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New Delhi: Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong will arrive in New Delhi Monday to participate in the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and hold bilateral talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, amid growing focus on regional security and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. In an official...

New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices were raised by Rs 2.61-2.71 per litre Monday, marking the fourth increase in less than two weeks as state-owned fuel retailers continued to pass on rising international oil prices to consumers. With the latest revision, cumulative increases in petrol...

Srinagar: Sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Monday carried out raids at multiple places across Kashmir in connection with the ongoing terror-related investigation. Official sources said the NIA carried out raids simultaneously in several areas of Srinagar and other districts of the Valley as...

Guwahati: The Assam government Monday tabled a Bill on the Uniform Civil Code, seeking to ban polygamy and make registration of live-in relationships compulsory. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Atul Bora tabled 'The Uniform Civil Code, Assam, 2026 Bill' in the assembly on behalf of Chief Minister...

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Sunday once again extended the deadline for students seeking scanned copies of their evaluated answer books for Class 12 board examinations, with the last date now revised to May 25 midnight. The CBSE had earlier extended...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Sunday flagged India's concerns with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the Trump administration's changes to visa and immigration policies, saying legal mobility should not be adversely impacted by the new approach. Rubio acknowledged that there could...

Kolkata: The BJP Sunday swept the repoll to Bengal's Falta Assembly seat with a victory margin of more than one lakh votes in the constituency long seen as a citadel of the TMC, whose nominee slipped to fourth place and forfeited his deposit. Polling 1,49,666...

Bhopal: Former model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma, a Noida woman who died at her marital home in Bhopal May 12 due to alleged dowry harassment, was cremated Sunday after a team of doctors from AIIMS Delhi completed the second postmortem of her body. Emotional scenes unfolded at...

New Delhi: India has moved a significant step closer towards long-term energy self-sufficiency after its indigenously developed 500 MW Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu achieved criticality -- a stage at which a nuclear reactor attains a controlled and self-sustaining chain...

New Delhi:  The Congress Sunday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's remarks that India has committed to purchasing USD 500 billion worth of American goods over the next five years, alleging that the compromised PM was going the extra...