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Thiruvananthapuram: The political storm around Youth Congress leader and first-time MLA Rahul Mamkootathil shows no signs of abating after the BJP and the CPI-M demanded his resignation over serious allegations against him by a woman, while the grand old party has rejected such demands. Thursday,...

New Delhi: In a major security breach Friday, a man entered the Parliament House complex by climbing a tree and scaling the wall. According to sources, the incident occurred around 6.30 a.m. Officials said that the intruder reached the Garuda gate of the new Parliament...

New Delhi: A large number of animal activists and caregivers assembled at the Jantar Mantar here Friday ahead of the Supreme Court's verdict on the relocation of stray dogs. Animal activists are up in arms against a recent apex court ruling directing the removal of...

New Delhi: India is set to celebrate the second National Space Day Saturday, honouring the country's journey from satellites to human spaceflight. Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, said in an X post that August 23, under the leadership of...

Patna: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting in Bodh Gaya Friday, Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav launched a scathing attack on the BJP and the PM. In a post on his official X handle, Tejashwi Yadav shared a video...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to pronounce August 22 the order on a plea to stay its August 11 direction to permanently relocate stray dogs from streets to dog shelters in Delhi-NCR. A three-judge special bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and...

New Delhi: French President Emmanuel Macron Thursday dialled Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed ongoing efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. Macron was among the European leaders who accompanied Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during...

New Delhi: The opposition's vice-presidential candidate B Sudarshan Reddy Thursday filed his nomination for the elections to the second-highest office, and asserted the contest is not just about an individual, but reaffirming the idea of India where Parliament functions with integrity, dissent is respected, and...

New Delhi: The month-long Monsoon session of Parliament ended Thursday after it witnessed almost daily disruptions and noisy protests by the Opposition in both Houses over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar. As the government termed the session as...

Rudrapur: A Class-9 student in Uttarakhand's Kashipur city allegedly shot at his teacher inside the school after being disciplined by the latter in the class, police said Thursday. The juvenile has been apprehended. The incident took place Wednesday, when the student shot at his teacher,...