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New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court Monday agreed to examine a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of several provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023. The top court, however, refused to grant an interim stay on the...

New Delhi: The country's merchandise exports rose marginally by 0.61 per cent to USD 36.56 billion in January, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said Monday. Imports increased by 19.2 per cent to USD 71.24 billion in January this year from USD 59.77 billion recorded a year...

Guwahati: Former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Borah has withdrawn his resignation after the party high command's intervention, AICC state in-charge Jitendra Singh claimed Monday. Senior Congress leaders, including Singh and Assam unit chief Gaurav Gogoi met Borah at his residence here, after he sent a...

New Delhi: The world's largest artificial intelligence summit opened to packed halls and long queues Monday, as tech moguls, industry leaders, policymakers, founders, and technologists thronged the venue for the conference, where India is set to push for widening access to AI and seek international...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday refused to entertain petitions seeking action against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over a viral video purportedly showing him taking aim and firing with a rifle at members of a particular community. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant...

New Delhi: Wholesale price inflation extended upward momentum for the third straight month, at 1.81 per cent in January, driven by an uptick in prices of food, non-food articles, and manufactured items on a month-on-month basis, government data showed Monday. Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation...

Jaipur: Seven workers were burnt alive when a fire broke out in a chemical factory in Rajasthan's Bhiwadi town Monday, officials said. Two workers remain trapped inside the unit. The fire broke out in Bhiwadi's Khushkhera-Karoli industrial area. Additional District Magistrate Sumita Mishra said police...

New Delhi: In a major jolt to the Congress ahead of the Assembly polls in Assam, the party's former state unit chief Bhupen Kumar Borah has resigned, according to sources. Sources said Borah has sent his resignation letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. In his...

New Delhi/Ottawa: Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand met India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany, marking their fifth meeting since September 2025 and underscoring the steady progress in bilateral ties. In an official press release, the...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron are set to meet in Mumbai  Tuesday to assess the progress achieved under the India-France strategic partnership and exchange views on key regional and global developments. Prime Minister Modi will travel to Mumbai for...