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Varanasi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, is scheduled to visit Varanasi Saturday to take stock of the prevailing flood situation and review the relief and assistance being provided to people affected by the recent flooding in the city. The Chief Minister is expected to...

New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo, Mayawati, Saturday criticised the ongoing demolition of illegal mosques in Uttar Pradesh, including the recent demolition of a mosque in Saharanpur, and urged the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath government to immediately halt such action. Taking to social media...

Thrissur (Keralam): Eight engineering students from Tamil Nadu's Dindigul were killed when their car rammed into a lorry parked "illegally" on NH-66 in Thrissur district of central Keralam, police said Saturday. The accident occurred at around 11.40 pm Friday at Panambikkunnu in Kaipamangalam, when the...

New Delhi: Supreme Court-appointed Aravalli High-Powered Committee (HPC) has asked the apex court to extend the deadline for submission of its final report by six months, saying it needs more time for a "comprehensive and defensible" assessment of the Aravalli range. In its compliance report...

New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan Friday expressed concern over the alleged assault of protesters by police personnel during the recent NEET students' protest at Jantar Mantar, saying the detachment expected of police officers appears to be disappearing. Speaking at the launch of...

New Delhi: Two hundred seventy-five Indians remained missing while 166 others were rescued following the devastating flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday. It said that 1,907 Indian nationals have safely crossed over to Nepal from China. MEA...

Abu Dhabi: Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal AP Singh Friday explored avenues to strengthen India-UAE cooperation in military and defence fields during his meeting with Major General Staff Rashid Mohammed Al Shamsi, Commander of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force...

New Delhi: Air India Friday terminated the services of the pilot-in-command of Phuket-Delhi flight who had tested positive for drug use. The announcement from the airline came hours after probe agency AAIB's preliminary report into the Phuket flight incident said the drug use by the...

Aden (Yemen): At least 40 Yemeni government soldiers and 50 Houthi fighters have been killed in fierce fighting across the country's western frontlines since Thursday, medical officials told Xinhua news agency Friday. A medical official on the Red Sea coastal front in Hodeidah province said...

New Delhi: Hindutva influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj was detained from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh Friday, hours after Delhi Police assured CJP protesters that he would be arrested within 72 hours for allegedly assaulting the father of a student in July, officials said. Several teams were deployed...