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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...

Bhubaneswar: The father of a 23-year-old woman, who was allegedly gangraped in West Bengal's Durgapur, Sunday appealed to the Odisha government to shift her to Bhubaneswar for treatment, citing a threat to her life. The survivor, a second-year MBBS student, is currently undergoing treatment at...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday said that female boarders, especially those from outside the state, should follow hostel rules and not venture out late at night. Banerjee made the averment after a student of a private medical college in Durgapur, hailing from...

Shimla: Congress leader P Chidambaram said Operation Blue Star was not the right way to capture militants holed up in the Golden Temple in 1984, due to which the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, "paid with her life". "There was a way to retrieve and...

Mumbai: Aviation safety regulator DGCA has directed Air India to reinspect the RAT (emergency power source) for stowage on all aircraft whose power conditioning module was replaced by the Tata Group-owned airline in recent times. At the same time, the aviation safety regulator has sought...

Kolkata/Balasore: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken a suo motu cognisance of the gangrape of a second-year medical student from Odisha. The gagarape took place outside a private medical college at Durgapur in the West Burdwan district of West Bengal, Friday night, where...

Kolkata/Balasore: Three persons were arrested Sunday for their alleged involvement in the 'gang rape' of an Odisha student of a private medical college in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district, police said. The identities of the three arrested accused were yet to be disclosed by the...