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New Delhi: The 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' slogan reverberated on the International Space Station as Prime Minister Narendra Modi told astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla that his space travel marked the beginning of a new era and was the first step towards Mission Gaganyaan, India's own human...

New Delhi: India imposed restrictions on the import of jute and allied fibre products from Bangladesh in view of its "unfair trade" practices including circumvention of anti-dumping duty that harmed Indian farmers, people familiar with the matter said Saturday. The new restrictions will apply to...

New Delhi: Parag Jain, one of the brains behind the meticulous planning of 'Operation Sindoor', has been appointed as the new Chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), according to an official order issued here Saturday. The two-year tenure of Jain, an Indian Police...

Kolkata: The police Saturday arrested a security guard of the Kolkata law college where a first-year student was raped allegedly by three men including an alumnus earlier this week, an officer said. With this, the total number of arrests reached four in the crime that...

Bengaluru: The Forest and Police authorities have cracked the sensational case involving the death of a tigress and her four cubs in the Male Mahadeshwara Hills forest region and arrested two persons in connection with the incident Saturday. The arrested individuals have confessed to poisoning...

Kolkata: The police suspect that the law college student in Kolkata was gang raped since she turned down the marriage proposal of the main accused making him angry, an officer said Saturday. Police were also trying to find out whether the entire crime was pre-planned...

Digha (WB): An estimated three lakh devotees visited the new Jagannath temple in Digha on the day of Rath Yatra and the preceding day, a senior ISKCON monk said. International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Vice-President Radharaman Das also told PTI that 70,000-1 lakh people...

Patna: In a shocking incident, passengers of the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Duronto Express were looted near Gaya, Bihar, in the early hours of Friday. According to an official of the Gaya Government Railway Police (GRP), a group of unidentified robbers targeted at least five coaches of...

New Delhi: Several Opposition parties Friday denounced RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale's call to review the words 'socialist' and 'secular' in the Preamble, terming it a "deliberate assault" on the soul of the Constitution. The attack came a day after the RSS proposed reviewing the...

New Delhi: India Friday banned imports of certain jute products and woven fabrics from Bangladesh through all land routes amid strained relations between the two countries. However, imports are allowed only through Nhava Sheva seaport in Maharashtra, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said...