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Kolkata: As the Election Commission of India meets separately with delegations from the two factions of the Trinamool Congress in New Delhi in the second half Thursday, speculation is rife that the ECI may as well decide on who gets the party symbol and name....

Jammu: At least two terrorists have been gunned down by the joint forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district. Officials said that after suspicious movement was reported from Majalta of Udhampur district Wednesday evening, joint forces launched a cordon and search operation, following which contact...

Patoda/Beed: Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil Thursday announced the suspension of his 20-day hunger strike following his discussion with a government delegation comprising Ministers Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil and Dadaji Bhuse, MLAs Prasad Lad and Suresh Dhas, and the Beed District Collector. Following the talks,...

United Nations: India has denounced Pakistan over its links with "the worst of humanity", the al-Qaida terrorists who killed thousands in the US 25 years ago in the September 11 attacks. Recalling the Security Council's visit to the hallowed 9/11 memorial last week, India's Permanent...

Ranchi: Jharkhand's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), probing two separate cases related to irregularities in recruitment examinations conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC), has arrested four more accused, officials said Wednesday. Following preliminary interrogation, all four accused...

Raipur/Jagdalpur: An NIA special court in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur Tuesday sentenced 10 convicts to death in the Jhiram Ghati massacre case, in which 29 people were killed in a Maoist attack on a Congress party convoy May 25, 2013. The ambush targeted the Congress ‘Parivartan Yatra’...

Cairo: A gold mine collapse killed at least 67 people in a remote area in Sudan, a medical group and survivors said Wednesday. The tragedy happened in the al-Zara gold mine in the town of Nuhud in West Kordofan province. The area is under the...

Raipur/Jagdalpur: An NIA special court in Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur Tuesday sentenced 10 convicts to death in the Jhiram Ghati massacre case, in which 29 people were killed in a Maoist attack on a Congress party convoy May 25, 2013. The ambush targeted the Congress ‘Parivartan Yatra’...

New Delhi: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Centre’s recent framework permitting Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on specified high-value Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions above Rs 2,000, alleging that the move is arbitrary, discriminatory and imposes a...

Beijing: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Wednesday that Tehran is not interested in continuing the conflict with the US and looks forward to returning to a diplomatic solution, as he held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and briefed him on the latest developments...