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Kolkata: Popular Bengali film actress Rituparna Sengupta Wednesday joined the ED probe in the ration distribution case. She arrived at the ED office at around 1 p.m. However, her accountant reached the central agency office over an hour before her arrival with files. On May...

New Delhi: The average rainfall for the country as a whole is most likely to be below normal in June as the progress of the monsoon has slowed, according to an India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast Wednesday. While normal to above normal rainfall is expected...

New Delhi: The Delhi Police has intensified its investigation into the Rajouri Garden food joint murder case but is yet to identify the victim, even as a foreign-based gangster purportedly took responsibility for the killing through a social media post. A man in his early...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising the issue of denial of political clearance to state Health Minister Veena George to travel to Kuwait to coordinate relief efforts following the fire incident in the Gulf nation. The CM...

Bengaluru: A Bengaluru couple was shocked when they noticed a snake in their Amazon package. The snake, suspected to be a spectacled cobra, was stuck in the adhesive tape used for the packaging, said the couple, who had ordered an Xbox controller from the online...

New Delhi: India has been ranked 63rd on a global Energy Transition Index released Wednesday by the World Economic Forum, which said the country has shown significant improvement across energy equity, security and sustainability. European nations dominated the top ranks with Sweden topping the index,...

Rajgir: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday inaugurated the new campus of Nalanda University at Rajgir in Bihar. Governor Rajendra V Arlekar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar were also present on the occasion. Before inaugurating the new campus, Modi visited the...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised full support for Russia's war in Ukraine as he began a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday. Putin's visit to Pyongyang comes amid growing concerns about an arms arrangement in which North Korea provides Russia with...

Mumbai: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das expects the strong growth momentum of the last financial year to continue into the April-June quarter of the current financial year, bolstered by strong fundamentals of the economy. “We are quite sanguine that the projection we have given for the...

Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday released Rs 20,000 crore as part of the income support scheme for more than 9.26 crore farmers. Modi released the amount during the PM Kisan Samman Sammelan in Varanasi. It was his first visit to his Lok Sabha constituency...