Dhaka: India Thursday resumed operations at its visa application centre in Dhaka, a day after closing it over escalated security concerns, but closed two other identical facilities in other parts of Bangladesh, officials and reports said. The Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) at southwestern Khulna...
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Thursday called for cricket matches between mid-December to mid-January to be scheduled in South India instead of the north, which experiences heavy fog during the period, so cricket lovers don't feel cheated. His remarks came a day after the...
Kolkata: Two senior IPS officers, including the state police chief, and a top government official submitted their responses to the West Bengal government Thursday regarding the show-cause notices issued over the mismanagement and vandalism during Argentina’s football icon Lionel Messi’s event at Salt Lake Stadium...
Dungarpur: An overnight sit-in protest was staged outside the Peeth police outpost in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan after a 16-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide following harassment by a youth in the Dhambola police station area. The protesters demanded action after the girl died after...
Kochi: The Kerala High Court Thursday stayed the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) notices issued in connection with funds raised through Masala Bonds by the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), granting interim relief to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, former Finance Minister Thomas Isaac, KIIFB CEO K.M....
New Delhi: With photographs of Mahatma Gandhi in hand, several opposition MPs Thursday took out a protest march inside the Parliament House complex against the government's G RAM G bill and demanded its withdrawal. Behind a huge banner that had 'Mahatma Gandhi NREGA' written on...
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI), from Thursday, will start sending notices for hearing on the claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, thus marking the end of the first stage of the three-part Special Intensive Exercise (SIR), which started...
Kochi: A major aviation mishap was averted Thursday when an Air India Express flight carrying around 160 passengers made an emergency landing at Kochi in Kerala after developing a technical snag mid-air. The flight, AIE 398, had originated from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and was...
New Delhi: The highest court of Belgium, the Court of Cassation, has rejected the appeal of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi against India's extradition request, while endorsing a lower court's view that there are no grounds for his claims of flagrant denial of justice, torture or...
New Delhi: The Delhi government will begin strict enforcement of the “No PUC, No Fuel” rule from December 18 as part of an intensified multi-pronged drive to curb worsening air pollution in the national capital. Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa Wednesday issued firm directives to...
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