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Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court Thursday upheld an earlier order of a Single-Judge Bench of the same court, directing exclusion of 'tainted' candidates from the fresh selection process initiated by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) to fill teaching posts lying vacant following a...

Gurugram: State-level tennis player Radhika Yadav was allegedly shot dead by her father Thursday at their Sushant Lok home in Gurugram, police said. The father has been detained, officials said. Why he did so is still being investigated. The father allegedly fired over five bullets...

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs Thursday approved the release of Rs 1,066.80 crore to flood and landslide-hit six states - Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Kerala and Uttarakhand. Among the six flood affected states, Assam received Rs 375.60 crore, Rs 29.20 crore was given...

Chennai: In a breakthrough in the decades-old Coimbatore serial bomb blasts case, Tamil Nadu police have arrested 'Tailor' Raja, one of the prime accused who had been absconding for 27 years. He was picked up from Vijayapura district in Karnataka Wednesday by a joint team...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday allowed the Election Commission of India to continue with its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, calling it a 'constitutional mandate'. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi, however, questioned the timing of the...

Kolkata: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Kolkata Police, that was previously probing the case related to the rape of a law college student at Kasba in South Kolkata last month, Thursday, submitted a progress report on its investigation at a Division Bench of the...

Chandigarh: A director-cum-principal was stabbed to death in a private school in a village in Haryana’s Hisar district Thursday, allegedly by two minor students who were upset at being repeatedly reprimanded for not having a proper haircut and following discipline. According to information received, the...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday agreed to hear July 14 a petition seeking directions to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya from execution. Indian national Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder...

Vadodara: After the Vadodara bridge collapse sent multiple vehicles plummeting into the river below July 9, authorities confirmed Thursday that 15 people have lost their lives so far, and the search continues for at least three others still unaccounted for. Rescue teams from the National...

New Delhi: An Indian commerce ministry team will soon visit Washington for another round of talks on the proposed trade agreement with the US to iron out differences in sectors, like agriculture and automobiles, a government official said Thursday. "We are not differentiating between an...