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MUMBAI: With Maharashtra assembly elections round the corner, all major political parties are hitting the road, by launching yatras for mass outreach. Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has launched Jan Samaan Yatra on…

RANCHI: The Jharkhand High Court, while hearing a PIL on Thursday seeking probe on Bangladeshi intrusion changing the demography of Santhal Pargana, reprimanded the Centre and asked it to act before it is too late. Disappointed over the…

KOLKATA: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee died on Thursday at his Kolkata home, CPI(M) state secretary Mohd Salim said. He was suffering from old age-related ailments. The former chief minister was 80 and is…

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the landslides-hit areas of Wayanad on August 10 and hoped that the PM will take a positive stand with regard to…

AHMEDABAD: As India gears up to mark “World Tribal Day” on August 9, new figures from the Rajya Sabha reveal a significant challenge: over 40 per cent of tribal claims under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) have been rejected by the Gujarat…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi court on Thursday extended Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s judicial custody till August 20 in a case registered against him by the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) in the excise policy case. Special Judge…

VARANASI: The water level of river Ganga has been rising due to incessant heavy rain in hilly areas and the release of water from dams in many places. According to the Central Water Commission report, the water level of River Ganga has been…

KOLKATA: The West Bengal government on Wednesday reshuffled the cabinet by allocating additional departments to some ministers. While Babul Supriyo was given the IT, Public Enterprise & Industrial Reconstruction Department, Manas Ranjan…

DEHRADUN: In Uttarakhand, the ongoing landslide disaster of the past fortnight shows no signs of abating. The most recent catastrophe occurred on Tuesday night with a landslide at Tiffin Top peak in Nainital, famously known as Dorothy’s…

चंडीगढ़: फेफड़े की गंभीर बीमारी से पीड़ित 36 वर्षीय मरीज को हाल ही में मैक्स अस्पताल, मोहाली में यूनिपोर्टलवीडियो-असिस्टेड थोरैकोस्कोपिक सर्जरी (वैट) सर्जिकल तकनीक से नया जीवन मिला। मरीज को गंभीर हालत में सांस लेने में तकलीफ के साथ भर्ती…

चंडीगढ़:  बुधवार को जूरी ब्यूटी, बिगबॉक्स और मॉर्फ मेटा एकेडमी में तीज का त्योहार उत्साह और उमंग के साथ मनाया गया।  अकादमी छात्रों और स्टाफ ने भारतीय संस्कृति को दर्शाते हुए चमकदार पारंपरिक परिधान पहने। झूलों को फूलों से सजाया गया था।…

चंडीगढ़ :   हिमाचल महासभा,  चंडीगढ़ (पंजीकृत) का 3 साल का कार्यकाल समाप्त हो रहा है तथा 1 सितंबर को नए अध्यक्ष के चुनाव होने जा रहे हैं, आज सात अगस्त 2024, बुधवार को शाम 6:00 बजे निर्वाचन अधिकारी  शिविंदर मांधोत्रा  के समक्ष हिमाचल…

NEW DELHI: National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Rekha Sharma stepped down from her post after her tenure came to an end on Tuesday. 60-year-old Sharma assumed the role of women's commission chief on August 7, 2018. She was…

DEHRADUN: More than 230 stranded pilgrims were evacuated as rescue operations on the landslide-hit Kedarnath route in Uttarakhand continued for the sixth day on Tuesday, officials said. Though poor weather conditions and low visibility…

GUWAHATI: As the civil unrest in Bangladesh continues, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram and Meghalaya have heightened security along the international border. Bihar has also issued an alert in the districts situated close to the Bangladesh border.…

SRINAGAR: Even as additional troops have been rushed to the Jammu region and security tightened to tackle the growing militancy, an encounter broke out between militants and security forces in the forest area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur…

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) President and Maha Vikas Agadi (MVA) ally Uddhav Thackeray arrived in Delhi on Tuesday and is expected to urge his alliance partners—Congress and NCP (SP)—to declare him as the chief ministerial candidate for the…

RUDRAPRAYAG: More than 1,400 people stranded on the rain-ravaged trek route to Kedarnath were evacuated to safety on Monday as the rescue operations entered their fifth day. Air rescue operations gained momentum with the weather clearing…

RANCHI: As the registration starts for 'Mukhyamantri Maiyan Samman Yojana', BJP has warned the people saying that the JMM-Congress-RJD government is trying to commit another fraud and hence people should be more cautious. Notably, Chief…

PATNA: Kamya Mishra a 2019-batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre on Monday, resigned from her service. Mishra, a native of Odisha, is currently posted as superintendent of police (SP), in Darbhanga. Mishra sent her resignation to state police…