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Kolkata: Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha member, has sought time to appear before the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the signature-mismatch case. An insider of the party said that Banerjee has sent a letter to the CID seeking...

New Delhi: The Congress Monday expressed concern over the fire that broke out on the second floor of the Ministry of Education office in central Delhi, and said the development is very fishy. A fire broke out on the second floor of the Ministry of...

New Delhi: Prices of commercial LPG - the one used in hotels and restaurants - were Monday hiked by Rs 42 per 19-kg cylinder but there was no change in the rates of cooking gas used in household kitchens. The price of commercial LPG was...

New Delhi: Gross GST collections rose 3.2 per cent to over Rs 1.94 lakh crore in May on improved supplies of goods and services, and continued expansion of collection from imports, government data showed Monday. Gross GST collection stood at Rs 1.88 lakh crore in...

Kolkata: The 35 members of the extended cabinet in West Bengal will take the oath as ministers at Lok Bhavan in Kolkata at 11 am Monday. Governor R.N. Ravi will administer the oath. Last week, the Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari and the Bharatiya Janata Party...

New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has announced the results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2026, bringing an end to days of anticipation for engineering aspirants across the country. Shubham Kumar from the IIT Delhi zone emerged as the overall...

Jaipur: Eight people were killed and 24 injured after a bus rammed into a truck and caught fire on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan's Dausa district early Wednesday, police said. The accident occurred near Dhanawda in the Kolwa police station area. Dausa SP Piyush Dixit...

New Delhi: The rescheduled CUET-UG 2026 was conducted smoothly Sunday across hundreds of examination centres after certain tests scheduled for May 28 were postponed due to Eid al-Adha, an NTA source said. "The examination was conducted smoothly," the source told media. The National Testing Agency...

Kolkata: TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee Sunday alleged that he suffered head injuries after being mobbed by BJP workers in front of a police station in West Bengal's Hooghly district. The incident occurred when he visited the police station to submit a memorandum against the arrest...

New Delhi: Chief Minister Rekha Gupta Sunday visited the building collapse site in South Delhi's Saket that claimed six lives, and assured strict action against unauthorised constructions and the officers responsible for it. The incident occurred on Saturday evening on Western Marg in the Saidulajab...