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New Delhi: The Centre Thursday imposed a stockholding limit on bulk consumers of sugar, restricting them to stocks equivalent to 15 days’ consumption. Announcing the move, Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Pralhad Joshi said bulk consumers using more than 10 tonnes of sugar a...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Thursday said Vande Mataram was not a "political bargaining chip" but the "soul of Bharat's freedom struggle", amid an ongoing row over the national song. Taking to social media, Majhi said the Congress Working Committee's decision to limit...

Srinagar: US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor's remarks that Jammu and Kashmir is an important part of India and the protest registered by Pakistan over the comment have drawn mixed reactions from political spectrum in the Union territory. The BJP welcomed Gor's remarks as a...

Chennai: The Madras High Court has dismissed a petition seeking directions to the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker and Assembly Secretary to initiate disqualification proceedings against 25 rebel AIADMK legislators who supported the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay May 13. A division...

Dhaka: India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Dinesh Trivedi, Thursday assured that New Delhi would take all necessary steps following the deaths of Bangladeshi nationals in a hotel fire in Kolkata, local media reported. “It's very sad. We will certainly do whatever needs to be done,”...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday held that police cannot investigate offences under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act. The PCPNDT Act was enacted with the intent to prohibit the use of prenatal diagnostic techniques for determination of the sex of the foetus....

New Delhi: Alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar Thursday wrote a letter from jail to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and ex-minister Satyender Jain, threatening to expose three more "key scams". "Dear Kejriwal Ji, Satyender Ji, and Proxy Party, one more tick in the box, to...

New Delhi: Former Congress MP, Sajjan Kumar, who was serving life imprisonment in connection with cases arising from the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, died Thursday at a Delhi hospital. He was 80. Kumar, lodged in Tihar Jail, was taken to Safdarjung Hospital after his health deteriorated....

New Delhi: Journalist Tarun Tejpal Thursday moved the Supreme Court against his conviction in a 2013 sexual assault case. The appeal against the August 6 order of the Bombay High Court has been filed through advocate Aditya Samaddar. Earlier, the Goa government moved the top...

New Delhi: Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju Thursday said border areas had been neglected in the past but were now a top priority of the Narendra Modi government, as he sought to counter claims of fresh Chinese incursions in Arunachal Pradesh. Rijiju also invoked...