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Poonch(J-K): More than 118 Pakistani forward posts and their surveillance system were completely destroyed by the BSF during Operation Sindoor, dealing a major blow to the neighbouring country, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said Friday. Concluding his two-day tour of the Jammu region to review...

New Delhi: The corrupt act of issuing fake certificates for sports quota jobs has landed top former functionaries of the Mumbai-based Indian Body Builders Federation in trouble, with the CBI booking them for cheating and criminal conspiracy, an official said Friday. The IBBF’s then Vice...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against Chandigarh-based journalist and YouTuber Ajay Shukla for his "scandalous", defamatory and contemptuous remarks against a few apex court judges in a video uploaded on his channel. A bench comprising Chief Justice BR Gavai and...

New Delhi: India's economic growth slowed to 7.4 per cent in the January-March period, and pulled down the annual growth rate for 2024-25 to a four-year low of 6.5 per cent, mainly due to the manufacturing sector, official data showed Friday. The size of the...

Hyderabad:  Seventeen Maoists active in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur and Sukma districts surrendered before police in Telangana's Bhadradri Kothagudem district Friday. The members of the banned CPI-Maoist surrendered in the presence of Superintendent of Police Rohit Raju and CRPF officials at the district police headquarters. According to...

Panaji: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Friday asserted that had the Indian Navy been fully deployed during 'Operation Sindoor', Pakistan could have been split into four parts. Speaking onboard INS Vikrant, India’s first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, off the coast of Goa, the Defence Minister said, “The...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday issued directions that the post-graduate medical entrance exam scheduled June 15 be conducted in a single shift, saying holding it in two shifts "creates arbitrariness". A bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath directed the authorities to make arrangements for holding...

Dehradun: An Uttarakhand court Friday sentenced the three convicts to life imprisonment in the sensational Ankita Bhandari murder case in Pauri district in 2022. Additional District and Session Judge, Kotdwar, Reena Negi held Pulkit Arya, resort owner and son of a former BJP leader, and...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The CBI has arrested Chintan Raghuvanshi, deputy director of the Enforcement Directorate in Odisha, for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 20 lakh from a businessman based in Bhubaneswar, officials said Friday. The 2013-batch Indian Revenue Service officer from the Customs and Indirect...

Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met IPL sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi and his family at Patna airport Friday. The PM interacted with the cricketer and his parents before leaving the venue. PM Modi is on a two-day visit to Bihar, from Thursday to Friday. He inaugurated...