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Little Rock: A shooter who opened fire Friday at a grocery store in Arkansas left the store and parked cars riddled with bullet holes as bystanders ducked for cover both indoors and in the parking lot, killing three people and wounding 10 others, authorities said....

New Delhi: The Centre Friday operationalised a stringent law that aims to curb malpractices and irregularities in competitive examinations and entails provisions for a maximum jail term of 10 years and a fine of up to Rs 1 crore for offenders. Nearly four months after...

Amaravati: YSR Congress Party’s under-construction central office in Tadepalli in Guntur district was demolished by municipal authorities in the early hours of Saturday over alleged illegal construction. Authorities of Mangalagiri-Tadepalli Municipal Corporation (MTMC) began demolition around 5:30 a.m. using excavators and bulldozers. The Capital Region...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole Friday alleged corruption in the construction of the Atul Setu sea bridge connecting south Mumbai to Navi Mumbai, saying that cracks have appeared on it within months of inauguration, posing a threat to people's lives. Patole, who inspected the...

New Delhi: India Friday said the issue of its nationals serving with the Russian Army remains a matter of "utmost concern" and demanded action from Moscow over it. Last week, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said two more Indian nationals serving with the Russian...

Mumbai: Stubborn food prices are responsible for the slow pace of decline in overall retail inflation, argued Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das while voting for a status quo in the policy rates during the MPC meeting earlier this month, according to the...

New Delhi: Amid a raging row over irregularities in exams, the National Testing Agency Friday announced the postponement of the June edition of the Joint Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test, citing unavoidable circumstances and logistic issues. The...

Hyderabad: The Ministry of Coal Friday put up 67 coal mines for auction across eight states, including Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal and Telangana. Union Minister of Coal and Mines, G. Kishan Reddy, launched the 10th tranche of commercial coal mine...

New Delhi: It is strange police were restrained by a court from arresting former Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa, while Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren -- both arrested in separate cases -- were being treated like any "Tom, Dick...

New Delhi: Union Minister of Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan Friday assured the states that the Centre is committed to procure 100 per cent of Tur, Urad and Masur produced by farmers at the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) to ensure crop diversification and achieve self-sufficiency in...