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New Delhi: Twelve bills were passed by the Lok Sabha and 15 by the Rajya Sabha during the month-long Monsoon session of Parliament, which witnessed repeated disruptions, adjournments and walkouts. Barring discussions on Operation Sindoor in both House, the session has seen little business ever...

New Delhi: Excited after a successful mission to the International Space Station (ISS), Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla Thursday hoped someone would very soon travel to space "from our own capsule, from our rocket, from our soil". Addressing a press conference here, Group Captain Shukla said...

New Delhi: The government Thursday said that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had issued four show-cause notices to Air India over 29 violations. These violations are addressed as per the Enforcement Policy and Procedure Manual of DGCA. A few instances of systematic issues...

New Delhi: The CBI will seek from the Srinagar Special Court the police remand of eight Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel arrested by it for inflicting "brutal and inhuman custodial torture" on a fellow police constable two years ago, officials said. The eight officers who...

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die Thursday with Speaker Om Birla lamenting the conduct of Opposition members during the Monsoon Session. After an earlier adjournment at 11 am, the House met again at 12 noon, in which Birla lamented that in the...

New Delhi: The Opposition INDIA bloc’s Vice Presidential candidate and former Supreme Court judge Justice (Retd) B. Sudershan Reddy filed his nomination papers in the presence of top Opposition leaders here Thursday. Justice Reddy has been fielded against the NDA’s nominee C.P. Radhakrishnan, the incumbent...

New Delhi: Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka will be on an official visit to India from August 24–26, marking his first trip to the country in his current capacity. The visit aims to further deepen the longstanding partnership and close ties between the two...

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) Thursday said the office of the Bihar Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has so far received 70,895 claims and objections from individual voters seeking inclusion or deletion of names in the state’s draft electoral rolls. Of these, 3,449...

New Delhi: The Opposition parties Wednesday alleged that the Modi government is attempting to turn India into a "dictatorship" with the introduction of three Bills that seek to provide for the removal of the prime minister, chief ministers and ministers arrested on serious charges, and...

New Delhi/Chandipur: In a significant boost to India's strategic defence arsenal, the nuclear-capable Agni-5 intermediate-range ballistic missile was successfully test-fired Wednesday from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Odisha's Chandipur, the Ministry of Defence said. In a statement, the ministry said: "The intermediate-range ballistic missile...