged and India will defeat the evil forces behind it, Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane said Tuesday. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressed deep anguish over...

Jammu: A massive joint search operation was launched Tuesday to track down terrorists responsible for the deadly attack on an army patrol party in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district that left five personnel dead, officials said. They said the ground search teams are being supported...