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Mumbai: The Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested D.K. Rao, a close associate of underworld don Chhota Rajan, along with six accomplices, for allegedly threatening a hotelier in the city and demanding extortion money. The case came to light after the victim, a prominent hotelier, lodged...

Hyderabad: The Income Tax Department continued raids on the premises of some leading Telugu film industry filmmakers for a third consecutive day Thursday. The searches, which began Tuesday, continued on the premises of well-known producer and Telangana Film Federation Development Corporation (TGFDC) chairman V. Venkata...

New Delhi: In a bid to boost emergency health services, the Union Government has established 24x7 primary health centres (PHCs) and first referral units (FRUs) across the country. Under the National Health Mission (NHM), 12,348 PHCs have been converted to 24x7 services and 3,133 FRUs...

New Delhi: The death toll in the Jalgoan rail mishap in Maharashtra has risen to 13, said officials, adding that the deceased includes four Nepali nationals. The people were killed after a fire rumour on the Lucknow-Mumbai Pushpak Express train triggered panic among passengers, with...

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said that the Centre has taken a significant step to benefit farmers in the jute-producing sector, including in West Bengal, by approving a hike in the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of raw jute for the 2025-26 marketing...

Imphal/New Delhi: Confusion prevailed Wednesday over JD(U)'s support to the BJP-led Biren Singh government in Manipur with its state unit writing a letter to the governor, informing him of withdrawal of support and the central party leadership dismissing it, asserting the support to NDA. In...

Jaipur: With the tragic series of student suicides in Kota showing no signs of abating, another teenager -- 18-year-old Parag from Assam -- ended his life by hanging from a ceiling. Parag was in Kota preparing for the JEE, with his exam scheduled for January...

New Delhi: The CBI filed an appeal Wednesday before the Calcutta High Court, seeking death sentence for Sanjay Roy, who was sentenced to "life imprisonment until death" by a Sealdah court in the rape-cum-murder case of an on-duty doctor at RG Kar Medical College and...

Mumbai: A track curvature prima facie affected visibility for Karnataka Express which mowed down at least 12 passengers in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district Wednesday, Railway officials said. The passengers of Lucknow-CSMT Pushpak Express got down on tracks amid a fire rumour when the incident occurred, officials...

Gariaband: The bodies of two more Naxalites were recovered in Chhattisgarh's Gariaband district, where an encounter took place over the last two days between the security forces and Maoists, police said Wednesday. With this, the number of Naxalites killed during the operation has risen to...