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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday ordered a CBI probe into the Karur stampede in which 41 people were killed. A bench comprising Justices J K Maheshwari and N V Anjaria appointed former apex court judge, Ajay Rastogi, as the head of the committee which...

Kolkata/Balasore: The police have nabbed another person in connection with the gang-rape of a second-year medical student from Odisha in West Bengal's Durgapur, taking the total number of arrests to four. The police said Monday that the arrest was made last night. The arrested person...

New Delhi/Nuapada: The Election Commission of India (ECI) Monday issued notifications for the by-elections to five Assembly constituencies across the country. The polling is scheduled for November 11, and the counting of votes is to be held November 14. According to the notification, the by-election...

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, speaking about the Durgapur gang-rape case Monday, said that there isn't any society or nation where such cases do not happen. This statement came a day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee advised that girls should refrain...

Chennai: ED Monday raided premises linked to Sresan Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Coldrif cough syrup linked to the deaths of children in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, and top officials of the Tamil Nadu FDA as part of a money laundering investigation, official sources said. At...

Kolkata: Three persons were injured in West Bengal's Bardhaman railway station Sunday after a woman lost her balance on a foot overbridge and fell, bringing down two others with her, an Eastern Railway official said. All three persons were taken to a government hospital for...

New Delhi: Canada's Foreign Minister Anita Anand arrived in the national capital Sunday, a day before talks with her Indian counterpart S Jaishankar. The discussions are expected to focus on setting up a framework for bilateral "strategic" cooperation in areas of trade, energy and security....

Durgapur: A subdivisional court here Sunday remanded to 10-day police custody the three men arrested for their alleged involvement in the “gangrape” of a student of a private medical college in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district. The charges pressed against the accused persons include gangrape...

New Delhi: Aviation safety regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has directed Air India to reinspect the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) system -- an emergency power source -- on all Boeing 787 aircraft where the Power Conditioning Module (PCM) was recently replaced. The...

New Delhi: Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, in charge of BJP’s campaign in the state, Sunday announced the NDA’s seat-sharing arrangement. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) will each contest 101 seats, while the Chirag Paswan-led Lok...