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Patna: A day after a class 10 student was gunned down and another injured in Bihar's Rohtas district, hundreds of villagers Friday blocked the Delhi-Kolkata National Highway (NH) at Dehri, demanding swift justice. The murder of 14-year-old Amit Kumar, who was returning home after his...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress President Harshwardhan Vasantrao Sapkal Friday demanded the immediate resignation of state Agriculture Minister Manikrao Kokate, who was convicted of committing fraud using fake documents to acquire two government quota flats. “If the state government does not dismiss him it will amount to...

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Friday that ten persons have been arrested in connection with the attack on Congress MP Rakibul Hussain. Taking to social media platform X, CM Sarma said, "The police have identified the individuals involved in the alleged incident...

New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Friday hit back at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on the three-language NEP Policy issue, saying that it "was inappropriate for the State to view NEP 2020 with a myopic vision and spin progressive educational reforms into...

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials have started probing the influential links of a racket involved in massive irregularities in admission to private medical colleges in West Bengal under the Non-Resident Indian (NRI) quota. The probe was started after specific clues were sourced by the...

Jammu: India and Pakistan are scheduled to hold a flag meeting Friday on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district to address the rising incidents of ceasefire violation. The flag meeting will be attended by Brigadier-level officers of the two sides...

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, who was sworn in Thursday and held her first Cabinet meeting in the evening, has allocated portfolios to her Cabinet ministers. Gupta, who is Delhi's fourth woman Chief Minister, has retained Finance, Planning, General Administration, Services, Revenue, Women...

Imphal: Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla has urged the people of the strife-torn state to voluntarily surrender looted and illegally held weapons within seven days, assuring no punitive action would be initiated against those giving up arms during this period. However, Bhalla asserted that "strict...

New Delhi: Following US President Donald Trump’s admission to attempts by former US governments to influence elections in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday took potshots at Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, claiming that he acted as a "tool...

New Delhi: Promising to promptly launch mission ‘Viksit Delhi’, new city Chief Minister Rekha Gupta Thursday assured citizens that each commitment made by the BJP before the election will be fulfilled. Addressing media persons soon after assuming office at the Delhi Secretariat, Chief Minister Gupta...