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New Delhi: Delhi Forest and Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa Saturday announced a ban from April 1 on sale of fuel to vehicles older than 15 years and constituted a team to identify and restrict movement of overage, polluting vehicles in the city. Addressing media...

Dehradun: Fifty workers have been pulled out of snow brought in by an avalanche at a BRO camp in the high-altitude Mana village in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, but four of them died on Saturday as rescuers raced against time to save the remaining five labourers....

Sukma: Two Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district Saturday, police said. The gunfight took place in the morning in a forest under the Kistaram police station area, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an...

Kozhikode: A 15-year-old class 10 student from Kozhikode district who sustained severe head injuries after being attacked by fellow students following a dispute at a farewell party succumbed to his injuries Saturday. Muhammed Shahabas, a student at M J Higher Secondary School in Elettil, was...

Nagarkurnool: Rescue teams engaged in extricating the eight trapped workers under a partially collapsed tunnel of the SLBC here are cutting down a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) to make way to reach the stranded persons, officials said Saturday The rescue efforts are in full swing...

Kolkata: The supplementary charge sheet that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is set to submit to a special court in Kolkata regarding the RG Kar rape and murder case will focus on specific issues, while shedding light on the broader conspiracy behind the heinous...

Junagadh: A killing case having some similarities to the plot of movie ‘Drishyam’ was solved after Junagadh police recovered a woman’s skeletal remains from a well, 13 months after she went missing. The prime suspect, Hardik Sukhadia (28), misled investigators for months, even passing a...

Sukma: An encounter broke out between Naxalites and security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district Saturday morning, police said. The gunfight occurred in a forest in the Kistaram police station area, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation, an official...

New Delhi: A high-level Belgian delegation, led by Princess Astrid, is visiting India from March 1 to 8 to boost trade and diplomatic ties. The visit will prioritise industries like pharmaceuticals, logistics, aerospace and renewable energy, according to an official statement. The delegation is slated...

Chamoli: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday spoke to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to assess the ongoing rescue efforts in Chamoli's Mana region, where an avalanche buried a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) camp, trapping 55 workers. So far, 47 workers have been rescued, while...