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New Delhi: Amid heavy security arrangements, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) announced Saturday that it has received permission to hold a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. The Saturday protest has been organised by the CJP, a youth-led online movement that has been demanding accountability...

Kolkata: Barely days after losing control of its legislature party in the West Bengal Assembly, the TMC is now staring at an even bigger political nightmare -- the possibility of the rebellion spreading to its parliamentary ranks. What began as a revolt by dissident MLAs...

New Delhi: As many as 1,076 Indian nationals have been deported from the US this year so far, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday, noting that that the two sides are committed to act against illegal migration. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said a...

New Delhi: India Friday launched E85 fuel, a high-ethanol blend designed for flex-fuel vehicles, at Rs 20 a litre discount to normal petrol. The fuel will initially be available at select petrol pumps and can be used only in vehicles with flex fuel engines. Union...

Hingoli: Ahead of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)'s proposed protest in Delhi June 6, party founder Abhijeet Dipke's friends and acquaintances here feel the agitation called by him is for a serious cause and it should not go off track. They also want the government...

Beijing: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Friday held talks with his Myanmar counterpart Tin Maung Swe in Beijing, days after Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing visited India on his first tour abroad after his election, garnering global headlines. Wang and Tin discussed scaling up bilateral...

Patna: Faisal Khan, popularly known as 'Khan Sir', has been named in an FIR in connection with vandalism at his coaching centre in Bihar's Patna, police said Friday. A group of 15-20 people had allegedly vandalised the Khan Global Studies Institute and pelted stones on...

St Petersburg: Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered New Delhi Russia's fifth-generation stealth aircraft Sukhoi Su-57 and even suggested that the combat jet could even be jointly produced in India in line with the strong strategic partnership between the two countries. For decades, Russia has...

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs Friday said 13 foreign nationals are among those who died in a hotel fire in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar, and the ministry is in touch with the embassies of their countries, extending help with paperwork and medical assistance....

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday said the Modi government's argument that the Great Nicobar Island Project is about defence and a transshipment port is a "lie", and alleged that it is actually about benefitting one businessman so that he can build hotels and...