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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Thursday assured Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin of efforts to secure release of 34 Indian fishermen from the southern state who have been in Sri Lanka's custody. Jaishankar's assurance came following Stalin's requests to the external affairs...

New Delhi/Ahmedabad: The CBI Thursday made its first arrests in the NEET-UG paper leak case, taking two people in custody in Patna while three candidates in Gujarat who had allegedly solicited help to clear the exam recorded their statements with the probe agency, officials said....

New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi met Speaker Om Birla Thursday and voiced his displeasure over the reference to Emergency made by the chair, saying it was "clearly political" and could have been avoided. It was a courtesy call during...

Jammu: GoC Army’s Nagrota-based White Knights Corps, Lt General Navin Sachdeva Thursday reviewed operational preparedness in Jammu & Kashmir’s Doda district and also saw the arms and ammunition recovered from three slain terrorists in Gandoh area Wednesday. He complimented the troops for their professional conduct...

New Delhi: The Privileges Committee of the Rajya Sabha Thursday held 12 opposition MPs, including the AAP's Sanjay Singh, guilty of misconduct for disrupting House proceedings last August and cautioned them to desist from such behaviour in future. In the report tabled in the Upper...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday asked the National Testing Agency (NTA) to apprise it whether there is any time limit for raising grievances regarding the OMR sheets provided to the candidates who appeared in NEET-UG 2024. A vacation bench of Justices Manoj Misra and...

New Delhi: All citizens aged above 70 years will be provided free treatment under the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme, President Droupadi Murmu said Thursday. The opening of 25,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras in the country is also progressing at a fast pace, she said while...

New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is at the centre of controversy over alleged irregularities in competitive exams conducted by it. Amid the raging row over the recently conducted NEET-UG and UGC-NET, the agency saw a change of guards last week and a high-level...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu addressed the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament Thursday, her first in the third term of the Narendra Modi government and spoke on a host of issues, including Emergency and the safeguards of the Constitution, Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA),...

New Delhi: Opposition leaders Thursday dismissed the President's address to the joint sitting of Parliament as a ‘script given by the government’ that was ‘full of lies’ and also castigated the government over the repeated mention of the 1975 Emergency. They said there is an...