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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...

Mirzapur: Six women passengers were killed by an approaching train at Chunar Railway Station Wednesday while alighting from the wrong side of the train, according to railway officials. The incident took place at about 9.30 am when the passengers got off the Chopan Express on...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday cited electoral list data from Haryana to claim that 25 lakh entries were "fake" and the assembly polls last year were "stolen", as he accused the Election Commission of colluding with the BJP to make them win. The...

Chennai: Coimbatore Police has intensified night patrolling and visible policing at 59 identified isolated areas following the brutal gangrape of a college student near the city airport. The move follows widespread outrage over what many citizens see as a systemic failure in ensuring women’s safety...

Mirzapur: Four passengers were killed by an approaching train at Chunar Railway Station Wednesday while alighting from the wrong side of the train, according to railway officials. The passengers got off the Chopan Express on the track and were hit by the approaching Netaji Express, Amit...

Purnea: The elder brother of a JD(U) leader, along with his wife and daughter, was discovered dead in their Purnea district residence Wednesday, according to police officials. The bodies were recovered from their house in the European colony under the Kehat Police Station limits Tuesday...