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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank Saturday extended the special drive to withdraw Rs 2,000 bank notes from the system by another week, till October 7. The central bank said ever since it announced the move to withdraw Rs 2,000 notes May 19, Rs 3.42 lakh crore...

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to the women's reservation bill which seeks to provide 33 per cent reservation to women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. According to a law ministry notification issued Friday, the president gave her assent Thursday....

Washington: India and the US agreed to continue their cooperation in the areas of defence, space and clean energy as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Secretary of State Antony Blinken here, amid a simmering diplomatic row between India and Canada over the killing of...

Bhubaneswar: Two BJP MLAs including Opposition chief whip Mohan Majhi were suspended Thursday from the Odisha Assembly till the end of the current session for allegedly throwing ‘daal’ (pulses) at Speaker Pramila Mallik’s podium. The other BJP lawmaker who was suspended is Mukesh Mahaling. Mohan...

Washington: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is scheduled to meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken here Thursday, amid the diplomatic rumpus between India and Canada stirred over the killing of a Khalistani separatist. Although officials from both sides are tightlipped about the agenda of...

Imphal: The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA was extended by another six months in Manipur Wednesday barring 19 police stations falling under the Imphal valley and an area that shares its boundary with neighbouring Assam. An official notification said the state government is...

Imphal: The Manipur government Tuesday reimposed the ban on internet services for the next five days, soon after police baton-charged students in Imphal during a demonstration against the alleged kidnapping and death of two youths. The police action left 45 students, many of them girls,...

New Delhi: Pro-Khalistan elements have been ‘operating freely’ from Canadian soil for nearly 50 years now in the garb of notions like 'freedom of expression' and 'political advocacy' but the country maintains 'complete silence' on intimidation, violence, drug trafficking by these extremists, sources said Tuesday....

Chennai: Ending its four year-old ties with the BJP,  the AIADMK Monday announced walking out of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and said it would lead a separate front for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The decision to break away from the NDA was taken...

New Delhi: A day after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) confiscated the properties of Canada-based ‘designated individual terrorist’ Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, it is learnt that the government has asked the investigative agencies to identify the properties of other terrorists wanted in India sitting abroad. Sources...