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SRINAGAR: Loyalists of veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad in J&K Congress have upped the ante for his appointment as the J&K Pradesh Congress chief to improve the party’s chances in the next Assembly election. Claiming that the…

NEW DELHI: Recurring heat waves in the city is taking a toll on people as well as the environment. The two city weather stations on Sunday recorded a high of 49 degrees C first-ever such reading in Delhi, said experts. The heat waves are…

KOLKATA: West Bengal Governor Jadgeep Dhankhar on Sunday sought an urgent report from the state's chief secretary H K Dwivedi over an "attack by the police" on the MLA office of Leader of Opposition in Assembly Suvendu Adhikari. He said…

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister and national convenor of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Arvind Kejriwal, will hold a crucial meeting with party MLAs on the anti-encroachment drive by the BJP-ruled municipal corporations in the city. As per the…

Agartala: Sixty-nine-year-old Professor of Dental Surgery in Tripura Medical College Manik Saha was sworn in as Chief Minister of Tripura on Sunday in a simple ceremony at the Raj Bhawan here. State Governor Satyadeo Narain Ar administered…

Kangra: Property worth lakhs of rupees was destroyed in a devastating fire that broke out at a shop in Hospital Gali of the main market of this temple town. However, there was no loss of life in the incident. A local shopkeeper noticed…

New Delhi: The authorities have identified 7 out of the 27 people who were killed in a massive fire in Mundaka area of West Delhi on Friday, officials told media. The bodies retrieved by Delhi Police and Fire Department from…

Hyderabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that his party was ready for early polls in Telangana and to defeat the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in the state, if the TRS government declares the election tomorrow…

INDORE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched the Madhya Pradesh government's Start-Up Policy 2022 and a start-up portal through video link in the presence of young entrepreneurs here. Under the new policy, start-ups would get…

NEW DELHI: Several people were reported missing after a massive fire broke out in a four-storey building near Mundka metro station in Delhi on Friday evening. Panic gripped the kin of those who went missing after the fire mishap as they…

NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporations (North and South) continued with the anti-encroachment drives in various parts of the city on Friday, with Shaheed Bhagat Singh Stadium at Mangolpuri being one of them, which they said was “illegally”…

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said the State BJP Core Committee is all set to meet Saturday in the city to discuss the forthcoming Legislative Council and Rajya Sabha elections. "We discussed other…

Veteran Congress leader and former Union minister Pandit Sukh Ram has passed away, his grandson said. He was 94. Sukh Ram was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on May 7. A Himachal Pradesh…

A ROCKET-PROPELLED Grenade (RPG) was fired at the Punjab Police’s Intelligence headquarters in Mohali on Monday evening, triggering a blast at the site, a senior officer told The Indian Express. Punjab DGP Viresh Kumar Bhawra, who…

Chandigarh, May 8: Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Sunday said that BJP-JJP coalition government is Haryana is running successfully and will work with more strength in its remaining term of two and half years. Both…

Ranchi, May 6: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday said that there was constitution and law in the country and no one was above that. Talking to media at the project building here he said that ED raid is merely hoax…

New Delhi, May 5: In a move to tighten the noose around private schools in the national capital, the Delhi Government on Thursday ordered that the school will not force the parents to buy uniforms and educational materials ffrom certain…

Shimla, May 4: Sr. Architect of Himachal Pradesh Public Works Department Rajiv Sharma was appointed as the new Chief Architect of Public Work Department at Shimla, the state government said on Wednesday. A notification was issued to…

How long will it take to flatten Delhi’s tottering garbage mountains? At the largest dumpsite in East Delhi’s Ghazipur, it could take decades to process just the legacy or old waste at the current pace. Not to mention that the landfill,…