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New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha's ongoing debate on election reforms was briefly interrupted on Thursday, with Union Minister Kiren Rijiju announcing that the remaining discussion would be taken up Monday at 1 pm. The decision was made in view of a scheduled prayer meet in...

Itanagar: The Indian Army Thursday launched a large-scale search and rescue operation in the high-altitude Chaglagam region of Arunachal Pradesh after a truck carrying 22 workers from Tinsukia fell off a cliff along the remote Hayuliang–Chaglagam road, officials said. The accident, believed to have occurred...

Imphal: President Droupadi Murmu arrived in Imphal Thursday afternoon on her maiden two-day tour of the state, which has been under President's Rule since February 13, following prolonged ethnic violence. Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla received President Murmu at Imphal's Bir Tikendrajit Airport. The President...

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed Parliament on Thursday that nearly 9 lakh Indians renounced their citizenship in the past five years, continuing a trend of high numbers of expatriates opting for foreign nationalities. Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha,...

New Delhi: To curb misuse and improve fairness, Aadhaar-based OTP verification for online Tatkal ticket booking is now operational in 322 trains, and due to this, the confirmed Tatkal ticket availability time has increased by about 65 per cent in these trains, the Parliament was...

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to launch the 6.5-tonne BlueBird-6 satellite of the US December 15. BlueBird 6 communications satellite, developed by the US-based AST SpaceMobile, will be launched on board India’s most powerful rocket LVM3. It is one of...

New Delhi: The government Thursday told Parliament that global air quality rankings cited by various organisations are not conducted by any official authority and that the World Health Organisation's (WHO) air quality guidelines serve only as advisory values, not binding standards. Responding to a question...

New Delhi: No significant lapses were observed during the DGCA’s recent surveillance audit at major airports, and all observations were categorised as Level II and communicated to the aerodrome operators concerned and subsequently closed after the completion of action by them, the Parliament was informed...

New Delhi: IndiGo, which has been facing significant operational disruptions, Thursday announced that it will offer travel vouchers worth Rs 10,000 to each passenger whose flights were cancelled or delayed for long during December 3-5. The compensation would be in addition to the amount that...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate Thursday conducted multi-state searches as part of a terror financing-linked money laundering investigation against a "highly radicalised" ISIS module, officials said. The raids were launched early morning at 40 locations, including in the Padgha-Borivali area of Thane in Maharashtra (near...