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New Delhi: The AAP was leading in Punjab's Ludhiana West and in Gujarat's Visavadar, while the Congress-led UDF surged ahead of its rivals in Kerala's Nilambur and the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal's Kaliganj Monday, according to latest trends available for bypolls in four states....

New Delhi: US President Donald Trump's decision to unleash American air power on Iran makes a "mockery" of his own calls for the continuation of talks with Iran, the Congress said Monday and slammed the Modi government for neither criticising nor condemning the US bombing...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Odisha government is seeking to ease environmental restrictions to promote tourism inside and around some of its most ecologically sensitive regions, including national parks, tiger reserves, coastal zones and Ramsar wetlands, according to government records. Legal and conservation experts say this move undermines...

Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party (SP) Monday expelled three of its sitting MLAs, Abhay Singh (Gosaiganj), Rakesh Pratap Singh (Gauriganj), and Manoj Kumar Pandey (Unchahar), for indulging in what it described as anti-party activities and ideological deviation. The decision was announced through an official statement on...

New Delhi: India has dismissed as "fake" claims by certain social media handles that the US fighter jets used Indian airspace to launch strikes against Iran. The US bombed three nuclear sites in Iran early Sunday, with President Donald Trump warning of additional strikes if...

New Delhi: The counting of votes is underway for the by-elections to five Assembly seats in four states, Gujarat, Punjab, Kerala and Bengal. The bypolls were held June 19 for two Assembly seats in Gujarat, Visavadar and Kadi; and one each in Punjab (Ludhiana West),...

New Delhi: India, the world's third-largest oil importer and fourth-biggest gas buyer, has enough energy supplies to meet requirements for several weeks and continues to receive supplies from several routes, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said amid escalating tensions in the globe's biggest energy supply...

New York/Washington: The US has issued an advisory for its citizens travelling to India, urging “increased caution” due to crime and rape, and advising them not to travel to certain parts of central and eastern parts of the country due to terrorism. The travel advisory...

New Delhi: Regulator DGCA has put in place a special audit framework for a "360-degree" evaluation of the country's aviation ecosystem and transcend the current practice of siloed assessment. The move comes a week after the fatal crash of Air India's Ahmedabad-London Gatwick aircraft soon...

New Delhi: Air India Sunday said it will temporarily reduce 118 weekly flights operated with narrow-body planes on 19 routes as well as suspend services on three routes. The temporary cuts in services account for about 5 per cent of the airline's overall narrow-body operations...