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New Delhi: The Delhi Assembly was adjourned for 15 minutes Monday following Vijender Gupta's election as speaker amid sloganeering from both the treasury and the opposition benches, with AAP members accusing the BJP of being "anti-Dalit and anti-Sikh". Gupta, a three-time BJP MLA, was elected...

Amaravati: YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) President and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy attended the Assembly briefly on the first day of the Budget session before leading a walkout of his party members. Jagan Mohan Reddy was present in the house for...

New Delhi: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Upendra Dwivedi received a warm welcome from India's Ambassador Sanjeev Singla in Paris ahead of the former’s interaction with his French counterpart over bilateral Defence cooperation and global security challenges, an official said here Monday. General...

Jaipur: The Rajasthan Assembly witnessed the chaos Monday as soon as the Question Hour began. Speaker Vasudev Devnani directed six suspended Congress MLAs, including state party president Govind Singh Dotasara, to leave the House. However, the suspended legislators refused to comply, leading to disruptions that...

New Delhi: The raging row over USAID funding to India for ‘voter turnout’ has kicked up a political storm, with Congress and BJP taking turns to potshots at each other over the ‘beneficiaries’. Congress called it another ‘jumla’ to mislead and misguide the nation while...

Chennai: Fishermen in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, have launched an indefinite strike, demanding the immediate release of their colleagues arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy. This is following the arrest of 32 fishermen from Rameswaram by the Sri Lankan Navy Sunday (February 23). Five mechanised fishing...

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta along with her council of ministers took oath as members of the Legislative Assembly Monday. The first session of the House commenced this morning and will see all newly-elected legislators taking oath. Alongside Delhi CM, the BJP ministers...

Hyderabad: Hopes of finding eight trapped workers alive from an under-construction tunnel in Telangana’s Nagarkurnool district were receding even as teams from NDRF, Army and other agencies continued rescue operations Monday. More than 48 hours after a portion of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC)...

New Delhi: Twelve Indian nationals, who were deported to Panama by the US, returned to India from the Latin American nation on Sunday evening, officials said. The deportees arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, marking the first batch of Indians returning...

New York: An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi has been diverted to Rome, according to information on a flight tracking website. Italy's ANSA news agency said that the diversion was caused by an "alleged bomb threat". American Airlines flight AA292 departed...