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Puducherry: Actor-politician Vijay Tuesday said that he will always stand with the people of Puducherry and his party will make strides in the union territory's politics. “I will always stand with the people of Puducherry, and in the coming Assembly elections, the flag of our...

New Delhi: The Goa Police has approached the CBI for issuance of an Interpol Blue Notice against Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the main accused and owners of the Goa nightclub where a massive blaze claimed 25 lives, after they fled the country, officials said Tuesday....

Chhatarpur: In a shocking incident, at least three employees of a resort in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh died due to food poisoning after taking a meal. Soon after having the meal, they complained of stomachache and uneasiness, sources said. While five others, who were...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday took serious note of BLOs and other officials engaged in SIR 2.0 being "threatened" in West Bengal and other states, and asked the Election Commission to bring such instances to its notice or "it will cause anarchy". A bench...

Mumbai: Aviation regulator DGCA has ordered IndiGo to cut its planned flights by 5 per cent on high-capacity routes during winter, as it looked to bring some order at India's biggest airline, which cancelled thousands of flights nationwide after failing to plan for tighter safety...

New Delhi: Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Tuesday assured the Lok Sabha during Question Hour that the government has expanded the ambit of the crop insurance scheme to cover losses caused not only by natural calamities but also by inundations and wild and stray...

New Delhi:  Birthday wishes poured in for former Congress president Sonia Gandhi as she turned 79 Tuesday, with the Congress saying her visionary leadership did not just guide the party but transformed India through landmark rights-based laws such as MGNREGA and the National Food Security...

Srinagar: A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Tuesday carried out searches in the forest area in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir as part of its probe into the November 10 blast near the Red Fort in Delhi, officials said. They said the...

New Delhi: Lok Sabha is set for a high-stakes debate on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and wider electoral reforms today, following a prolonged impasse that stalled proceedings. The breakthrough came after intense negotiations between the government and the Opposition, culminating in...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was felicitated at a meeting of all MPs of the ruling NDA Tuesday for the coalition's massive victory in the recent Bihar elections. Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and J P Nadda, who is also the BJP president,...