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New Delhi: In a major festive season push, the Union Cabinet Wednesday approved a Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB) worth Rs 1,866 crore for railway employees, benefiting over 10.90 lakh staff across the country. Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the bonus, equivalent to 78 days...

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Wednesday approved the doubling of the Bakhtiyarpur–Rajgir–Tilaiya single railway line section, stretching across a distance of 104 km in Bihar with a total investment of Rs 2,192 crore. The project...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Wednesday approved a comprehensive package of Rs 69,725 crore to revitalise India’s shipbuilding and maritime ecosystem. The overall package is expected to unlock 4.5 million Gross Tonnage of shipbuilding capacity, generate nearly 30 lakh...

New Delhi: Delhi Police has booked a self-styled godman, Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati alias Parth Sarthy, after several female students of a management institute here accused him of sexual harassment. Despite raids and surveillance, the accused remains on the run. The complaint was filed August 4...

Raipur: In a major breakthrough for peace and rehabilitation efforts in South Bastar, 71 Maoists, including 30 with bounties totalling Rs 64 lakh, Wednesday laid down arms and surrendered to authorities under the Chhattisgarh government's flagship initiatives - Lon Varratu (Come Back Home) and Puna...

New Delhi: Actor Sonu Sood Wednesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in a money-laundering case linked to an online betting app named 1xBet, officials said. Sood (52) reached the agency's office in central Delhi around 12 noon. The investigating officer of the...

Patna: Launching a frontal attack on the BJP, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday accused it of orchestrating “vote chori” and communal polarisation and asserted that the Bihar Assembly elections would mark the beginning of end of the Modi government's "corrupt rule”. In his opening remarks...

New Delhi: Three Maoists linked to the banned outfit Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP) were gunned down in an encounter with police and security forces Wednesday morning in Jharkhand. The encounter took place in the dense forests of Kechki under the Bishunpur police station limits...

New Delhi: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Tuesday that the Vande Bharat Sleeper trains will be launched once the second train is ready for regular service. One train is ready for launch at Shakur Basti Coaching Depot in Delhi after undergoing necessary trials and testing, according...

New Delhi: The armed forces will test the capabilities of some of its drones and counter-drone systems during an exercise by the Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS) in the first week of October, a senior official said Tuesday. The exercise will be held somewhere...