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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Moscow next week to hold crucial talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, amid some strain in India's ties with the US over New Delhi's procurement of crude oil from Russia. Jaishankar's trip to Russia...

Kochi: The Kerala High Court Wednesday issued a stern ultimatum to the Central government, granting it one final opportunity to convey its decision on waiving off loans taken by victims of the Wayanad landslides. A division bench of Justices A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar and Jobin Sebastian...

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to visit India Monday to hold talks with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval under the mechanism of Special Representatives on the border issue, authoritative sources said. Wang is travelling to India days ahead of Prime Minister...

Balrampur: A mentally challenged and deaf-mute woman was allegedly gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur district after being chased by bike-borne men on a deserted road, the horror captured on CCTV that helped identify two suspects, police said Wednesday. The two accused, Ankur Verma and Harshit...

Amritsar: Akal Takht officiating jathedar Giani Kuldip Singh Gargaj Wednesday strongly condemned the brutal assault of a 70-year-old man in the US. Harpal Singh, an elderly Sikh man, was assaulted in Los Angeles and suffered a skull fracture and potential brain trauma. He was assaulted...

New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday said immediate dissolution of the Lok Sabha should be the first step towards conducting a genuine Special Intensive Revision (SIR). In a post on X, the TMC leader also said that the SIR should...

New Delhi: India and Singapore Wednesday explored ways to further expand their bilateral cooperation in areas of advanced technology, trade, connectivity and digitisation during a meeting of their top ministers. The deliberations took place at the third India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR) in New Delhi. External...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday said the 11 documents required to be submitted by an elector for Bihar's special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll, as opposed to seven documents in summary revision conducted previously, showed the exercise was "voter-friendly". A bench of...

Patna: The Election Commission of India (ECI) issued notices to Muzaffarpur Mayor Nirmala Devi and her two brothers-in-law, Manoj Kumar and Dilip Kumar, Wednesday over allegations of possessing dual Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC) numbers. The action follows Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav’s public disclosure...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is slated to hear Thursday a clutch of applications seeking restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir in a time-bound manner. As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, a Bench of CJI BR Gavai and...