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New Delhi: A high-level global wildlife committee under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has recommended that India temporarily pause the import of wild animals until the country strengthens its permit and compliance processes governing such transfers....

Imphal: Security forces have recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition in Manipur while also arresting two inter-state drug peddlers and seizing 2 kg brown sugar from their possession during the past 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday. An official said that the security...

New Delhi: Dismissing Rahul Gandhi's claims of vote theft in the Haryana Assembly polls as "false and baseless", the ruling BJP Wednesday accused the Congress leader of raising questions on the Election Commission (EC) to hide his failures and defame India's democracy. Union minister Kiren...

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi's vote manipulation charge is unfounded as no appeals were filed against the electoral rolls in Haryana, nor was any multiple voting flagged when it happened, Election Commission officials said Wednesday. The poll body officials were reacting to Gandhi's claim that 25...

Deoghar: Panic gripped the Belabagan Kalibari area of Deoghar Wednesday afternoon after a young couple was found dead inside their rented accommodation under mysterious circumstances. The deceased have been identified as Ravi Sharma, 30, and his wife Lovely Sharma, 24, who had been married for...

Chennai: Actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay Wednesday announced that the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections would be a “straight fight” between his party and the ruling DMK. Declaring himself the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate, Vijay expressed firm confidence that the TVK had...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has agreed to examine whether a law banning married couples facing secondary infertility from using surrogacy to have a second child amounts to a restriction by the State on the reproductive choices of citizens. An intending couple having any surviving...

New Delhi: NASA and ISRO are all set to declare their first-ever jointly developed NISAR satellite operational on Friday, ISRO chairman V Narayanan said there Wednesday. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), said to be the most expensive Earth observation satellite ever built, has the...

New Delhi: Air India ferried 228 passengers and 17 crew members who were stranded in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar to Delhi Wednesday morning. The passengers were stranded in the Mongolian capital after their San Francisco-Delhi flight was diverted to the Mongolian capital Monday due to...

Kolkata: The Border Security Force and West Bengal Police have reached a mutual settlement following Tuesday night's clash between their personnel in Nadia district's Chapra area over custody of seized Phensedyl, a banned cough syrup. On one hand, the ​​Krishnanagar Police District, under whose jurisdiction the...