New Delhi: Field-level functionaries of the Election Commission have found "a large number of people" from Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar during house-to-house visits made for the ongoing intensive review of the voters' list in Bihar, officials said Sunday. They asserted that the names of illegal...
New Delhi/ Mumbai: The preliminary probe report on the fatal Air India aircraft crash has turned the spotlight on the action of pilots, while the absence of any recommendation for Boeing 787-8 operators seems to have left several questions unanswered as the investigation progresses, experts...
New Delhi: Within seconds of lift off, the engine fuel control switches of Air India's ill-fated Boeing 787-8 plane got switched off, with one of the pilots asking the other why he cut off and the latter responding, saying he did not do so, according...
Bhubaneswar: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi Friday urged party members in Odisha to fight unitedly against the BJP government in the state. Kharge and Gandhi held closed-door meetings with state party leaders shortly after addressing the ‘Samvidhan Bachao Samavesh' in Bhubaneswar....
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday allowed the Election Commission of India to continue with its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, calling it a 'constitutional mandate'. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi, however, questioned the timing of the...
New Delhi: An Indian commerce ministry team will soon visit Washington for another round of talks on the proposed trade agreement with the US to iron out differences in sectors, like agriculture and automobiles, a government official said Thursday. "We are not differentiating between an...
New Delhi: Strong tremors from an earthquake were felt across Delhi-NCR Thursday, causing panic among residents in the National Capital, Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad, and other nearby areas. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the earthquake was measured to be of 4.4 magnitude on the...
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has introduced a fail system at Class 5 and 8 annual examinations from the current academic year, an official notification said. To implement the decision, the government Wednesday brought necessary amendments to the Odisha Right of Children to Free and Compulsory...
Vadodara: Nine persons, including a child, were killed and nine others rescued after a portion of a four-decade-old bridge collapsed in Gujarat's Vadodara district Wednesday morning, officials said. A slab of the Gambhira bridge, located on Mahisagar river which connects central Gujarat to the Saurashtra...
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Banking, insurance, postal, coal mining, highway, and construction services are likely to be disrupted Wednesday as over 25 crore workers affiliated with central and sectoral trade unions go on a nationwide strike. The protest targets the Union government's new labour codes and privatisation...
One of the most remarkable democratic developments of recent times came from New York City this month. A 33-year-old man...
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It’s hard not to see the flight of over a dozen IAS officers from Tripura’s cadre as a crypto-threshold moment....
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Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari took everyone by surprise when at a function in Nagpur, where the...
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The coming together of the Thackeray cousins – Raj Thackeray, chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena...
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