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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...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Wednesday said the government has declared Pakistan-based Shahzad Bhatti Network (SBN) a terrorist organisation under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Shah said the action came pursuing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of zero tolerance against terror. "The group...

New Delhi: Union Cabinet Wednesday approved a proposal to raise the wage ceiling for mandatory coverage under the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) to Rs 25,000 per month from Rs 15,000. The wage ceiling revision is taking place after 12 years. The decision is expected...

New Delhi: The Opposition Wednesday alleged that the government has bowed before "American imperialism" by introducing the MDR framework for UPI and took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he has redefined NOTA as "Narendra's Ongoing Trump Appeasement". The move would push up...

New Delhi: Finance Ministry Wednesday debunked claims which suggested the MDR change in the UPI ecosystem is due to foreign influence, stressing that India’s digital payments decisions are made independently. Since its launch in 2016, UPI has grown into the world’s largest real-time interoperable payment...

Gurugram: Biker Shivani Chauhan, alias Sia, the victim of an on-camera hit-and-run in Gurugram, said the arrest of accused Kalyan Bainsla was not enough and demanded strict action against him and others who were allegedly present in the car at the time of the incident,...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to reconstitute a five-member high-powered committee set up to examine alleged police excesses against student protesters in Delhi, underlining that allegations against the panel were conjectures and preconceived notions. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya...