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New Delhi: The Centre's panel on Delhi-NCR's air quality Wednesday invoked curbs under stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) amid a sharp dip in air quality due to unfavourable meteorological conditions, according to an official order. Calm winds, low temperatures and foggy...

New Delhi: The CBI has booked a former deputy secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and six former Prasar Bharati officials in connection with a corruption case referred to it by the Lokpal, officials said Wednesday. Besides the former MoIB deputy secretary, the...

New Delhi: A high-powered enquiry committee set up by the government has recommended legal action against an unnamed individual after probing activities of some organised criminal groups and terrorist organisations, which undermined the security interests of both India and the US. The probe was ordered...

Chhindwara: Three labourers, trapped under the debris after a wall collapsed in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district, have died, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said Wednesday. The under-construction well caved in at Khunajhir Khurd village in the district Tuesday evening following which the three persons, including a...

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh Wednesday described RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks that India's "true independence" was established on the day of the Ram temple's consecration as "anti-national" and demanded an apology over the statement. Ramesh's remarks came after Bhagwat said the date...

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has granted sanction to the Enforcement Directorate to prosecute former Delhi chief minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, officials said Wednesday. The federal agency filed a chargesheet against the 56-year-old politician...

Kochi: The Kerala High Court Wednesday ticked off prominent businessman Boby Chemmanur for refusing to come out of jail after getting bail a day ago in a sexual harassment filed by Malayalam actor Honey Rose. Judge said, "Don’t play drama with the court". The High...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday protected former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar from arrest till February 14. Khedkar was accused of cheating and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota benefits in the civil services examination. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma...

Pune: Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi Wednesday said the situation along the northern border is stable but at the same time sensitive, asserting that "whatever was done in Galwan should not get repeated". He also said that his force is fully ready and capable to...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remarks that "we are now fighting the BJP, the RSS and the Indian state itself" triggered a row Wednesday with the BJP claiming that the Congress' ‘ugly truth’ has been exposed by its own leader and that his statement...