Home News

Kolkata: The toll in the Taratala warehouse collapse in south Kolkata rose to 15 Friday as teams of multiple agencies, including Army personnel, retrieved two more bodies, and two others succumbed to their injuries while undergoing treatment, an official said. The rescue teams continued intensive...

Kochi: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has widened its investigation into the alleged CMRL-Exalogic ‘masappadi’ (monthly payment) case to examine whether Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd. received undue favours from the erstwhile LDF government, even as it subjected T. Veena, daughter of former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan,...

Washington: India's envoy to the US, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, discussed the path to deepen bilateral trade partnership with the leadership and members of the Ways and Means Committee of the American House of Representatives. "Joined a special roundtable discussion on key aspects of the US-India...

Dubai: A United Nations agency paused the evacuation of ships through the Strait of Hormuz Thursday after the British military said a vessel was hit by a projectile off the coast of Oman following the passage of several tankers that used a route backed by...

Chennai: The death toll following an ammonia gas leak at a private seafood processing facility in Tiruvallur has risen to 11, even as a high-level probe committee flagged critical safety lapses, including the failure of the emergency alarm system, and raised concerns over the cramped...

New Delhi: In a major relief to industrial and commercial LPG consumers, the government Thursday removed all sectoral restrictions on the supply of non-domestic packed LPG and restored supplies to the levels prevailing before the West Asia crisis. The restrictions have been lifted due to...

New Delhi: Passport has never been a citizenship proof and no new decision was taken on the document by the Modi government in the last 12 years, government sources said Thursday. On media reports on the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) clarifying that a passport...

Kolkata: The toll in the Taratala warehouse collapse in south Kolkata rose to 11 Thursday as rescue teams, aided by the Army's advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) system, continued intensive search operations through the rubble for over 24 hours after the incident, officials said. Five more...

New Delhi: Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan administered the oath and secrecy to ten newly elected members of the Upper House Thursday. The newly elected MPs, who took the oath as Rajya Sabha members, included four from Andhra Pradesh -- three of whom...

New Delhi: Nearly five decades after the Emergency was declared in India, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has incorporated the subject into a Class IX Social Science textbook for the first time. The newly introduced textbook, 'Understanding Society: India and Beyond',...