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New Delhi: The Election Commission will hold a press conference to announce pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' list Monday evening. While the invite only mentions a press conference at 4.15 pm, officials said it is about intensive revision of electoral rolls. The poll...

New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will visit Brussels October 27 for talks with his EU counterpart to give political impetus to the proposed trade pact, as the deadline to conclude negotiations nears. During the two-day visit, Goyal will meet Executive Vice-President and...

New Delhi: India will host the Asia-Pacific region's aircraft accident investigators' meeting for the first time in the national capital from October 28-31. Around 90 aircraft accident investigators are expected to participate in the Asia Pacific Accident Investigation Group (APAC-AIG), an official release said Sunday....

Amaravati: With the threat of cyclone ‘Montha’ in the Bay of Bengal looming large, the Andhra Pradesh government has sent NDRF and SDRF teams to six coastal districts, appointed special officers for 19 districts and suspended all activities on beaches. According to Prakhar Jain, Managing...

Kurnool: Andhra Pradesh Police stated Saturday that the explosion of the bus's two 12 KV batteries was the primary cause of the devastating fire that killed 20 people, contributing more to the blaze than the motorcycle's fuel tank. The driver of the bus and the additional...

New Delhi: India's most celebrated astrophysicist Jayant Naralikar, who passed away in May, was Saturday selected for the Vigyan Ratna Puraskar, the country's top science award. Naralikar challenged the Big Bang theory, which states that the universe was created in a single moment. He, along...

New Delhi: A LocalCircles survey revealed Thursday that three out of four households in Delhi-NCR are experiencing health effects from toxic air, with residents reporting symptoms like sore throat, cough, burning eyes, headaches and sleep disturbances. An analysis of CPCB data showed that post-Diwali, PM 2.5...

Mumbai:  Veteran actor Satish Shah, who is known for his work in films like Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, Main Hoon Na, Om Shanti Om and others, passed away Saturday in Mumbai. The actor was 74 years old. Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit took to...

Kurnool: The explosion of a consignment of 234 smartphones in the Hyderabad-Bengaluru bus that caught fire in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool district, killing 19 passengers, may have aggravated the blaze, indicated the preliminary investigation by the Andhra Pradesh Police. The consignment of smartphones worth Rs 46...

Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh): The driver of the ill-fated Bengaluru-bound bus which caught fire and killed 20 people Friday in Kurnool, had escaped the inferno by jumping out through the passenger door and failed to gauge the situation, a police official said Saturday. Currently, both the...