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Moscow: Three Indians are among the crew on board the Russian oil tanker seized by the US, local media reported, even as Moscow Thursday asked Washington to comply with international laws on freedom of maritime navigation while strongly rejecting its ‘neo-colonist' tendencies. The Russian Foreign...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday dramatically turned up at the residence of I-PAC chief Pratik Jain amid an ongoing ED raid, alleging that the central agency was attempting to seize the TMC's internal documents, hard disks and sensitive data linked to its...

Cuttack: Judicial proceedings in several courts, including the Orissa High Court, were Thursday disrupted after the authorities received an anonymous email threatening to damage the premises, prompting police to launch search operations at different places, officials said. The authorities received an email in Odia where...

Washington: President Donald Trump has said that Venezuela has agreed to purchase only American-made products using proceeds from a new US-brokered oil deal, describing the arrangement as a major shift in the Caracas economic orientation and a boost for American manufacturers, farmers, and exporters. In...

Washington: US has seized two sanctioned oil tankers linked to Venezuela in back-to-back actions in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean, officials said Wednesday. US European Command announced the seizure of the merchant vessel Bella 1 for “violations of US sanctions” in a social media...

New Delhi: The names of 6.5 crore electors were removed from the draft electoral rolls of nine states and three Union territories published in the past days as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being carried out by the Election Commission. Before Phase...

Dhaka: As violence against minorities continues to escalate in Bangladesh, another Hindu man died after jumping into a canal in a bid to save his life from a mob that accused him of robbery in Mohadevpur upazila of Naogaon district, local media reported. The victim,...

New Delhi: Ten people have been detained after the Delhi Police filed an FIR over the stone-pelting incident during the demolition drive near a mosque in Old Delhi, officials said on Wednesday. The incident occurred near the Faiz-e-Ilahi Mosque in the Turkman Gate area, close...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "not that happy with me" because of the tariffs imposed by Washington on Delhi for its purchases of Russian oil. Trump, delivering remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat, also claimed that...

New Delhi: Observing that the central pollution watchdog is "failing in its duty", the Supreme Court Tuesday rapped the authority for seeking a two-month adjournment on the issue of temporary closure or relocation of toll plazas at Delhi borders to ease traffic congestion. The top...