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Patna/Kolkata: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor was Tuesday served a notice over his name being reportedly registered as a voter in his home state Bihar, as well as adjoining West Bengal. However, the former political strategist stuck to his guns, asserting that the onus...

Bhubaneswar: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) Tuesday confirmed that the landfall process of Severe Cyclonic Storm Montha has begun along the Andhra Pradesh coast between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam, near Kakinada. The storm, classified as a Severe Cyclonic Storm, is packing sustained winds of 90 to...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that the offence of threatening a witness to give false evidence under Section 195A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) is cognisable, and police can register an FIR without requiring a court’s complaint. A bench of Justices Sanjay...

Patna: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led Mahagathbandhan Tuesday released its manifesto for the Bihar Assembly elections. The highlight of the manifesto is 'Bihar Ka Tejaswi Pran' (Tejashwi's pledge for Bihar) as it seeks to tell electors that the young and dynamic RJD leader will be...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will take a sortie in a Rafale fighter jet at the Ambala Air Force Station October 29 during her visit to Haryana. Notably, the President who is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces also took a sortie in a...

New Delhi: India and Russia have firmed up a joint collaboration to produce a twin-engine narrow-body passenger aircraft for short-haul flights in line with growing strategic ties between the two countries. State-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) reached an agreement with Russia's Public Joint...

New Delhi: The Delhi government, in collaboration with IIT-Kanpur, conducted the first cloud-seeding trial in parts of Delhi Tuesday, with more such exercises planned over the next few days, Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said. According to officials, the aircraft took off from Kanpur for...

Visakhapatnam: Great danger signal number 10 was hoisted at Kakinada Port Tuesday as the severe cyclone 'Montha' in the Bay of Bengal was hurtling towards the Andhra Pradesh coast. With the cyclone nearing the coast, the Cyclone Warning Centre, Visakhapatnam, directed authorities to replace danger...

Kolkata: Around 2 crore existing voters in West Bengal will have to provide any one of the documents, as specified by the Election Commission of India (ECI) during the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise, for getting their names retrained in the voters’ list, an estimate...

Leh: Authorities in Ladakh have withdrawn the restrictions imposed under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNNS), which bans assembly of five or more persons, officials said Tuesday. The deputy commissioners of Leh and Kargil districts Monday separately ordered the lifting of the...