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New Delhi: The national capital recorded air quality in the "very poor" category Sunday with an overall Air Quality Index reading of 390, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The meteorological department has issued an orange alert of very dense fog for Monday,...

New Delhi: The victim of the 2017 Unnao rape case, along with her family, and activists, held a protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar Sunday against the suspension of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger's life sentence by the Delhi High Court in the case. Demanding...

Dhaka: Tarique Rahman, the son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, returned to the country recently after 17 years in exile and is now expected to emerge as a crucial player in the all-important electoral battle slated for early next year. Rahman, who opted...

Dhaka: An internal rift overnight gripped the student-led National Citizen Party (NCP) over its proposed alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami ahead of the Bangladesh election in February, with 30 of its leaders issuing a joint letter opposing the plan and two ranking members announcing their resignation....

New Delhi: At the 140th Foundation Day event at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi Sunday, Shashi Tharoor supported the views of his party colleague Digvijaya Singh, saying the organisation should be strengthened. Tharoor was seated next to Digivijaya Singh during the function at the...

New Delhi: Supreme Court is slated to hear Monday a plea by the CBI challenging the Delhi High Court order suspending the life sentence of expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case. According to the cause list, a three-judge vacation bench...

Yangon: Voters went to the polls Sunday for the initial phase of Myanmar's first general election in five years, held under the supervision of its military government while a civil war rages throughout much of the country. Final results will not be known until after...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's newspaper Editors Council has accused a “section of the interim government” of allowing the recent spate of violence in the country after the death of Inqilab Mancha leader Sharif Osman Hadi. Hadi was shot in the head December 12 during an election campaign...

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Minister Jairam Ramesh has written to Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav, raising serious concerns over the recent redefinition of the Aravalli Hills, which restricts their classification to landforms with an elevation of 100...

New Delhi/Bengaluru: Leaders of the ruling Congress in Karnataka Saturday reacted sharply to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's criticism of "bulldozer action" to evict minorities from a locality in Bengaluru, insisting they cannot allow squatters to set up slums in the city and asked the...