Kolkata: West Bengal Fire Department Friday ordered that the basement and two floors of a high-rise building, housing TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's office, in central Kolkata be vacated over "lack of fire safety measures", an official said. This came a day after Banerjee's Camac Street...
New Delhi: Hours after the Delhi Police assured CJP that it will arrest Swatantra Bharadwaj, accused of assaulting a student's father during the Jantar Mantar protest, he managed to flee from Bulandshahr before the team reached there to nab him, police sources said Friday. Bharadwaj...
Srinagar: One terrorist was killed Friday during a joint operation by the Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police deep inside a forest area in Budgam district, officials said. The operation was launched based on information about the movement of a suspected group of terrorists from...
New Delhi: An Air India Airbus A320 carrying 145 people suffered near-simultaneous loss of all three hydraulic systems while cruising at 36,000 feet on a Phuket-Delhi flight on August 4, triggering an autopilot disconnect, a brief stall warning and an altitude upset that injured 24...
New Delhi: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) representatives Friday said the Delhi Police has assured that Swatantra Bharadwaj, the man accused of assaulting the father of student activist Nishu Azad during a protest at Jantar Mantar, will be arrested within 72 hours. The assurance came a...
New Delhi: The prevailing El Nino conditions over the equatorial Pacific are most likely to intensify into a very strong event in the coming months and persist through February 2027, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said. It said this could have substantial impacts on...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held a series of discussions with CEOs of global companies in New York on the new investment opportunities in digital infrastructure opening up in India’s fast-growing economy, according to an official statement posted on X Friday. In a meeting...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday congratulated Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni on becoming the longest serving Prime Minister in the European nation's postwar history and wished her continued success in the years ahead. PM Modi, while extending greetings on Meloni's feat, appreciated her government's...
New Delhi: HarperCollins India Friday said it will publish Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's memoir "Belonging: A Journey of Love" in India November 10, ending the uncertainty over the book's domestic publication following an "impasse" between the author's representatives and Penguin Random House India. "One of...
Bengaluru/Mangaluru: Food Safety officials have inspected a club in Bengaluru and an online grocery retail facility in Mangaluru following complaints over food safety violations, seizing expired food products and temporarily sealing storage areas as part of enforcement measures carried out over the past 24 hours....
By Aakar Patel The 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks will soon be upon us. Americans will mourn, taking...
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By Dilip Cherian An IAS officer quitting after 13 years is unusual. An officer as publicly visible as Divya Mittal...
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Banning books by governments does not surprise much since this has been going on across the world since long. But...
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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in its latest report released recently has castigated India for...
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