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New Delhi: India still looks 'saare jahan se accha' from space, astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla said Sunday, wrapping up his 18-day stay at the International Space Station (ISS), reprising the words used by his icon Rakesh Sharma in 1984. Shukla, who is set to begin his...

New Delhi/Balasore: Congress Sunday termed the case of a woman student at Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College in Odisha's Balasore district, who allegedly set herself on fire over "sexual harassment" by a teacher, a "national tragedy." It said women across India feel unsafe, especially because of...

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu will be on a two-day visit to Odisha from Monday, her office said in a statement. The President will grace the fifth convocation ceremony of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhubaneswar Monday, it said. On July 15, Murmu...

Mumbai: The Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA) Sunday said the crew of the AI 171 flight that crashed last month acted in line with their training and responsibilities under challenging conditions, and the pilots should not be vilified based on conjecture. Strongly rejecting insinuations in...

Karwar(Karnataka): A spiritually inclined Russian woman and her two young children were rescued from a remote cave nestled in the serene yet treacherous Ramatirtha hills of Kumta taluk in Uttara Kannada district, a police officer said. Police identified the woman as 40-year-old Nina Kutina alias...

New Delhi: The Election Commission has activated its poll machinery across states for a possible roll-out of pan-India special intensive revision (SIR) next month just like the one being carried out in Bihar. The move comes after the Supreme Court last week called the SIR...

New Delhi: The preliminary findings into the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash at Ahmedabad are not enough to determine the exact cause of the accident, and investigators should not draw conclusions at this stage, former Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Director, Group Captain Aurobindo...

New Delhi: Former foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Special Public Prosecutor in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case Ujjwal Nikam, Kerala BJP leader C Sadanandan Master and Delhi-based historian Meenakshi Jain have been nominated to the Rajya Sabha. In a notification issued late Saturday night,...

Kolkata: The alleged rape case of a woman by a student of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta inside a hostel on the campus has taken a new turn, with her father claiming that the reported incident did not take place. The accused student was arrested ...

New Delhi: The Election Commission has always been a "puppet" in the hands of the Modi government, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal has alleged and claimed the poll body's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar is an "unconstitutional" move aimed at ensuring that...