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Chennai: Nalini Sriharan, her husband and three other convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case were released from Tamil Nadu prisons Saturday evening. Immediately after she was released from the special prison for women in Vellore, Nalini went to the Vellore central prison from where...

Chennai: A Legislative party meeting chaired by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin Saturday said it "rejected" the 103rd Constitutional Amendment providing 10 per cent EWS quota by the Centre, saying it created "caste-discrimination" among the poor. The meeting, boycotted by Principal opposition AIADMK...

New Delhi: The Congress Friday termed "totally unacceptable and completely erroneous" the Supreme Court order directing the premature release of six convicts serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, and said the apex court has not acted in consonance with the spirit of...

New Delhi: Developing countries require "substantive enhancement" in climate finance from the floor of USD 100 billion per year to meet their ambitious goals and rich countries need to lead the mobilisation of resources, India has stressed at the ongoing UN climate summit COP27. At...

Male: Eight Indians were among 10 people who were confirmed dead early Thursday, when a fire broke out in the garage below a cramped living quarters that housed foreign workers here in the Maldivian capital, an Indian High Commission official said. The fire broke out...

Moscow/Kiev: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered troops to withdraw from the western bank of Ukraine's Dnipro River, meaning that the forces were retreating from Kherson -- the first big city to fall to Moscow after it launched its invasion February 24. Shoigu announced...

New Delhi: The well-being of the eight former Indian Navy personnel who are in detention in Qatar continues to be shrouded in mystery even as the Indian mission in the Gulf nation remained in touch with the local authorities on the matter. It is learnt...

New Delhi/Kathmandu: At least six people were killed when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the lower Himalayan region early Wednesday, leading to tremors rippling across north India and parts of Nepal and jolting people out of their sleep in scores of cities and villages. The National...

New Delhi: India and Russia have an "exceptionally" steady and time-tested relationship and the objective now is to fashion a balanced, mutually beneficial and long-term engagement in the backdrop of the increasing economic cooperation, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Tuesday during talks with his...

New Delhi: Bypoll to Khatauli Assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh will be held December 5, the Election Commission said Tuesday. The bypoll was necessitated after BJP MLA Vikram Singh was last month convicted in a case related to the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots and handed down...