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Mumbai: The Election Commission of India (ECI) Monday announced the schedule for the long-delayed biennial elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) from 16 Local Authorities' Constituencies. The polling is scheduled June 18, and the counting of votes will be conducted June 22. According to...

New Delhi: A fresh petition has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking immediate transition of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) to a Computer-Based Test (CBT) mode, contending that repeated paper leak controversies and alleged security lapses have exposed the vulnerability of the existing pen-and-paper...

Chennai: The internal crisis within the AIADMK has deepened further as the party’s growing factional battle spread across district units in Tamil Nadu, triggering tensions and prompting police intervention in several places. Supporters of Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS) and the rival faction led by former...

  Kolkata: The crucial second meeting of the new West Bengal cabinet under the leadership of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari is scheduled Monday afternoon, with sectors such as state finance and education being on the agenda. In the finance sector, a crucial subject on the...

Kolkata: A protest against the recent bulldozer action in Kolkata's Tiljala turned violent Sunday as demonstrators threw stones at police personnel in the Park Circus area, injuring at least three of them and damaging several vehicles, officials said. Bulldozers rolled into Kolkata's Tiljala last Wednesday...

Kolkata: A large number of Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) were found scattered in a field in West Bengal's Birbhum district Sunday, while over a hundred Aadhaar cards and other documents were recovered from a TMC office in Bidhannagar, triggering political sparring and prompting police...

Kandla: A vessel carrying 20,000 metric tonnes of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) arrived at Deendayal Port Authority in Kandla in Gujarat after crossing the Strait of Hormuz amid the West Asia crisis, officials said Sunday. The Marshall Islands-flagged MV SYMI started its journey from Qatar...

New Delhi: India is closely monitoring Sri Lanka's decision to offer foreign investors control of an airport near the China-controlled Hambantota port, as it could present a rare opening for Indian firms seeking strategic footholds in the Indian Ocean, people familiar with the matter said...

Cairo: A drone strike caused a fire outside a nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi Sunday, authorities in the United Arab Emirates said. The Abu Dhabi media office said in a statement that the fire broke out in an external electrical generator outside the perimeter...

New Delhi: The Ministry of Education Sunday dismissed concerns about On-Screen Marking (OSM) affecting students' scores in CBSE class XII exams and announced that the revaluation and answer sheet verification charges have been reduced to Rs 100 each. According to officials, the decision has been...