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Mumbai: In a political jolt, senior Congress leader from Mumbai and former Union Minister Milind M Deora has quit the party here Sunday. Deora himself tweeted the news, ending over four years of sporadic speculation on his political plans, remaining in denial mode till as...

New Delhi: A consensus emerged on the name of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for appointment as the chairperson of the opposition bloc INDIA Saturday, sources said. Leaders of the bloc met virtually and discussed various aspects of the alliance and the preparations for the Lok...

New Delhi: Top leaders of parties of the opposition INDIA bloc will hold discussions January 13 on strengthening the alliance, chalking out a strategy on seat-sharing, and deciding whether to have a convenor of the grouping, sources said Friday. Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee will...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday refused to stay the new law that provides for appointment of the chief election commissioner and election commissioners by a panel excluding the Chief Justice of India. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, however, agreed to...

New Delhi: Around 416 Myanmarese soldiers crossed over to India following the situation arising out of the fighting between Myanmar's armed ethnic groups and government forces, and the Indian military is "closely watching" the unfolding developments, Army chief General Manoj Pande said Thursday. The hostilities...

New York: The US government has refused to provide "discovery material" after it was asked by a New York court to respond to a motion filed by lawyers of Indian national Nikhil Gupta, named in an alleged plot to assassinate Sikh radical Gurpatwant Singh Pannun....

New Delhi: The Congress Wednesday announced that party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have "respectfully declined" the invitation to attend the Ram Temple consecration ceremony, alleging that it has been made into a "political project" by the BJP and the RSS...

Chitradurga: The boy was smothered to death, said a senior doctor in Chitradurga citing the postmortem report of the four-year-old who was allegedly killed by his mother at a service apartment in Goa. Suchana Seth, the chief executive officer (CEO) of an artificial intelligence start-up,...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate Tuesday filed its first charge sheet in the railways land-for-jobs linked money laundering case, naming former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and her MP daughter Misa Bharti among others, official sources said. RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's another daughter Hema...

New Delhi: Accusing the Gujarat government of abusing its power, the Supreme Court Monday quashed the remission to 11 men convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano and murdering seven of her family members during the 2002 riots and ordered that they be sent back to jail...