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New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP National President Nitin Nabin are set to lead a packed schedule of rallies and roadshows across West Bengal Saturday, as the state’s election campaign intensifies ahead of the second phase of polling...

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate Saturday raided several locations in poll-bound West Bengal as part of its money laundering investigation into an alleged PDS scam, officials said. Searches were underway at about nine premises of suppliers and exporters in Kolkata, Burdwan, and Habra, including Niranjan Chandra...

Mau (UP): Five people returning from a wedding in Jharkhand were killed when their SUV collided head-on with a trailer truck here, police said Saturday. Among the dead were three members of a family. The accident took place in the Doharighat police station area on...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to address election rallies in West Bengal Saturday, with public meetings scheduled in Kolkata and Serampore after an earlier setback when permissions for the events were initially denied. The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha's...

New Delhi: US Department of Commerce has announced preliminary anti-dumping duty on imports of solar cells and panels from India. "...consistent with our practice, we preliminarily assign the dumping margin alleged in the Petition, which is 123.04 per cent, to all other producers and exporters...

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Friday termed the resignation of seven of its Rajya Sabha MPs a "betrayal of Punjab", accusing the BJP of engineering the split, and using fear of central agencies to poach its leaders. The party said the people of Punjab...

Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India Friday said it has cancelled the banking licence issued to Paytm Payments Bank. The licence was cancelled as the "affairs of the bank were conducted in a manner detrimental to the interest of the bank and its depositors", the RBI...

Islamabad: Iran's top diplomat was heading to Pakistan Friday, where officials have been trying to get the United States and Iran to convene for a second round of ceasefire negotiations. Iran's state-run news agency confirmed Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was on his way to Pakistan...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday asked the appellate tribunals to give out-of-turn hearing to those who make out a case of urgent hearing against deletion from voter lists after the special intensive revision of rolls in West Bengal. At the start of the hearing,...

Imphal: Three persons were killed in two separate incidents of firing between armed groups of rival tribal communities in Manipur's Ukhrul district Friday morning, officials said. In one incident near Mullam village, security forces recovered two bodies around 11.25 am, they said. The deceased, identified...